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Seemingly inspired by games like Escape from Tarkov, the upcoming Marauders is a tactical first-person shooter set in an alternate history version of the early 1990s where World War 1 had not only never ended, but somehow also spread to the stars. As for the actual gameplay, Marauders is all about exploring hostile ships and wrecks, looting anything that isn't nailed down particularly well, and then escaping before other players or teams can mess with you or your haul.
You can get a bit of a sneak peek at what all of this looks like in action through the freshly posted trailer. Have a gander:
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[Update]: After two years in Early Access, Songs of Conquest will be launching on May 20th, 2024!
These past few weeks have been pretty good for fans of the classic Might and Magic games! Not only has Ubisoft announced they have a Might & Magic AAA project in development, but the heavily Heroes of Might and Magic inspired Songs of Conquest has now also been pinned for a May 10th, 2022 Steam Early Access launch.
As you might imagine given its inspiration, Songs of Conquest is a turn-based strategy that's all about exploring a giant map in search of treasure and resources, upgrading your home base in order to unlock new units and abilities, and then using said armies to engage in large-scale battles against your opponents. It's pretty much Heroes of Might and Magic 3 at its core, just with a couple of fun little twists to spice things up.
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The upcoming Lone Fungus is a colorful Metroidvania action-adventure starring a surprisingly acrobatic mushroom on a mission to save the world. While the choice of protagonist is certainly a bit odd, the actual gameplay should be quite familiar as it's all about exploring a huge and interconnected world, unlocking new abilities and items that let you fight more effectively or venture into previously inaccessible areas, and naturally, beating up hordes of cutesy enemies along the way.
Since a Metroidvania game lives and dies by the quality of its gameplay, allow me to share with you one of the recent trailers. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what Lone Fungus is all about. Have a peek:
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As the name might suggest, The Planet Crafter is a large-scale survival game that will task you with terraforming an entire planet on your own! In order to do so you'll need to gather resources and craft advanced tools, build complex machines to create a breathable atmosphere and drinkable water, deal with all sorts of natural disasters like meteor showers, and ideally manage all of that without starving to death on a hostile planet.
If you're curious what all of this looks like in action, as well as how much you can truly change the planet itself, you'll find your answers in the brief trailer below. Have a peek:
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[Update]: After exactly a year in Early Access, Sons Of The Forest's Version 1.0 has now been unleashed!
If you were looking forward to chopping down trees and mutant cannibals in equal measure once Sons of the Forest arrives this May 20th, you might want to start making other plans. According to the freshly posted developer update, the sequel to the 2018 survival-horror The Forest has now been pushed back a couple of months.
"Over these past few weeks, we have realized that our May 2022 release date for Sons Of The Forest was overly ambitious," explains the brief announcement. "To be able to deliver our vision of the next step in survival games, we’ve decided to move our release date to October 2022."
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Freedom Planet 2 was originally supposed to release at some point in 2018, but sadly it ran into quite a few hiccups during development and so it had to be delayed time and time and time again. Many years have gone by since then, but I'm happy to say that the long wait will soon be over as Freedom Planet 2 has finally received an actual release date - September 13th, 2022!
"We have previously stated that we would have a spring release date - however, we had to push this back due to a few unforeseen circumstances," explains the brief update. "We are eager to launch on multiple platforms at the same time alongside the PC version, and these additional ports will need more time to go through testing and certification than we anticipated."
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[Update]: My review for The Iron Oath is now out, and in short it's a promising turn-based strategy, though still quite rough around the edges.
As is tradition for the genre, the upcoming The Iron Oath is all about building up your team, exploring the world in search of treasure and secrets, and naturally, resolving most of your disagreements through good ol' fashioned turn-based combat. However, instead of having just one team you need to take care of, The Iron Oath will task you with managing and financing an entire mercenary guild through the ages!
As time goes by your mercenaries will age, retire or simply become incapacitated, so sticking to just one winning strategy won't get you very far. Instead you'll need to cultivate a diverse roster of mercenaries, foster political relationships with the factions you believe most likely to stand the test of time, and ideally pick and choose contracts that won't make you the least popular person around.
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[Update]: Turbo Overkill's Version 1.0 has now arrived, and as I've detailed throughout my review, it's a ton of fun!
I hope you're not tired of the recent resurgence of retro FPS games, because there is a brand new one coming in the near future - Turbo Overkill. As befitting its name, Turbo Overkill is a fast-paced and cyberpunk themed FPS where your character is apparently so unhinged he has straight up replaced one of his legs with a chainsaw!
What this nonsense looks like in actual gameplay, as well as what sort of 'boomer shooter' Turbo Overkill even is, that you can find out through the freshly posted trailer. Have a peek:
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[Update]: Salt and Sacrifice has now landed onto PC and PlayStation, and unsurprisingly, it's a fun yet flawed experience.
Salt and Sacrifice is the upcoming sequel to the excellent 2D Souls-like RPG Salt and Sacrifice. While the details are still few and far between, Salt and Sacrifice will bring with it a greater focus on mobility through the usage of tools like the grappling hook, an improved inventory that will make it easier to utilize different items in combat, as well as more elaborate PvP and co-op options to help make everything just a bit more exciting.
What this looks like in actual gameplay, and especially all of that about the PvP side of things, that you can check out through the recently posted trailer. Have a peek:
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[Update]: Terraria and Core Keeper are doing a small crossover to celebrate Terraria's upcoming Labor of Love update.
Freshly released into Steam Early Access, Core Keeper is a mining, crafting and exploration based sandbox game. As you might imagine from that description alone, most of your time in Core Keeper will be spend mining for resources and treasure, fighting monsters and exploring a procedurally generated underground world, as well as crafting new equipment and building up your base to help make yourself feel at home in the depths.
All of this can be done in either singleplayer or multiplayer with up to 7 other people, with the latter definitely being the more entertaining option. What Core Keeper looks like in action, however, that you can get a pretty good idea of through the recently posted trailer. Have a gander: