Crowns and Pawns is an upcoming hand-painted puzzle adventure inspired by Broken Sword
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[Update]: Crowns and Pawns has now arrived, and with quite a few tricky puzzles in tow!
Inspired by classics like Broken Sword and Syberia, Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is an upcoming point & click puzzle-adventure. As you might imagine from that description alone, Crowns and Pawns will task you with solving a wide variety of tricky puzzles as you attempt to unravel a grand mystery, all the while letting you chat up a variety of strange and interesting characters.
In an interesting little twist, Crowns and Pawns will also give you the ability to customize your character from head to toe. However, instead of this simply being cosmetic, the different appearances will factor into the puzzles and how people respond to you. A pretty neat idea, I must admit!
Haunted hide-and-seek game Midnight Ghost Hunt has now landed into Early Access
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Midnight Ghost Hunt is a 4v4 hide-and-seek game where a team of hunters must scour a variety of haunted locations in order to destroy all of the ghosts. Should they fail and the clock strikes midnight, the tables will turn and the hunters will need to survive the onslaught of vengeful spirits while waiting for rescue to arrive.
In order to make things interesting the ghosts are able to not only use traps and misdirection to mess with the hunters, but also posses objects in order to hide in plain sight. The hunters on the other hand have a technological advantage, and with it a variety of handy gadgets they can use to sniff out the ghosts wherever they might be hiding.
Generation Zero's incoming Base Assault update will start the big push against the robots
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[Update #2]: Generation Zero studio is now working on a challenging open world action-roguelite - Ravenbound.
[Update]: The patch has now gone live, and so far it seems to be enjoying quite a positive reception.
In celebration of its third anniversary, the robot-infested Generation Zero will soon be getting a chunky free update. While the details are still few and far between, the Base Assault update will see the robots go on the offensive and fortify a whole bunch of new locations, all of which you'll have to sort out in a series of sieges.
As such, you can expect the update to add new Base Assault missions and a variety of side missions, as well as bring in some extra toys to play around with and make all of that easier. What this looks like in action, that you can find out through the freshly posted trailer:
Dead Cells' free update has added The Bank as a blinged-out new biome to ransack
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[Update]: Dead Cells' "Enter the Panchaku" update has added pan-based nunchucks and reworked legendary items.
It has only been a little while since The Queen & the Sea DLC brought in a bunch of new content to explore, and already the Dead Cells team has returned with more. Best of all, this time around everything is entirely free!
So thanks to the freshly released Break the Bank update you can expect to see the titular Bank as a blinged-out new biome, 3 new gold-based enemies to smash, 3 new gold-based weapons to do the smashing with, and naturally, 3 new gold-based mutations to help round everything out. What all this gold looks like in action, however, that you can find out through the recent trailer. Have a peek:
Vampire Survivors will be getting a new engine with greatly enhanced performance this Summer
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[Update]: Vampire Survivors devs have revealed their plans for 2023, including new content and the long-awaited engine upgrade.
While Vampire Survivors is an awesome game and one that has occupied far more of my time than I'm willing to admit, it sadly has a pretty serious issue with performance. Once you get a whole bunch of upgrades and start shooting a myriad of projectiles in every single direction, all the while the enemies spawn so quickly the screen can barely hold them all, the gameplay can very quickly devolve into a slideshow.
So in an effort to fix this glaring issue, Vampire Survivors will be getting ported over to a brand new engine this Summer. The exact details have not been revealed just yet, but according to the recent roadmap update things are already looking remarkably good.
Hyper Light Breaker is a freshly announced roguelite action-adventure from the Hyper Light Drifter team
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Set within the same world as Hyper Light Drifter, the freshly unveiled Hyper Light Breaker is a fully 3D action-adventure with roguelite elements sprinkled in for flavor. No exact release date has been given just yet, but you can expect Hyper Light Breaker to land into Steam Early Access in Spring 2023.
As for the actual gameplay, Hyper Light Breaker will have you explore a vast and ever-changing world with an assortment of movement abilities like wall-dashing and gliding, beat up hordes of monsters and giant bosses in either singleplayer or co-op, and in order to cool off between missions, also help a lonely settlement flourish in order to unlock upgrades and discover more of the world's story. Fairly standard roguelite stuff, but considering the team's previous work on Hyper Light Drifter, I have a feeling Hyper Light Breaker will end up being a blast to play regardless!
Dark fantasy action-RPG Weird West has now arrived alongside a bunch of peculiar stories
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To put it quite simply, Weird West is a dark fantasy action-RPG that combines the usual stories about cowboys and gunslingers with fantastical creatures and otherworldly events. All of this is told through the perspectives of five bounty hunters, each of which is stuck dealing with a series of peculiar challenges ranging from crazed cultists to talking pigmen. Needless to say, the Weird West title is well deserved.
If you're curious just how all of this madness translates into actual gameplay, as well as whether Weird West might be something you'd like to dive into, allow me to share with you a recent and rather lengthy developer preview. You don't need to watch all of it, obviously, but even a couple of minutes should be more than enough to give you a solid impression of what Weird West is working with. Have a gander: