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Mecha BREAK
In the wake of the Catastrophe, Earth faces imminent destruction as a carbon-silicon mineral called Corite rapidly consumes habitable spaces, threatening to engulf the planet within 30 years. This devastation is centered around the heavily polluted Marcens Zones, pushing humanity toward extinction. Players assume the role of a pilot of a third-generation BREAK Striker, navigating a perilous world offered a chance by a secretive organization known as S.H.A.D.O.W. The game features three distinct combat modes: 3v3 Deathmatch, 6v6 Hero Shooter, and PvPvE Extraction Shooter. Players can choose from a variety of mechs, utilizing assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support capabilities to engage in intense battles across a 200-square-kilometer combat area.
The core gameplay involves infiltrating the largest Corite resource zone, the Mashmak Islands, either solo or with a tactical squad of three mechs. Objectives include reconnaissance missions under fire, acquiring special materials for weapon upgrades, and surviving against hostile garrison forces and the spread of Corite pulse storms. Players can further personalize their mechs and pilots with a wide selection of colors, decals, and patterns, and unlock a roster of characters with rich backstories to join forces with in the fight for humanity's survival.
Noobs Are Coming
Noobs Are Coming is a roguelike game where the player takes on the role of the final boss. The game features a large roster of unique Dungeon Bosses to choose from, offering quick and addictive runs lasting under 30 minutes. Players can forge their own builds by equipping Boss Patterns, summoning Minions, utilizing physics-based Chain Spikeballs, and kicking Wrecking Balls with their Minions or co-op players. A variety of weapons are available, alongside the ability to grow Plant Minions using a Watering Can or Cloud Spell. Players can also transform enemies into Sheep or Golden Statues, mine Ore, and deploy Turrets, creating a dynamic and emergent gameplay experience.
The game emphasizes wild theorycrafting and pushing stats to absurd levels, leading to chaotic screen explosions. A "Cheater Item" allows players to stack unique items multiple times. Players can control a Giant Worm Boss, Spider Queen, or Seductive Succubus, and engage in wave-based combat against increasingly intense raids of "Noobs." Leveling up and purchasing upgrades is crucial for survival, alongside unlocking a vast amount of content and challenges. The game boasts a cute and badass art style, a banger OST, and a parody RPG universe with meta humor and funny cutscenes, including a Twitch Streamer Mode that incorporates chat usernames and messages. It supports singleplayer and multiplayer, with options for 4-player local co-op and Steam Remote Play Together.
PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY
The game centers around the player's role as the God of the Patapons, leading them on a grand adventure to Earthend. Gameplay utilizes the rhythmic beating of four Mystical Drums – Pata(←), Pon(→), Don(↓), and Chaka(↑) – to command these cute and mysterious eyeball-like creatures. Each Patapon possesses unique characteristics and classes, such as the Hatapon who leads with a flag, the Tatepon who defends with a shield, and the Yumipon who attacks with arrows. Strategic combat is achieved through utilizing the correct battle commands in the appropriate situations, alongside the creation of a well-rounded army composed of Patapons with diverse classes.
The game combines simple controls with strategic elements, offering a challenge for players. Patapons can be customized and enhanced through the use of 400 weapons and equipment gathered from stages and minigames. New support features have been added, including adjustable difficulty settings (Easy, Normal, Hard) and the option to keep the drum icon displayed at all times. This remastered set combines the original PATAPON and PATAPON 2, offering a complete experience for players.
Mycopunk
The game centers around a group of robot rejects, known as the New Atlas Hazard Crew, who are employed by the SAXON corporation for one final opportunity at success and avoiding being scrapped. This squad is tasked with investigating a planet-wide fungal catastrophe through a series of dangerous missions. Players will engage in combat against hordes of enemies that are corrupting and weaponizing the planet's technology. The crew utilizes an arsenal of advanced futuristic weaponry and power tools, which can be upgraded using a unique grid-based system to create customized, sci-fi super-weapons.
Between missions, the team relaxes in an orbital dropship, interacting with the insectoid SAXON veteran Roachard Cox and engaging in various activities. The combination of upgraded abilities and customized weapons allows for strategic co-op mayhem, or simply shooting each other. Players will observe visible results within one to two missions, and the crew's collective strength surpasses the sum of their individual parts.
Every Day We Fight
Players control a group of three civilians caught in an endless time loop triggered by an alien invasion. The Rifters, an alien race, have frozen the world, seeking to harvest resources, and the players must fight to stop them. Each loop presents a series of mission types, including shutting down harvesters, defusing bombs, and eliminating occupying troops. Players explore multiple districts of a wartorn city, seeking out weapons, equipment, and hidden resources, which are available from the start of each subsequent loop. They utilize a variety of weapons, modifications, and gear to improve their combat effectiveness, and engage in challenging boss battles against Rifter leaders, whose defeat advances the time loop.
Tactical gameplay is central to the experience, requiring players to carefully position their fighters, utilize their unique reflex actions, and study enemy movements to gain an advantage. Accurate aiming is crucial, with hit chances determined by positioning, aim, and reaction time, considering ballistics and enemy behavior. Players can choose from a range of weapons, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and must adapt their strategies to overcome increasingly difficult challenges. Death is a constant threat, resetting the time loop while retaining acquired experience and skills, forcing players to continually refine their approach and build upon their successes, ultimately striving to break the cycle and save the world.
Everdeep Aurora
The game centers around Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother vanished, triggering an urgent descent into the depths following an ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower. This narrative exploration and platform game draws inspiration from the aesthetics and gameplay of classic 16-bit titles, offering a vibrant and dynamic world to explore. Players will navigate a subterranean realm populated by tormented creatures with an uncertain past, discovering secret caverns and sprawling underground dwellings. As Shell ventures deeper, her choices will shape her journey through the depths, influencing her path and the unfolding story.
The game features atmospheric pixel art and an evocative soundtrack, with shifting palettes and musical themes reflecting the diverse locations encountered. Players will encounter characters with unique personalities and, occasionally, optional side quests. The goal is to uncover the secrets hidden within the Everdeep, a world shaped by the aftermath of the meteor shower and the mysteries surrounding its inhabitants.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 reunites the legendary franchise with a refreshed experience featuring more skaters, new parks, and gnarlier tricks. Players can drop in to both new and returning parks, authentically remade in 4K resolution with streamlined goals and the iconic 2-minute format. The game includes expanded Create-A-Skater and Create-A-Park modes, allowing players to create custom goals to share with friends for the first time. The core gameplay retains the smooth handling and simple-to-learn controls from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, ensuring a familiar and accessible experience for all skill levels.
Multiplayer functionality is a key component, supporting up to 8 skaters in new and returning game modes. A New Game+ mode provides increased challenge, and the game features enhanced goals. Players can create custom goals to share with friends, and the entire experience is enhanced by eardrum-shattering music.
Brickadia
Brickadia offers a next-generation sandbox experience centered around real-time multiplayer creativity and dynamic building. Players can collaboratively construct massive worlds, intricate physics contraptions, and entirely new game modes with friends, utilizing intuitive tools for building towering skyscrapers, vehicles, islands, spaceships, and cityscapes. The game's powerful tools allow for the creation of dynamic builds, incorporating elements like buttons, switches, motors, servos, lights, and seats, all controlled through wire logic and simple circuits using logic gates. Players can design complex puzzles and terrifying traps without needing to write code, focusing on interactive builds and strategic placement of item spawns and ammo pickups.
Furthermore, the game boasts a highly flexible avatar customization system, enabling players to assemble unique avatars with hundreds of varied pieces, including accessories, hats, hairstyles, clothing, and even tails. These personalized avatars can then be used in battles against other players, utilizing a flexible game rules system and a wide range of weaponry. Players can explore and remix experiences created by other players within the in-game Gallery, either solo or with friends, offering an endless array of interactive and creative possibilities.
NIGHT OF THE CONSUMERS
This first-person game plunges the player into the unsettling world of retail horror, beginning with the role of a retail store employee. The gameplay focuses on a frantic, anxiety-inducing experience centered around completing daily tasks within the store. Players must balance responsibilities such as stacking items on empty shelves, cleaning up messes like puke, and constantly addressing the demands of relentless consumers. The game emphasizes a fast-paced environment, requiring quick reactions and strategic thinking to avoid upsetting The Manager.
To manage the overwhelming situation, players can utilize tactics like hurling boxes at consumers to temporarily halt their progress, or retreat to staff-only rooms for brief respite. However, these rooms offer only temporary relief, and the player must continually race against the clock to fulfill their duties. Multiple nights of gameplay are available, alongside unlockable content and hidden secrets for those seeking to fully explore the game's unsettling world.
Dawn Apart
The game centers around establishing and managing a thriving industrial colony on a transformed alien landscape. Players are tasked with harvesting resources, meticulously designing complex production lines, and continuously optimizing efficiency within a fully destructible world. A core element involves utilizing conveyor belts extensively, as every decision directly impacts the colony's future and presents unique challenges. The game emphasizes strategic planning and adaptability, requiring players to balance the needs of a growing population with the demands of a burgeoning factory system.
Survival hinges on defending the colony against persistent environmental threats and enigmatic alien forces. Maintaining sufficient food, shelter, and medical supplies for the constant influx of new settlers is crucial. Successfully navigating this delicate balance between population needs and industrial expansion is paramount to ensuring the colony's long-term viability and success in the face of adversity.
Kaizen: A Factory Story
In 1986, players take on the role of David Sugimoto, a young man from South Bend, Indiana, who secures a job at Matsuzawa Manufacturing in Japan. Initially anticipating a position within the international sales team, he finds himself working in one of Matsuzawa's older factories on the outskirts of Tokyo, designing automated production lines. The game focuses on the challenge of surviving as a rookie within the world of factory automation, requiring players to weld, rivet, cut, and drill to create the most efficient and streamlined designs. Players are tasked with building items within their factories, with the goal of creating the simplest, fastest, and sleekest solutions.
Beyond the core factory automation gameplay, the game includes a unique pachinko-themed solitaire game called Pachi-Sol, offering a change of pace. Players can share their factory designs by exporting animated GIFs, showcasing their solutions to others. Developed by the creators of Opus Magnum, SpaceChem, and Infinifactory, this game presents a masterfully engineered experience centered around intricate factory design and optimization.
Word Play
Word Play is a challenging spelling game focused on creating the largest possible words to earn points and progress through rounds. Players utilize various methods – dragging and dropping letters, clicking tiles, or typing with the keyboard – to spell words. Each word spelled consumes a "play," and the goal is to reach the end of a round without running out of plays. The game incorporates modifiers that alter the core rules, offering a dynamic and unpredictable experience. Players can strategically combine long words, special tiles, and these modified rules to maximize their scores.
Throughout the game, players can acquire upgrades that modify their letter tiles, including special forms like Golden, Diamond, Emerald, and Potion. Gifts add new tiles to the letter bag, while upgrades allow for actions such as destroying, discarding, or duplicating tiles. The game offers multiple difficulty modes – Normal, Hard, Ruthless, and Legendary – alongside a Time Attack mode and accessibility features.
MoteMancer
The game centers around designing intricate automation systems across six overlapping Elemental planes, each procedurally generated and seamlessly traversable in real time. Players utilize a Hex Grid to strategically combine ingredients, structures, and magic to reshape the world through alchemical insight. Unique to each plane are distinct mechanics and puzzle pieces, encouraging experimentation and diverse solutions. Players grow Mana Roots and Mana Leaves to collect power from the sun, and they weave Streamways to move ingredients across their base. Each Element offers unique tools and power systems, and combining elements creates powerful, synergistic effects.
Research is conducted through ingredient infusion, unlocking new tools through experimentation where every combination presents a chance for unexpected discoveries. A key element of the gameplay is managing Entropy, a creeping adversary that tests the resilience of your systems. Players learn spells to Nudge structures, Levitate across terrain, or use Daycaller to control the sun itself, recognizing that magic is integral to the puzzle-solving process.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition transports players to the era of the Crusades, offering an expanded and enhanced experience of the beloved real-time strategy game. The definitive edition faithfully recreates historical desert skirmishes with upgraded visuals, utilizing the original source artwork, music, and returning voice talent. Players can engage in a variety of modes, including two new historical campaigns focusing on conflicts from the First, Second, and Third Crusades, as well as the struggles between Richard the Lionheart and Sultan Saladin. The game expands upon the original with 8 new playable units, specifically Bedouin warriors, 4 fresh AI lords to challenge, and several additional campaigns. Players can experience epic battles such as Nicaea, Heraclea, and the sieges of Jerusalem and Antioch, rebuilt with new visual detail and a fully remastered soundtrack.
The Definitive Edition offers a wealth of content for both veterans and newcomers. Players can delve into skirmish mode with larger map sizes, custom options, and quality of life improvements, alongside a new co-op trail for collaborative gameplay. The game also includes support for custom scenarios through Workshop support. With a full castle economy and vicious defenses, players can command war-honed crusader warriors, and face off against 20 challenging AI lords.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
This isometric, narrative-driven stealth game plunges players into the stunning city of Eriksholm, a Nordic metropolis inspired by the elegance and grit of early 1900s Scandinavia. The story begins when Hanna's brother, Herman, vanishes, triggering a series of devastating events that threaten not only their lives but the fate of the entire city. Players join Hanna on her quest to find Herman, navigating the city's vibrant streets and uncovering a complex mystery involving greater powers than initially suspected. Strategic thinking and quick reflexes are essential as Hanna utilizes every shadow as a hiding place and every corner as a potential challenge.
To succeed, players must switch between three unique characters, each possessing distinct abilities to access new areas, solve puzzles, and outsmart relentless enemies. Careful observation of guard behaviors, utilization of environmental cues, and clever solutions are key to overcoming obstacles. The game emphasizes scouting environments, employing stealth, utilizing cover, and employing diversion tactics to evade detection within the beautiful, yet harsh, world of Eriksholm.
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition
The fate of the Forgotten Realms rests in your hands as you return to the besieged city of Neverwinter in Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition. A dark force, seeking an unknown object now in your possession, is ravaging Faerûn, and you, as the Shard-Bearer, are the only one who can stop the King of Shadows and his army. You must navigate a series of interconnected campaigns, beginning with a desperate struggle against the King of Shadows and his forces. This initial campaign leads you to confront the source of the dark affliction, ultimately requiring a journey to the Shadow Realm to uncover the cause. Following this, you find yourself shipwrecked on the shores of a hostile jungle nation in Storm of Zehir, where you and your crew must fight your way back to civilization while uncovering a plot that threatens to permanently alter Faerûn.
The game's expansive narrative continues with exploration of the corrupt city of Westgate, where secrets and danger lurk around every corner. Ultimately, you will engage in over 100 hours of immersive gameplay across four unique campaigns. The game supports crossplay across any and all platforms, utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset. Everything from the original Neverwinter Nights 2 has been preserved, including refined camera controls, polished mechanics, enhanced textures, and full controller support with a newly designed controller-specific UI. You can also become a Dungeon Master, crafting your own solo or multiplayer D&D adventures or exploring the creations of others.
Becoming Saint
This strategy game challenges players to amass power and convert city-states across 14th century medieval Italy, ultimately striving to achieve Sainthood. Players utilize the fervent belief of their followers to conquer and convert, engaging in real-time battles where strategic unit selection and terrain utilization are key to success. Up to sixteen different units can be unlocked and recruited, each possessing unique strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities that synergize with other units. Players directly control units to maximize their potential and employ Saintly powers to bless their forces and curse their enemies.
The game emphasizes player choice and adaptability. Defining a specific creed through impactful decisions shapes the player's following, economy, and conversion strategy, leading to diverse and replayable playthroughs. Even after death, players are reborn with new challenges and opportunities to improve their performance and accelerate their path to remembrance in history.
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT delivers a full-scale fighting game experience based on the acclaimed anime series. The core gameplay revolves around 3v3 Nen Ability Team Battles, mirroring the anime's dynamic combat. Players assemble teams of characters, strategically utilizing their Nen abilities to create synergistic combinations and compete for dominance. Combat is driven by the Rush Button, allowing players to execute powerful combos known as "Aura Arts." These combos are fueled by the Aura Gauge, with greater Aura reserves enabling more devastating attacks. Rollback netcode ensures smooth and responsive online battles, allowing players to compete against others across the network to earn rank points and climb the ranks towards becoming a "three-star hunter."
