Author: Jonathan Bolding
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Overwatch harnesses the dread power of K-Pop
In a moment that is decidedly inevitable, Overwatch will undertake a collaboration with a K-Pop group that includes a new game mode and themed in-game items, including Legendary hero skins. The k-pop group Le Sserafim, formed in 2022, will be debuting a single called Perfect Night on October 26, and will come to Overwatch shortly…
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Terrifyingly fun roguelike World of Horror launches with an absolute banger of a trailer
Delightfully strange and just generally delightful game World of Horror has finally released, leaving early access development on October 19 2023. It celebrates with a deliciously good trailer freshly scored by composer Joseph Bailey that shows off what’s best about World of Horror: scared teenagers trying to save the day, moody scenes of dark landscapes,…
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This combo of Surviving Mars with factory building has you automate and expand a lunar colony in the wake of disaster
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An upcoming management-automation-strategy hybrid called The Crust is looking pretty promising, a concept that looks and plays like it’ll be a combination of Surviving Mars and a Factory-building game. You’re put in charge of an automated building and mining system on the lunar surface shortly before a disaster that leaves you as one of the…
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Here’s a remarkably open-ended sci-fi RPG inspired by the classics
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The indie RPG scene is basically solely responsible for keeping the torch of the old-school isometric RPG burning. The spirit of that those old games inherited from tabletop roleplaying—do whatever, be someone weird, have your choices truly matter, nobody’s immortal—aren’t very feasible to implement in the fully voiced, richly animated world of modern AAA RPGs.…
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Manage your inventory to PvP glory in the demo of autobattler Backpack Battles
My love of games where you play inventory Tetris is well-known. I do not make a secret of this. I like to snugly fit a health potion in beside my spare dagger and weird stuff I’ve picked up off the latest shopkeep or slain demon. I have also played perhaps too much Dota, and therefore…
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Build a big tower, get punished by God, in incremental clicker Microcivilization
An upcoming incremental strategy clicker is taking on the civilization-building theme in an interesting way: Knowing that you’re going to collapse, eventually, before starting over. Indie developer Ondrej Homola’s game Microcivilization has you ascending through tiers of difficulty by building progressively larger civilizations before you either choose to—or are forced to—ascend, gaining currency to spend…
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Monster Train dev cuts all the monetization from its tactical battler, Inkbound
[ad_1] The developers of Indie RPG Inkbound will remove all the in-game monetization from it at the end of this month. Starting October 27, 2023, there will no longer be any battle pass or cosmetic shop inside Inkbound. They were already quite unobtrusive, but now they’re going away entirely. “We tried to make these as…
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I’m kinda liking this badly translated action roguelike where you can wield an extra gun with your butt
[ad_1] One weird demo out of the whole Steam Next Fest has charmed me, and for reasons I rarely get charmed by: It’s delightfully janky, strange, referential, and crude. Apocalypse Party is certainly chasing the roguelike action trend, but it’s so off-beat and willing to let you craft absurd combos to slaughter fantasy zombies and…
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Next city-builder from the creator of The Settlers is looking pretty good in a new demo
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[ad_1] City-building game Pioneers of Pagonia has a demo out as part of this October’s Steam Next Fest, and it’s looking pretty dang good. The fantasy strategy city-builder will release into early access on December 13, 2023, but the demo’s showing off some real interesting bones and very understandable, smooth mechanics for growing your city.…