Darktide's Patch #9 has brought in a new batch of free cosmetics and the ability to go shirtless!
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[Update #2]: Darktide's Update 1.1.10 is aiming to add Cross-play and an elite-focused modifier for missions.
[Update]: Darktide's Rejects Unite patch has now arrived, and unfortunately it has done so alongside some serious technical issues.
In order to help tide us over until the seemingly massive update lands at some point later this month, the Darktide team has now released Patch #9. The highlights include a new batch of free cosmetics, a rebalance of enemy spawns in Heresy and Damnation difficulties, tweaks for the Plague Ogryn and Beast of Nurgle bosses, as well as a bunch of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.
First and foremost, in order to unlock the new cosmetics you'll need to complete a brand new set of Penances (achievements). These are thankfully much easier to unlock than the previous batch and can be earned by simply playing the game in a team-orientated fashion. Best of all, if you don't really care about all of this cosmetic nonsense, you can also remove your shirt and go into battle with only faith as your armor!
[Update]: Whelp! It looks like the bare-chested look was a bug, and one that the newest hotfix has unfortunately rectified.
Stranded: Alien Dawn is a freshly launched, RimWorld inspired colony sim from the Tropico and Surviving Mars studio
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After spending about a year in Early Access, Haemimont Games' survival-focused colony sim Stranded: Alien Dawn has now been unleashed. As you might imagine from the name alone, Stranded: Alien Dawn will task you with caring for a wide array of colonists, creating and evolving your base to deal with both environmental threats and the aggressive fauna, researching new technology to make life easier, and with a bit of luck, carving out a nice little slice of happiness on a hostile world.
If you've played RimWorld, chances are Stranded: Alien Dawn should feel quite familiar as the two games share a lot of the same DNA. Stranded: Alien Dawn is a fair bit simpler and less reliant on outside knowledge to really get into the swing of things, though obviously it pays for that by having less overall complexity.
Deep Rock Galactic's Season 4 will bring with it a scorpion-like enemy, and an arcade cabinet
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[Update]: Deep Rock Galactic's Season 4 has arrived with new enemies, boss, jet boots, and an arcade cabinet.
In order to get everyone excited for the upcoming Season 4, Ghost Ship Games have started releasing small teasers showing off some of the new additions. While they may be brief and lacking in detail, the stuff shown so far does look quite intriguing!
The first teaser is a fairly lighthearted one as it shows the Space Rig getting an arcade machine! What exactly we'll be able to play on it, I have no idea, but I can only imagine it has something to do with copious amounts of drinking and/or mining.
Don't Starve is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a massive bugfixing and quality-of-life focused update
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While Klei Entertainment's focus is mostly on Don't Starve Together these days, they still decided to give Don't Starve a nice little treat for its tenth anniversary. That said, 'little' might not be the best description for it as the freshly released and quality-of-life focused update is absolutely massive!
The highlights include a couple of fancy new items, the ability to utilize materials in chests while crafting, an optional integrated backpack layout, as well as a complete redesign of the Ancient Guardian fight. You can also look forward to more sensible cave world generation, Deerclops attacks that actually match their visual effects, adorable baby water beefalo, and the list goes on for a very, very long time.
Story-focused cooking sim Cook Serve Forever is heading into Early Access on May 8th
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[Update]: Cook, Serve, Forever has unfortunately been delayed, though thankfully only for a week!
To say that the Cook, Serve, Delicious! series is a strange one would be quite an understatement. While it all started with a humble cooking and restaurant management sim, somehow Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 ended up being a road trip across war-torn America where you'd get frequently assaulted by rival cooking gangs!
After experimenting with these types ideas for quite a few years, developer Vertigo has now finally decided to give a proper story-based game a try. As such, the upcoming Cook Serve Forever is not only going to feature plenty of cooking action, but also a lengthy storyline that will offer dozens of hours of gameplay, a variety of fully voiced and realized characters to annoy, as well as a bunch of side quests to mess around with.
Frozenbyte's stylish and co-op focused puzzle-platformer series Trine is getting a fifth entry
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[Update #2]: Trine 5 has now added crossplay between all the different versions.
[Update]: I have some good news to share! Trine 5 will be launching onto PC and consoles on August 31st, 2023!
After taking a few years off to work on a couple of different genres through Boreal Blade and Starbase, Frozenbyte have announced that their next game will be a new installment of their classic Trine series. Needless to say, the recently revealed Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy is once again going to be a gorgeous 2.5D puzzle-platformer with a heavy emphasis on co-op and all of the chaos that brings with it.
In order to help it stand out from its predecessors, Trine 5 will bring with it a new combat system and tricky boss encounters, a character-specific skill quest system that should add a lot more depth and variety than before, as well as an adaptive difficulty system for both the combat and puzzles. How exactly that last part will work, I'm afraid I have no idea, but if done well I can definitely see the extra challenges adding a fair bit of replay value.
After eight years of updates, city-building sim Cities: Skylines will be getting an ambitious sequel in 2023
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[Update]: Cities: Skylines 2 will be launching on October 24th alongside a bunch of technological improvements, new features and quality-of-life updates.
After a seemingly endless tide of expansions and accompanying free updates, it looks like the Cities: Skylines team is finally getting ready to move onto something new. They won't be going all that far, however, as their next game will be a bigger, bolder and more technologically advanced Cities: Skylines sequel!
According to the brief announcement, Cities: Skylines 2 will come with fully realized transport and economy systems, a wide variety of construction and customization options to mess around with, as well as a focus on creating an open-ended sandbox for players to build whatever city they want in. Most importantly of all, Cities: Skylines 2 will be following in its predecessor's footsteps and bringing in a suite of modding tools for players to add all-important things like Thomas the Tank Engine!