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If you're up for an oldschool RPG, and you aren't afraid of reading through copious amounts of text, you might want to check out the freshly released Roadwarden. To put it simply, it's primarily a text-based RPG with some stylish pixel art illustrations that will task you with exploring a massive fantasy world full of mysteries to uncover, catastrophes to thwart and characters to annoy with endless questions.
Along the way you'll need to make hard choices that will greatly influence the course of the game, antagonize or befriend the many creatures and people that will cross your path, as well as customize and take care of every aspect of your own character - even stuff that is usually assumed like keeping yourself nice and clean. After all, if you appear in the middle of a village smelling like you've just taken a swim through a rancid sewer, the townsfolk might not be all that eager to let you in their homes!
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At this point I have absolutely no idea what to expect from Bithell Games. Between an emotional puzzle-platformer starring a bunch of rectangles and a real-time tactics game featuring none other than John Wick, Bithell Games have shown that they are willing to experiment with pretty much any interesting idea. As such, it may or may not come as much of a surprise to hear that Bithell Games are now working on an investigation-focused visual novel set in the Tron universe!
The freshly announced Tron: Identity will put in you in the shoes of a detective program called Query as it attempts to uncover not only who has stolen information from the grand repository, but also what exactly has even been stolen! Along the way you'll need to solve a variety of puzzles, make important choices that will shape the outcome of the whole story, as well as interact with a variety of hand-drawn characters and environments.
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[Update #2]: There Is No Light's Enhanced Edition has added a whole bunch of new abilities and rebalanced most enemies.
[Update]: I've now released a detailed review for There Is No Light, and I'm pleased to say it's quite good!
Set in a world where humanity has fled the surface following a global catastrophe, There Is No Light is a dark and brutal, yet still remarkably stylish action-RPG. It brings with it a lengthy and non-linear storyline with plenty of meaningful choices to make, a chunky skill tree to help you build your preferred playstyle, and naturally, a whole host of deranged enemies and eldritch abominations to keep smashing your head against.
Since There Is No Light is heavily focused on its combat and atmosphere, allow me to stop babbling and instead share with you the recently posted preview. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what There Is No Light is trying to do. Have a gander:
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[Update #2]: Deep Rock Galactic's Season 3 - Plaguefall update has added fancy new grenades, enemy variants and mission objectives.
[Update]: The Oktoberfest 2022 update has now arrived with silly new hats and a double XP event.
Following an extremely cryptic teaser, the Deep Rock Galactic team has finally now announced that the chunky Season 3 update will be coming on November 3rd for PC. Consoles will also be getting the update, though at a small delay as it'll be launching on November 17th.
The full list of changes has not been announced just yet, though you can expect Season 3 to bring with it a variety of new toys and enemies to mess around with, as well as a brand new Battle Pass filled with fancy beards and other cosmetics to collect. Much like the previous seasons, the entire Battle Pass will be free of charge! So as long as you stick around for a while and smash hordes upon hordes of bugs, you'll be able to get everything you want. And even if you don't, it'll all be released into the in-game loot pool after the season is completely done!
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If you're a fan of exploring highly intricate levels and taking out your enemies through the use of stealth and subterfuge, you might want to keep an eye on the freshly released Gloomwood. To put it quite simply, much the like Thief series from which it takes a great deal of inspiration, Gloomwood is an immersive stealth-horror FPS that's all about creatively solving problems.
What this looks like in action, as well as what sort of nonsense you can get up to, that you can get a pretty good idea of through the trailer below. Have a gander:
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Mewgenics was originally announced nearly a decade ago, but due to a series of unfortunate circumstances its development was put on indefinite hiatus. Things started looking up for Mewgenics back in 2018 as Edmund McMillen announced that he's "currently prototyping some stuff for it," though once again new information was more or less nonexistent.
While that hasn't changed much in the past four years, I'm happy to say Mewgenics is actually happening this time around as both Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel have been sharing snippets of their work over at Twitter! One of the latest tweets is particularly interesting here as it clearly showcases that Mewgenics is going to be a party-focused and turn-based roguelike.
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[Update]: The Wandering Village has now stomped its way into Early Access, and so far it's been enjoying mostly positive reviews from the players.
Instead of settling somewhere nice and peaceful, your budding civilization in The Wandering Village has decided that the most sensible course of action is to live out their days on the back of an absolutely gigantic dinosaur! In order to have them thrive in this bizarre environment you'll have to grow and gather an assortment of resources, send out expeditions into the wilderness in search of long-lost technology, handle unique threats that arise from the dinosaur stomping its way through various biomes, and naturally, figure out how to coexist with the massive beast before things turn truly sour.
What all of this madness looks like in action, as well as what the story is even all about, that you can get a bit of a sneak peek at through the launch trailer below. Have a gander:
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Amber City, much like its predecessor Flood of Light, is a hand-drawn adventure that will task you with using lights to solve puzzles in order to restore a slumbering city back to its former glory. A simple enough premise, but things do get complicated fairly quickly as not only is there time travel involved, but also potentially hostile robots along with different colors of light that, unsurprisingly, each do their own unique thing.
Since trying to explain a puzzle game through words alone is a bit of a pointless venture, allow me to share with you the recently posted launch trailer. It's not exactly lengthy, but it should clue you in quite quickly about what kind of gameplay style Amber City is going for. Have a gander:
Rivals of Aether's dungeon crawler spin-off Dungeons of Aether has been pushed back to February 2023
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Set in the same universe as the platform fighter Rivals of Aether and its upcoming sequel, Dungeons of Aether is a roguelite dungeon crawler that will have you explore the world and battle hordes of enemies as one of four unique characters. Each one brings with them their own special skills, playstyle and storyline, so messing around with all of them is going to be highly encouraged, and hopefully highly entertaining as well.
If all of that sounds like it's right up your alley, I'm afraid I have a bit of bad news to deliver. Instead of launching this October 25th as previously announced, Dungeons of Aether has now been pushed back to February 28th, 2023.
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Instead of simply trying to build a single godlike character over the course of an adventure, the upcoming Sandwalkers will have you guide an entire caravan of misfits through an ever-changing roguelike world. Along the way you'll have to survive all sorts of hostile weather, tame bizarre creatures and seek unlikely allies to bolster your forces, and naturally, square off against hordes of enemies in turn-based battles.
When thing inevitably goes awry and your entire caravan ends up on the wrong side of some rampaging abomination, worry not as nobody expected your humble crew to accomplish everything all on their own. Their knowledge will be preserved and passed on to future caravans which will then be able to push deeper and deeper into the wastelands in an effort to a repair the broken climate and bring an end to centuries of wandering.