Beyond online competition, the game offers a variety of single-player modes. Players can engage in Story mode, battling CPU opponents through a condensed retelling of iconic Hunter x Hunter moments, including tutorial stages to learn the game's mechanics. Additionally, players can collect "Titles," "Profile Icons," and "G.I. Cards" by completing Story Mode or Single Mode challenges. These collected items can be used to customize player profiles, setting favorite character dialogue and icons. Players can also engage in Player Matches, wagering "G.I. Cards" against other players.
Neon Abyss 2
Neon Abyss 2 delivers a dramatic, thrill-packed experience through explosive run "n' gun gameplay, diverse combat styles, and limitless item synergies. The game introduces exhilarating online 4-player co-op, allowing players to band together and multiply unique synergies and combos to conquer the Abyss. Players can coordinate builds, explore different rooms within the same map to maximize efficiency and uncover hidden secrets and treasures. Combat styles include smashing enemies up close with a bat or saber, unleashing attacks with deadly plants, or commanding fierce dragon-like creatures to fight for them. Random item drops grant powers that combine in surprising and powerful ways, allowing players to stack items and create wild, unstoppable synergies that make every run feel unique.
The game features a variety of Hatchmon to discover and evolve into powerful allies, alongside an all-new Faith System designed to turn the tides when the Abyss gets unreasonable. Players can spend the Faith System in a shop stocked with powerful items, recruit more Hatchmon to fight by their side, or risk it all in a game of chance. There are new enemies and powerful gods, updated loot and hidden secrets, and the Abyss awaits-dive deeper and uncover secrets you may not face alone.
Shadow Labyrinth
The game centers around Swordsman No. 8, who is awakened by a floating yellow orb named PUCK on a mysterious planet filled with relics from a long-ago intergalactic conflict. Your purpose is to become the instrument of the planet's will, and to survive you must discover secrets, consume your enemies, and evolve into the apex predator. Explore the remnants of this ancient war, uncovering new powers and abilities as you navigate an alien world teeming with dangerous creatures and evolved monstrosities.
Master fluid combat, combining powerful skills to develop your own unique playstyle. Utilize different abilities to turn the tables on your enemies, consuming them and growing from prey to the apex predator. Team up with PUCK to delve deeper into the maze of the mysterious alien world, uncovering the truth behind your presence, what PUCK wants, and why it chose you.
The Drifter
The game centers around Mick Carter, a drifter who moves frequently, and witnesses a violent murder upon returning to his hometown. Following this event, he is relentlessly pursued by technologically advanced soldiers and experiences a surreal situation where his consciousness is ripped away, returning to his body moments before his death. Framed for the murder, Mick is tormented by his past and the unsettling feeling that a malevolent entity has returned with him. He becomes embroiled in a complex and dangerous narrative involving shadowy corporations, murder, and the obsessive pursuit of a madman.
The gameplay emphasizes fast-paced storytelling and puzzle-solving, with Mick propelled through a series of increasingly chaotic situations. Players will engage in activities such as crafting improvised weapons like Molotov cocktails and interrogating suspects, all while navigating a world filled with high-impact pixel art and a brooding dark-synth cinematic score. The puzzles are designed to be practical and investigative, contributing to the overall momentum of the story and keeping the player engaged in a constant stream of action and intrigue.
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business
The game follows RoboCop's actions after the defeat of the New Guy in Town, revealing that crime persists within Old Detroit. A new development, OCP's OmniTower, is introduced as a housing complex intended to address the city's needs. However, a group of mercenaries seize control of the OmniTower, transforming it into a fortified base of operations. This new threat is characterized by high-tech weaponry and tactics, including flying drones, exploding bots, and anti-personnel turrets. Players will encounter a diverse range of enemies, such as minigun-toting armored squads, special forces utilizing jet packs, and even katana-wielding opponents who appear predominantly mechanical.
RoboCop utilizes a wide arsenal of weapons, including the Auto-9 and the all-new Cryo Cannon, to combat these advanced threats. Players can also unleash RoboCop's strength with devastating finishing moves, such as smashing enemies against walls or vending machines. The game explores the backstory of Alex Murphy, revealing his vulnerability as a police officer before becoming RoboCop, voiced by Peter Weller. ED-209 is also featured, demonstrating its effectiveness against criminals, and the game emphasizes a more immediate response to criminal activity, eliminating the previous 20-second compliance window.
Advent NEON
Advent NEON is a fast-paced platform fighter centered around intense movement and strategic combat. Players control Neon as they navigate Neopolis, seeking to reclaim their creator's body by battling through numerous robots. The core gameplay revolves around incredibly responsive movement, featuring 8-way dashing, including wavedashing, and a buttery-smooth feel that allows for extended enjoyment of jumping and dashing. Players can utilize slopes to achieve High Speed State, maximizing their speed and damage output. A key mechanic is the ability to literally freeze time, pausing both the level timer and enemy actions, providing a significant advantage in combat.
Combat in Advent NEON is defined by attack chaining, cancelable attacks, and the ability to parry with your own attacks. Players can dramatically increase their power through Resonance, requiring skillful management to maintain 100% strength. The game offers a Training Room for experimentation, alongside customizable controls including remappable inputs, controller support, and adjustable FX opacity.
Ascent of Ashes
The game centers around establishing and managing a survivor colony in a vast, procedurally generated world ravaged by a post-apocalyptic event. Players must construct a base of operations, utilizing salvaged technology and resources to provide shelter and facilitate trade among the survivors. A core element involves farming crops, taming alien creatures, and fortifying the base against hostile intruders. Combat is a deeply tactical experience, demanding careful consideration of each hit and its potential consequences, including the possibility of incapacitating survivors with non-lethal attacks. Strategic use of ammunition is crucial, as depleted supplies can leave the player vulnerable. Players will also need to restore and operate salvaged vehicles to traverse the expansive world and overcome obstacles.
The game emphasizes the unique personalities and motivations of each survivor, requiring the player to recruit and manage a roster of individuals with diverse skills and goals. Combat encounters are dynamic and challenging, with enemies exhibiting varying degrees of intelligence and employing different tactics depending on their organization. The game's design incorporates a robust modding support system, built from the ground up to cater to mod-making communities, reflecting the developers' background in creating mods and fostering a collaborative environment for expansion and customization.
Wildgate
The game centers around high-stakes spaceship battles and intense first-person shootouts, where players must constantly improvise to claim the mysterious and priceless Artifact. Players navigate the Reach, a vast, procedurally-generated map that changes with every match, and engage in combat with rival crews, attempting to steal their gear and resources. Maintaining their ship as a lifeline is crucial, requiring constant replenishment of ice, fuel, and ammo to prepare for the hazards and opportunities presented by the Reach. Players can utilize hi-tech cannons and gadgets, set deadly traps, and sabotage enemy ships, but must always be prepared to adapt when their plans fail.
The Reach is a dangerous and unpredictable environment filled with cosmic storms, space vermin, and alien ruins, each offering potential treasure and threats. Players select from a variety of prospectors, each with unique abilities and tools, and compete to locate the Artifact, which is the most valuable object in the universe. Players can either attempt to be the first to find it and pass through the Wildgate, or they can destroy the ships of every other crew to be the last crew standing.
UnderMine 2
UnderMine 2 expands upon the acclaimed action-adventure roguelike, offering a deeper dungeon crawling experience. Players begin as a lowly peasant and strive to become a hero through discovery, combination, crafting, and transmutation of powerful relics. The game features trivial human politics alongside cosmic machinations, specifically the unseen war between two daemonic siblings that ripples through Delvemore. Players navigate branching paths within the Undermine, completing builds, quests, and diverse objectives. The final challenge is determined by decisions made throughout each run.
New interactive relics called Arcana are introduced, granting characters unique abilities such as casting fireballs or summoning minions. Players can also unlock and play as new characters, each with distinct stats, abilities, upgrades, and relics. The game supports two-player co-op, presenting a dynamic challenge and strategic options. Furthermore, the game includes full mod and workshop support, allowing players to easily create new items, characters, encounters, quests, and more using tools like paintable tilesets and a visual scripting editor, and to download other players' creations through Steam Workshop.
Hell Clock
Set in the 19th century, the game centers around the conflict surrounding Canudos, a refuge that ultimately faced brutal retaliation from the new Republic, resulting in the deaths of 25,000 people. Players assume the role of Pajeú, a warrior dedicated to rescuing the soul of The Counselor, his deceased mentor. As Pajeú descends into the depths, time becomes distorted, and the player's power increases through confrontations with the dark forces responsible for The Counselor's demise and his subsequent entrapment. The core gameplay involves battling relentless undead forces representing those who sought to suppress the truth, with each encounter presenting opportunities to acquire powerful loot and confront nightmarish incarnations of historical oppressors.
The game features a three-act story campaign alongside an Endgame Ascension system, allowing players to engage in Hell Mode, craft challenges with Penances, and fulfill heavenly Promises for godly power through the Constellations. Players can utilize a diverse range of devastating abilities, including lightning-fast knife strikes, the use of a Canudos great bell, and rapid-fire attacks from a sidearm. Furthermore, the game emphasizes the creation of devastating ability combinations, utilizing ancient Relics infused with the strength of resistance, and discovering unique combinations of Blessings to evolve the player's build while confronting the demons of Brazil's past, present, and future. Players can choose between Relaxed Mode to remove time pressure or Hardcore mode to push their limits.
Wheel World
The game centers around Kat, a young cyclist tasked with preventing the total collapse of Wheel World. Players will explore a visually impressive open world, uncovering hidden secrets and engaging in races designed to challenge their skills. A core element of the gameplay involves extensive customization of Kat's bicycle, allowing players to select from a vast array of parts, transforming their ride into either a sleek speedster or a robust off-road vehicle. The game features a dynamic soundtrack composed by Italians Do It Better, providing an energetic backdrop to both races and moments of exploration.
The primary objective is to recover stolen Legendary parts, which are essential for performing The Great Shift ritual and ultimately saving the spirits of Wheel World. Players will compete against elite cycling teams and unique rivals in high-stakes races, constantly striving to dominate and keep the universe on track.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the late Ming Dynasty, a period marked by warring factions and a mysterious illness that has spawned monstrous creatures. Players take on the role of Wuchang, a skilled pirate warrior afflicted with amnesia and the horrific Feathering disease. The game focuses on exploring the depths of Shu, enhancing combat abilities through the harvesting of skills from fallen foes and the strategic use of Red Mercury to evolve fighting styles. Players can augment their weapons with powerful enchantments, allowing for a unique combat approach and strategy tailored to their individual preferences. The narrative centers around battling grotesque abominations, utilizing ancient lore to confront the creeping darkness threatening the remaining humanity.
The gameplay involves navigating forgotten temples, overgrown ruins, and shadowed paths filled with peril, all while piecing together Wuchang's lost memories. Player choices throughout the journey will determine one of several possible endings, based on the secrets uncovered, the allies chosen, and the overall approach to the challenges presented. The game offers an immersive experience with a rich storyline, a dynamic combat system, and breathtaking visuals, placing the player at the center of a chaotic and death-filled adventure where the fate of Shu hangs in the balance.
Killing Floor 3
In 2091, players join Nightfall, the final defense against the vast army of monstrous zeds created by the megacorporation Horzine. The game is a frenetic, intense first-person shooter designed for cooperative gameplay with up to six players, or solo play for a tense single-player experience. Players form a zed extermination squad, battling through waves of enemies, earning "dosh," unlocking skills, and building a comprehensive arsenal of weapons including flamethrowers, shotguns, and katanas. Customization is a key element, with hundreds of mods, gadgets, and skills available to create a unique combat style.
The game features redesigned zeds with smarter AI, making them faster, more strategic, and deadlier than previous iterations. A core mechanic is the return of the M.E.A.T. System, which delivers realistic carnage with additional dismemberment points and persistent blood. Players can utilize the environment to their advantage by activating turrets, fans, and other traps within treacherous "hot zones" to contain the Outbreak.
Ratatan
Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike action game that blends rhythm games with side-scrolling action, offering online co-op gameplay for up to four players. The game features an intense battle with over 100 characters fighting in a massive melee. Players defeat enemies by following the rhythm of the game's catchy soundtrack, requiring precise timing to order their Cobuns and direct their movement. Judgement regarding where to give orders, where to position the ratatan, and when to retreat is critical to success.
The game is set on the island of Rataport, where animal-like creatures called Ratatans live and share a common dream: to journey to "The Everafter" and meet "The Goddess." The Ratatans embark on this journey repeatedly, never giving up on their dream of meeting her. The game utilizes 2D animation to emphasize the unique performance and lively personalities of the characters.
Hotel Galactic
Hotel Galactic is a cozy management game centered around transforming a dilapidated intergalactic hotel into a thriving tourist destination, blending nostalgic elements with modern fairy tale magic. Guided by the ghostly presence of Grandpa Gustav, players uncover the mysteries of his tragic past, intertwined with the journey to rebuild the hotel. Gustav's story, torn between a lost love and a desire for vengeance, shapes the hotel's development alongside the player's efforts. The Galactic Peace Corps closely monitors the hotel's operations and the player's choices, impacting the lives of staff, guests, and Gustav himself, creating a narrative focused on connection, growth, and redemption. Players design and customize every aspect of the hotel using modular building mechanics, filling it with furniture, decorations, and amenities, and strategically manage resources and a growing workforce to optimize operations and create an unforgettable guest experience.
The hotel sits on a magical, floating island filled with life and mystery, where players cultivate lush gardens, nurture bonds with fantastical creatures like the Moonkels and Yetlets, and harvest alien ingredients to create dishes. Innovation and expansion are driven by crafting and researching new tools, equipment, and technologies, adapting the hotel to cater to diverse races and unlocking new materials, creatures, and construction spaces. The player's actions shape the hotel's success and foster harmony within this living world, ultimately aiming to restore Hotel Galactic as a beloved destination for travelers, balancing narrative storytelling with creative gameplay.
Total Chaos
Total Chaos plunges players into the nightmarish ruins of Fort Oasis, a former coal mining haven now a crumbling wasteland. The game's core experience revolves around exploring nine harrowing chapters that progressively deepen the oppressive and decaying world. Players must scavenge for resources and craft makeshift weapons to defend themselves against the relentless terrors that stalk the shadows. Environmental storytelling is central to the gameplay, utilizing cryptic notes, haunting visuals, and unsettling encounters to reveal the island's darkest secrets and confront the player's own fractured past. The goal is to uncover fragments of forgotten lives scattered across the island, piecing together the chilling mystery of Fort Oasis's demise with every discovery.
The gameplay emphasizes resource management, requiring careful choices and quick thinking to survive. Players face desperate battles against horrific creatures, each possessing unique behaviors and strategies. A deep inventory system ensures that every item is crucial to survival, and the game's origins as an award-winning total conversion mod have been amplified into a standalone terrormare, maximizing its chilling atmosphere and relentless tension for a new audience.
No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
The game centers around the abduction of Iris, a popular internet idol, by aliens who have placed her aboard a mysterious UFO. Kaname Date, a Psyncer, is tasked with assisting Iris in completing a bizarre escape game and ultimately uncovering the truth behind the situation. Players will conduct investigations using Date's special functions in his left eye to gather information and track Iris's whereabouts. Throughout the game, familiar and new characters will appear, adding to the complexity of the unfolding mystery.
Gameplay involves exploring the eccentric dream world of potential suspects through the Somnium mechanic, allowing players to uncover clues and secret memories. Simultaneously, players must solve thrilling mysteries while navigating a locked environment. Successfully identifying the true answer beyond surface-level logic will unlock the door to escape, driving the narrative forward and revealing more about the overarching plot.
FUMES
This single-player game offers a straightforward and intense experience, drawing inspiration from the classic vehicular combat genre of the golden era. Players will engage in fast-paced gameplay, customizing their cars with weapons and equipping them with stickers. The game features driving physics reminiscent of old rally games, allowing for challenging off-road races against the fastest racers of the wastelands. Players will encounter waves of enemies, participate in intense chases, and deliver suspicious packages while escaping pursuit. The core gameplay loop involves battling giant bosses – monstrous vehicles – and earning new cars and parts by defeating them.
The game's environments are expansive and procedural, leading players to get lost in the desert and wander through endless landscapes. There are no loading screens or fast travel options, encouraging players to fully immerse themselves in the experience. A guitar-heavy soundtrack accompanies the action, and players can collect scrap to further customize their vehicles. The game focuses on pure, unadulterated mayhem, encouraging players to become "mayhem walkers" within this twisted world.
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings Game
Tales of the Shire offers players the opportunity to live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the serene landscape of the Shire, directly from J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved books. Players create their own Hobbit, personalising their appearance and attire, and then settle into a newly established, though not yet official, village in Bywater. The core gameplay revolves around decorating a personal Hobbit home with grid-free placement of furniture and décor, tending to a garden, fishing at clear ponds, foraging for wild fruits and herbs, and trading with townsfolk. Players prepare homemade meals to share with fellow Hobbits, fostering relationships and enjoying second breakfast or hosting dinner parties. Days are spent exploring the picturesque forests, lakes, and pastures of Bywater, experiencing the ever-changing weather and seasonal surprises.
Throughout the game, players actively contribute to helping the quaint town flourish by completing club missions to achieve official village status in Bywater. This involves daily activities, gaining rewards through story progression, and meeting iconic characters and familiar Hobbit families to trade for upgrades to skills, clothes, home, and more. The focus is on enjoying the little things and experiencing the idyllic life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire.
Grounded 2
The game presents a scenario where the player has been reduced to the size of an ant, transforming a familiar environment – a park – into a vast, uncharted wilderness. Players must navigate sprawling spaces now overtaken by nature, utilizing buggies that can both fight alongside them and gather resources. These buggies are central to survival, allowing players to hatch, raise, and ride insect companions, commanding them in battle and assisting in resource collection. The core gameplay loop involves traversing this overgrown landscape, uncovering hidden secrets, and adapting to the constant threats lurking within.
Survival is significantly enhanced through cooperation with friends, as the dangers of the park are formidable alone. Players can work together to build, fight, and uncover the mysteries hidden beneath the surface. However, a persistent and unknown threat constantly observes and learns the player's actions, growing closer with each discovery. This unseen force represents a significant danger, and seeking answers only deepens the player's predicament, suggesting a pervasive sense of dread and inescapable pursuit.
Terminull Brigade
Terminull Brigade is an action-roguelike co-op hero shooter set in futuristic digital worlds. Players must dive into the Nullverse, mastering a roster of Rogueteers to make the last stand against unfolding shadow algorithms. Each exploration features randomized challenges and rewards as players unravel the rich stories and mysteries of unique, captivating worlds. Players can choose their avatar from a selection of Rogueteers, each with a distinct personality, playstyle, and signature moves. The game emphasizes teamwork, with players being stronger together in online co-op, and encourages strategic combat against challenging bosses at the end of each dive.
Throughout each run, players collect loot to craft powerful weapons and mods, enhancing their gameplay and allowing for endless build possibilities. The game's core loop revolves around mastering a chosen Rogueteer, unlocking a rich talent tree, and customizing their abilities with mods. Every victory or defeat provides new insights and allows players to grow stronger, ensuring that each exploration into the Nullverse is a unique and rewarding experience.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound blends the classic lore and gameplay of the original Tecmo-developed NINJA GAIDEN series with the depth and intensity of the modern 3D entries. The story begins with Ryu Hayabusa traveling to America to fulfill his father's will, during which time the barrier between the human and demon worlds collapses, unleashing a terrifying army upon the Hayabusa Village. In Ryu's absence, Kenji Mozu, a young ninja trained by Ryu, rises to the challenge, but quickly finds himself in desperate straits. Forced to utilize forbidden power, Kenji forms an alliance with the sinister Black Spider Clan, believing that combining their souls and skills is the only way to protect the world from the Demon Lord.
Players control Kenji Mozu and the skilled assassin Kumori simultaneously, utilizing the Ninja Fusion to unleash devastating abilities and battle enemies. The game features impeccable mechanics that are easy to learn but difficult to master, appealing to both new and experienced fans of the NINJA GAIDEN series. The brutal, nostalgia-filled aesthetic of the game pays homage to the past while pushing the boundaries of modern pixel art, creating a visually stunning experience with meticulously crafted visuals and every enemy recreated with a level of detail previously impossible.
Earthion
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems by Ancient Corporation, led by legendary Japanese developer Yuzo Koshiro. Players guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi through eight chaotic levels, each featuring unique environments, enemies, and boss fights, in an effort to repel alien invaders and save planet Earth. The game is designed to push the original system to its absolute limits, offering a generation-defining experience and an unforgettable fight among the stars.
The game includes an original soundtrack from one of the most renowned composers of the 16-bit era, featuring 27 original tracks and an incredible soundscape of effects to transport players back to a golden age of retro gaming. Earthion was developed natively for classic 16-bit hardware and offers great quality of life features, including highly customizable scanline configurations to give an authentic retro experience on modern displays.
In the wake of the Catastrophe, Earth faces imminent destruction as a carbon-silicon mineral called Corite rapidly consumes habitable spaces, threatening to engulf the planet within 30 years. This devastation is centered around the heavily polluted Marcens Zones, pushing humanity toward extinction. Players assume the role of a pilot of a third-generation BREAK Striker, navigating a perilous world offered a chance by a secretive organization known as S.H.A.D.O.W. The game features three distinct combat modes: 3v3 Deathmatch, 6v6 Hero Shooter, and PvPvE Extraction Shooter. Players can choose from a variety of mechs, utilizing assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support capabilities to engage in intense battles across a 200-square-kilometer combat area.
The core gameplay involves infiltrating the largest Corite resource zone, the Mashmak Islands, either solo or with a tactical squad of three mechs. Objectives include reconnaissance missions under fire, acquiring special materials for weapon upgrades, and surviving against hostile garrison forces and the spread of Corite pulse storms. Players can further personalize their mechs and pilots with a wide selection of colors, decals, and patterns, and unlock a roster of characters with rich backstories to join forces with in the fight for humanity's survival.
Noobs Are Coming
Noobs Are Coming is a roguelike game where the player takes on the role of the final boss. The game features a large roster of unique Dungeon Bosses to choose from, offering quick and addictive runs lasting under 30 minutes. Players can forge their own builds by equipping Boss Patterns, summoning Minions, utilizing physics-based Chain Spikeballs, and kicking Wrecking Balls with their Minions or co-op players. A variety of weapons are available, alongside the ability to grow Plant Minions using a Watering Can or Cloud Spell. Players can also transform enemies into Sheep or Golden Statues, mine Ore, and deploy Turrets, creating a dynamic and emergent gameplay experience.
The game emphasizes wild theorycrafting and pushing stats to absurd levels, leading to chaotic screen explosions. A "Cheater Item" allows players to stack unique items multiple times. Players can control a Giant Worm Boss, Spider Queen, or Seductive Succubus, and engage in wave-based combat against increasingly intense raids of "Noobs." Leveling up and purchasing upgrades is crucial for survival, alongside unlocking a vast amount of content and challenges. The game boasts a cute and badass art style, a banger OST, and a parody RPG universe with meta humor and funny cutscenes, including a Twitch Streamer Mode that incorporates chat usernames and messages. It supports singleplayer and multiplayer, with options for 4-player local co-op and Steam Remote Play Together.
PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY
The game centers around the player's role as the God of the Patapons, leading them on a grand adventure to Earthend. Gameplay utilizes the rhythmic beating of four Mystical Drums – Pata(←), Pon(→), Don(↓), and Chaka(↑) – to command these cute and mysterious eyeball-like creatures. Each Patapon possesses unique characteristics and classes, such as the Hatapon who leads with a flag, the Tatepon who defends with a shield, and the Yumipon who attacks with arrows. Strategic combat is achieved through utilizing the correct battle commands in the appropriate situations, alongside the creation of a well-rounded army composed of Patapons with diverse classes.
The game combines simple controls with strategic elements, offering a challenge for players. Patapons can be customized and enhanced through the use of 400 weapons and equipment gathered from stages and minigames. New support features have been added, including adjustable difficulty settings (Easy, Normal, Hard) and the option to keep the drum icon displayed at all times. This remastered set combines the original PATAPON and PATAPON 2, offering a complete experience for players.
Mycopunk
The game centers around a group of robot rejects, known as the New Atlas Hazard Crew, who are employed by the SAXON corporation for one final opportunity at success and avoiding being scrapped. This squad is tasked with investigating a planet-wide fungal catastrophe through a series of dangerous missions. Players will engage in combat against hordes of enemies that are corrupting and weaponizing the planet's technology. The crew utilizes an arsenal of advanced futuristic weaponry and power tools, which can be upgraded using a unique grid-based system to create customized, sci-fi super-weapons.
Between missions, the team relaxes in an orbital dropship, interacting with the insectoid SAXON veteran Roachard Cox and engaging in various activities. The combination of upgraded abilities and customized weapons allows for strategic co-op mayhem, or simply shooting each other. Players will observe visible results within one to two missions, and the crew's collective strength surpasses the sum of their individual parts.
Every Day We Fight
Players control a group of three civilians caught in an endless time loop triggered by an alien invasion. The Rifters, an alien race, have frozen the world, seeking to harvest resources, and the players must fight to stop them. Each loop presents a series of mission types, including shutting down harvesters, defusing bombs, and eliminating occupying troops. Players explore multiple districts of a wartorn city, seeking out weapons, equipment, and hidden resources, which are available from the start of each subsequent loop. They utilize a variety of weapons, modifications, and gear to improve their combat effectiveness, and engage in challenging boss battles against Rifter leaders, whose defeat advances the time loop.
Tactical gameplay is central to the experience, requiring players to carefully position their fighters, utilize their unique reflex actions, and study enemy movements to gain an advantage. Accurate aiming is crucial, with hit chances determined by positioning, aim, and reaction time, considering ballistics and enemy behavior. Players can choose from a range of weapons, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and must adapt their strategies to overcome increasingly difficult challenges. Death is a constant threat, resetting the time loop while retaining acquired experience and skills, forcing players to continually refine their approach and build upon their successes, ultimately striving to break the cycle and save the world.
Everdeep Aurora
The game centers around Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother vanished, triggering an urgent descent into the depths following an ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower. This narrative exploration and platform game draws inspiration from the aesthetics and gameplay of classic 16-bit titles, offering a vibrant and dynamic world to explore. Players will navigate a subterranean realm populated by tormented creatures with an uncertain past, discovering secret caverns and sprawling underground dwellings. As Shell ventures deeper, her choices will shape her journey through the depths, influencing her path and the unfolding story.
The game features atmospheric pixel art and an evocative soundtrack, with shifting palettes and musical themes reflecting the diverse locations encountered. Players will encounter characters with unique personalities and, occasionally, optional side quests. The goal is to uncover the secrets hidden within the Everdeep, a world shaped by the aftermath of the meteor shower and the mysteries surrounding its inhabitants.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 reunites the legendary franchise with a refreshed experience featuring more skaters, new parks, and gnarlier tricks. Players can drop in to both new and returning parks, authentically remade in 4K resolution with streamlined goals and the iconic 2-minute format. The game includes expanded Create-A-Skater and Create-A-Park modes, allowing players to create custom goals to share with friends for the first time. The core gameplay retains the smooth handling and simple-to-learn controls from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, ensuring a familiar and accessible experience for all skill levels.
Multiplayer functionality is a key component, supporting up to 8 skaters in new and returning game modes. A New Game+ mode provides increased challenge, and the game features enhanced goals. Players can create custom goals to share with friends, and the entire experience is enhanced by eardrum-shattering music.
Brickadia
Brickadia offers a next-generation sandbox experience centered around real-time multiplayer creativity and dynamic building. Players can collaboratively construct massive worlds, intricate physics contraptions, and entirely new game modes with friends, utilizing intuitive tools for building towering skyscrapers, vehicles, islands, spaceships, and cityscapes. The game's powerful tools allow for the creation of dynamic builds, incorporating elements like buttons, switches, motors, servos, lights, and seats, all controlled through wire logic and simple circuits using logic gates. Players can design complex puzzles and terrifying traps without needing to write code, focusing on interactive builds and strategic placement of item spawns and ammo pickups.
Furthermore, the game boasts a highly flexible avatar customization system, enabling players to assemble unique avatars with hundreds of varied pieces, including accessories, hats, hairstyles, clothing, and even tails. These personalized avatars can then be used in battles against other players, utilizing a flexible game rules system and a wide range of weaponry. Players can explore and remix experiences created by other players within the in-game Gallery, either solo or with friends, offering an endless array of interactive and creative possibilities.
NIGHT OF THE CONSUMERS
This first-person game plunges the player into the unsettling world of retail horror, beginning with the role of a retail store employee. The gameplay focuses on a frantic, anxiety-inducing experience centered around completing daily tasks within the store. Players must balance responsibilities such as stacking items on empty shelves, cleaning up messes like puke, and constantly addressing the demands of relentless consumers. The game emphasizes a fast-paced environment, requiring quick reactions and strategic thinking to avoid upsetting The Manager.
To manage the overwhelming situation, players can utilize tactics like hurling boxes at consumers to temporarily halt their progress, or retreat to staff-only rooms for brief respite. However, these rooms offer only temporary relief, and the player must continually race against the clock to fulfill their duties. Multiple nights of gameplay are available, alongside unlockable content and hidden secrets for those seeking to fully explore the game's unsettling world.
Dawn Apart
The game centers around establishing and managing a thriving industrial colony on a transformed alien landscape. Players are tasked with harvesting resources, meticulously designing complex production lines, and continuously optimizing efficiency within a fully destructible world. A core element involves utilizing conveyor belts extensively, as every decision directly impacts the colony's future and presents unique challenges. The game emphasizes strategic planning and adaptability, requiring players to balance the needs of a growing population with the demands of a burgeoning factory system.
Survival hinges on defending the colony against persistent environmental threats and enigmatic alien forces. Maintaining sufficient food, shelter, and medical supplies for the constant influx of new settlers is crucial. Successfully navigating this delicate balance between population needs and industrial expansion is paramount to ensuring the colony's long-term viability and success in the face of adversity.
Kaizen: A Factory Story
In 1986, players take on the role of David Sugimoto, a young man from South Bend, Indiana, who secures a job at Matsuzawa Manufacturing in Japan. Initially anticipating a position within the international sales team, he finds himself working in one of Matsuzawa's older factories on the outskirts of Tokyo, designing automated production lines. The game focuses on the challenge of surviving as a rookie within the world of factory automation, requiring players to weld, rivet, cut, and drill to create the most efficient and streamlined designs. Players are tasked with building items within their factories, with the goal of creating the simplest, fastest, and sleekest solutions.
Beyond the core factory automation gameplay, the game includes a unique pachinko-themed solitaire game called Pachi-Sol, offering a change of pace. Players can share their factory designs by exporting animated GIFs, showcasing their solutions to others. Developed by the creators of Opus Magnum, SpaceChem, and Infinifactory, this game presents a masterfully engineered experience centered around intricate factory design and optimization.
Word Play
Word Play is a challenging spelling game focused on creating the largest possible words to earn points and progress through rounds. Players utilize various methods – dragging and dropping letters, clicking tiles, or typing with the keyboard – to spell words. Each word spelled consumes a "play," and the goal is to reach the end of a round without running out of plays. The game incorporates modifiers that alter the core rules, offering a dynamic and unpredictable experience. Players can strategically combine long words, special tiles, and these modified rules to maximize their scores.
Throughout the game, players can acquire upgrades that modify their letter tiles, including special forms like Golden, Diamond, Emerald, and Potion. Gifts add new tiles to the letter bag, while upgrades allow for actions such as destroying, discarding, or duplicating tiles. The game offers multiple difficulty modes – Normal, Hard, Ruthless, and Legendary – alongside a Time Attack mode and accessibility features.
MoteMancer
The game centers around designing intricate automation systems across six overlapping Elemental planes, each procedurally generated and seamlessly traversable in real time. Players utilize a Hex Grid to strategically combine ingredients, structures, and magic to reshape the world through alchemical insight. Unique to each plane are distinct mechanics and puzzle pieces, encouraging experimentation and diverse solutions. Players grow Mana Roots and Mana Leaves to collect power from the sun, and they weave Streamways to move ingredients across their base. Each Element offers unique tools and power systems, and combining elements creates powerful, synergistic effects.
Research is conducted through ingredient infusion, unlocking new tools through experimentation where every combination presents a chance for unexpected discoveries. A key element of the gameplay is managing Entropy, a creeping adversary that tests the resilience of your systems. Players learn spells to Nudge structures, Levitate across terrain, or use Daycaller to control the sun itself, recognizing that magic is integral to the puzzle-solving process.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition transports players to the era of the Crusades, offering an expanded and enhanced experience of the beloved real-time strategy game. The definitive edition faithfully recreates historical desert skirmishes with upgraded visuals, utilizing the original source artwork, music, and returning voice talent. Players can engage in a variety of modes, including two new historical campaigns focusing on conflicts from the First, Second, and Third Crusades, as well as the struggles between Richard the Lionheart and Sultan Saladin. The game expands upon the original with 8 new playable units, specifically Bedouin warriors, 4 fresh AI lords to challenge, and several additional campaigns. Players can experience epic battles such as Nicaea, Heraclea, and the sieges of Jerusalem and Antioch, rebuilt with new visual detail and a fully remastered soundtrack.
The Definitive Edition offers a wealth of content for both veterans and newcomers. Players can delve into skirmish mode with larger map sizes, custom options, and quality of life improvements, alongside a new co-op trail for collaborative gameplay. The game also includes support for custom scenarios through Workshop support. With a full castle economy and vicious defenses, players can command war-honed crusader warriors, and face off against 20 challenging AI lords.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
This isometric, narrative-driven stealth game plunges players into the stunning city of Eriksholm, a Nordic metropolis inspired by the elegance and grit of early 1900s Scandinavia. The story begins when Hanna's brother, Herman, vanishes, triggering a series of devastating events that threaten not only their lives but the fate of the entire city. Players join Hanna on her quest to find Herman, navigating the city's vibrant streets and uncovering a complex mystery involving greater powers than initially suspected. Strategic thinking and quick reflexes are essential as Hanna utilizes every shadow as a hiding place and every corner as a potential challenge.
To succeed, players must switch between three unique characters, each possessing distinct abilities to access new areas, solve puzzles, and outsmart relentless enemies. Careful observation of guard behaviors, utilization of environmental cues, and clever solutions are key to overcoming obstacles. The game emphasizes scouting environments, employing stealth, utilizing cover, and employing diversion tactics to evade detection within the beautiful, yet harsh, world of Eriksholm.
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition
The fate of the Forgotten Realms rests in your hands as you return to the besieged city of Neverwinter in Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition. A dark force, seeking an unknown object now in your possession, is ravaging Faerûn, and you, as the Shard-Bearer, are the only one who can stop the King of Shadows and his army. You must navigate a series of interconnected campaigns, beginning with a desperate struggle against the King of Shadows and his forces. This initial campaign leads you to confront the source of the dark affliction, ultimately requiring a journey to the Shadow Realm to uncover the cause. Following this, you find yourself shipwrecked on the shores of a hostile jungle nation in Storm of Zehir, where you and your crew must fight your way back to civilization while uncovering a plot that threatens to permanently alter Faerûn.
The game's expansive narrative continues with exploration of the corrupt city of Westgate, where secrets and danger lurk around every corner. Ultimately, you will engage in over 100 hours of immersive gameplay across four unique campaigns. The game supports crossplay across any and all platforms, utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset. Everything from the original Neverwinter Nights 2 has been preserved, including refined camera controls, polished mechanics, enhanced textures, and full controller support with a newly designed controller-specific UI. You can also become a Dungeon Master, crafting your own solo or multiplayer D&D adventures or exploring the creations of others.
Becoming Saint
This strategy game challenges players to amass power and convert city-states across 14th century medieval Italy, ultimately striving to achieve Sainthood. Players utilize the fervent belief of their followers to conquer and convert, engaging in real-time battles where strategic unit selection and terrain utilization are key to success. Up to sixteen different units can be unlocked and recruited, each possessing unique strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities that synergize with other units. Players directly control units to maximize their potential and employ Saintly powers to bless their forces and curse their enemies.
The game emphasizes player choice and adaptability. Defining a specific creed through impactful decisions shapes the player's following, economy, and conversion strategy, leading to diverse and replayable playthroughs. Even after death, players are reborn with new challenges and opportunities to improve their performance and accelerate their path to remembrance in history.
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT delivers a full-scale fighting game experience based on the acclaimed anime series. The core gameplay revolves around 3v3 Nen Ability Team Battles, mirroring the anime's dynamic combat. Players assemble teams of characters, strategically utilizing their Nen abilities to create synergistic combinations and compete for dominance. Combat is driven by the Rush Button, allowing players to execute powerful combos known as "Aura Arts." These combos are fueled by the Aura Gauge, with greater Aura reserves enabling more devastating attacks. Rollback netcode ensures smooth and responsive online battles, allowing players to compete against others across the network to earn rank points and climb the ranks towards becoming a "three-star hunter."
Beyond online competition, the game offers a variety of single-player modes. Players can engage in Story mode, battling CPU opponents through a condensed retelling of iconic Hunter x Hunter moments, including tutorial stages to learn the game's mechanics. Additionally, players can collect "Titles," "Profile Icons," and "G.I. Cards" by completing Story Mode or Single Mode challenges. These collected items can be used to customize player profiles, setting favorite character dialogue and icons. Players can also engage in Player Matches, wagering "G.I. Cards" against other players.
Neon Abyss 2
Neon Abyss 2 delivers a dramatic, thrill-packed experience through explosive run "n' gun gameplay, diverse combat styles, and limitless item synergies. The game introduces exhilarating online 4-player co-op, allowing players to band together and multiply unique synergies and combos to conquer the Abyss. Players can coordinate builds, explore different rooms within the same map to maximize efficiency and uncover hidden secrets and treasures. Combat styles include smashing enemies up close with a bat or saber, unleashing attacks with deadly plants, or commanding fierce dragon-like creatures to fight for them. Random item drops grant powers that combine in surprising and powerful ways, allowing players to stack items and create wild, unstoppable synergies that make every run feel unique.
The game features a variety of Hatchmon to discover and evolve into powerful allies, alongside an all-new Faith System designed to turn the tides when the Abyss gets unreasonable. Players can spend the Faith System in a shop stocked with powerful items, recruit more Hatchmon to fight by their side, or risk it all in a game of chance. There are new enemies and powerful gods, updated loot and hidden secrets, and the Abyss awaits-dive deeper and uncover secrets you may not face alone.
Shadow Labyrinth
The game centers around Swordsman No. 8, who is awakened by a floating yellow orb named PUCK on a mysterious planet filled with relics from a long-ago intergalactic conflict. Your purpose is to become the instrument of the planet's will, and to survive you must discover secrets, consume your enemies, and evolve into the apex predator. Explore the remnants of this ancient war, uncovering new powers and abilities as you navigate an alien world teeming with dangerous creatures and evolved monstrosities.
Master fluid combat, combining powerful skills to develop your own unique playstyle. Utilize different abilities to turn the tables on your enemies, consuming them and growing from prey to the apex predator. Team up with PUCK to delve deeper into the maze of the mysterious alien world, uncovering the truth behind your presence, what PUCK wants, and why it chose you.
The Drifter
The game centers around Mick Carter, a drifter who moves frequently, and witnesses a violent murder upon returning to his hometown. Following this event, he is relentlessly pursued by technologically advanced soldiers and experiences a surreal situation where his consciousness is ripped away, returning to his body moments before his death. Framed for the murder, Mick is tormented by his past and the unsettling feeling that a malevolent entity has returned with him. He becomes embroiled in a complex and dangerous narrative involving shadowy corporations, murder, and the obsessive pursuit of a madman.
The gameplay emphasizes fast-paced storytelling and puzzle-solving, with Mick propelled through a series of increasingly chaotic situations. Players will engage in activities such as crafting improvised weapons like Molotov cocktails and interrogating suspects, all while navigating a world filled with high-impact pixel art and a brooding dark-synth cinematic score. The puzzles are designed to be practical and investigative, contributing to the overall momentum of the story and keeping the player engaged in a constant stream of action and intrigue.
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business
The game follows RoboCop's actions after the defeat of the New Guy in Town, revealing that crime persists within Old Detroit. A new development, OCP's OmniTower, is introduced as a housing complex intended to address the city's needs. However, a group of mercenaries seize control of the OmniTower, transforming it into a fortified base of operations. This new threat is characterized by high-tech weaponry and tactics, including flying drones, exploding bots, and anti-personnel turrets. Players will encounter a diverse range of enemies, such as minigun-toting armored squads, special forces utilizing jet packs, and even katana-wielding opponents who appear predominantly mechanical.
RoboCop utilizes a wide arsenal of weapons, including the Auto-9 and the all-new Cryo Cannon, to combat these advanced threats. Players can also unleash RoboCop's strength with devastating finishing moves, such as smashing enemies against walls or vending machines. The game explores the backstory of Alex Murphy, revealing his vulnerability as a police officer before becoming RoboCop, voiced by Peter Weller. ED-209 is also featured, demonstrating its effectiveness against criminals, and the game emphasizes a more immediate response to criminal activity, eliminating the previous 20-second compliance window.
Advent NEON
Advent NEON is a fast-paced platform fighter centered around intense movement and strategic combat. Players control Neon as they navigate Neopolis, seeking to reclaim their creator's body by battling through numerous robots. The core gameplay revolves around incredibly responsive movement, featuring 8-way dashing, including wavedashing, and a buttery-smooth feel that allows for extended enjoyment of jumping and dashing. Players can utilize slopes to achieve High Speed State, maximizing their speed and damage output. A key mechanic is the ability to literally freeze time, pausing both the level timer and enemy actions, providing a significant advantage in combat.
Combat in Advent NEON is defined by attack chaining, cancelable attacks, and the ability to parry with your own attacks. Players can dramatically increase their power through Resonance, requiring skillful management to maintain 100% strength. The game offers a Training Room for experimentation, alongside customizable controls including remappable inputs, controller support, and adjustable FX opacity.
Ascent of Ashes
The game centers around establishing and managing a survivor colony in a vast, procedurally generated world ravaged by a post-apocalyptic event. Players must construct a base of operations, utilizing salvaged technology and resources to provide shelter and facilitate trade among the survivors. A core element involves farming crops, taming alien creatures, and fortifying the base against hostile intruders. Combat is a deeply tactical experience, demanding careful consideration of each hit and its potential consequences, including the possibility of incapacitating survivors with non-lethal attacks. Strategic use of ammunition is crucial, as depleted supplies can leave the player vulnerable. Players will also need to restore and operate salvaged vehicles to traverse the expansive world and overcome obstacles.
The game emphasizes the unique personalities and motivations of each survivor, requiring the player to recruit and manage a roster of individuals with diverse skills and goals. Combat encounters are dynamic and challenging, with enemies exhibiting varying degrees of intelligence and employing different tactics depending on their organization. The game's design incorporates a robust modding support system, built from the ground up to cater to mod-making communities, reflecting the developers' background in creating mods and fostering a collaborative environment for expansion and customization.
Wildgate
The game centers around high-stakes spaceship battles and intense first-person shootouts, where players must constantly improvise to claim the mysterious and priceless Artifact. Players navigate the Reach, a vast, procedurally-generated map that changes with every match, and engage in combat with rival crews, attempting to steal their gear and resources. Maintaining their ship as a lifeline is crucial, requiring constant replenishment of ice, fuel, and ammo to prepare for the hazards and opportunities presented by the Reach. Players can utilize hi-tech cannons and gadgets, set deadly traps, and sabotage enemy ships, but must always be prepared to adapt when their plans fail.
The Reach is a dangerous and unpredictable environment filled with cosmic storms, space vermin, and alien ruins, each offering potential treasure and threats. Players select from a variety of prospectors, each with unique abilities and tools, and compete to locate the Artifact, which is the most valuable object in the universe. Players can either attempt to be the first to find it and pass through the Wildgate, or they can destroy the ships of every other crew to be the last crew standing.
UnderMine 2
UnderMine 2 expands upon the acclaimed action-adventure roguelike, offering a deeper dungeon crawling experience. Players begin as a lowly peasant and strive to become a hero through discovery, combination, crafting, and transmutation of powerful relics. The game features trivial human politics alongside cosmic machinations, specifically the unseen war between two daemonic siblings that ripples through Delvemore. Players navigate branching paths within the Undermine, completing builds, quests, and diverse objectives. The final challenge is determined by decisions made throughout each run.
New interactive relics called Arcana are introduced, granting characters unique abilities such as casting fireballs or summoning minions. Players can also unlock and play as new characters, each with distinct stats, abilities, upgrades, and relics. The game supports two-player co-op, presenting a dynamic challenge and strategic options. Furthermore, the game includes full mod and workshop support, allowing players to easily create new items, characters, encounters, quests, and more using tools like paintable tilesets and a visual scripting editor, and to download other players' creations through Steam Workshop.
Hell Clock
Set in the 19th century, the game centers around the conflict surrounding Canudos, a refuge that ultimately faced brutal retaliation from the new Republic, resulting in the deaths of 25,000 people. Players assume the role of Pajeú, a warrior dedicated to rescuing the soul of The Counselor, his deceased mentor. As Pajeú descends into the depths, time becomes distorted, and the player's power increases through confrontations with the dark forces responsible for The Counselor's demise and his subsequent entrapment. The core gameplay involves battling relentless undead forces representing those who sought to suppress the truth, with each encounter presenting opportunities to acquire powerful loot and confront nightmarish incarnations of historical oppressors.
The game features a three-act story campaign alongside an Endgame Ascension system, allowing players to engage in Hell Mode, craft challenges with Penances, and fulfill heavenly Promises for godly power through the Constellations. Players can utilize a diverse range of devastating abilities, including lightning-fast knife strikes, the use of a Canudos great bell, and rapid-fire attacks from a sidearm. Furthermore, the game emphasizes the creation of devastating ability combinations, utilizing ancient Relics infused with the strength of resistance, and discovering unique combinations of Blessings to evolve the player's build while confronting the demons of Brazil's past, present, and future. Players can choose between Relaxed Mode to remove time pressure or Hardcore mode to push their limits.
Wheel World
The game centers around Kat, a young cyclist tasked with preventing the total collapse of Wheel World. Players will explore a visually impressive open world, uncovering hidden secrets and engaging in races designed to challenge their skills. A core element of the gameplay involves extensive customization of Kat's bicycle, allowing players to select from a vast array of parts, transforming their ride into either a sleek speedster or a robust off-road vehicle. The game features a dynamic soundtrack composed by Italians Do It Better, providing an energetic backdrop to both races and moments of exploration.
The primary objective is to recover stolen Legendary parts, which are essential for performing The Great Shift ritual and ultimately saving the spirits of Wheel World. Players will compete against elite cycling teams and unique rivals in high-stakes races, constantly striving to dominate and keep the universe on track.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the late Ming Dynasty, a period marked by warring factions and a mysterious illness that has spawned monstrous creatures. Players take on the role of Wuchang, a skilled pirate warrior afflicted with amnesia and the horrific Feathering disease. The game focuses on exploring the depths of Shu, enhancing combat abilities through the harvesting of skills from fallen foes and the strategic use of Red Mercury to evolve fighting styles. Players can augment their weapons with powerful enchantments, allowing for a unique combat approach and strategy tailored to their individual preferences. The narrative centers around battling grotesque abominations, utilizing ancient lore to confront the creeping darkness threatening the remaining humanity.
The gameplay involves navigating forgotten temples, overgrown ruins, and shadowed paths filled with peril, all while piecing together Wuchang's lost memories. Player choices throughout the journey will determine one of several possible endings, based on the secrets uncovered, the allies chosen, and the overall approach to the challenges presented. The game offers an immersive experience with a rich storyline, a dynamic combat system, and breathtaking visuals, placing the player at the center of a chaotic and death-filled adventure where the fate of Shu hangs in the balance.
Killing Floor 3
In 2091, players join Nightfall, the final defense against the vast army of monstrous zeds created by the megacorporation Horzine. The game is a frenetic, intense first-person shooter designed for cooperative gameplay with up to six players, or solo play for a tense single-player experience. Players form a zed extermination squad, battling through waves of enemies, earning "dosh," unlocking skills, and building a comprehensive arsenal of weapons including flamethrowers, shotguns, and katanas. Customization is a key element, with hundreds of mods, gadgets, and skills available to create a unique combat style.
The game features redesigned zeds with smarter AI, making them faster, more strategic, and deadlier than previous iterations. A core mechanic is the return of the M.E.A.T. System, which delivers realistic carnage with additional dismemberment points and persistent blood. Players can utilize the environment to their advantage by activating turrets, fans, and other traps within treacherous "hot zones" to contain the Outbreak.
Ratatan
Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike action game that blends rhythm games with side-scrolling action, offering online co-op gameplay for up to four players. The game features an intense battle with over 100 characters fighting in a massive melee. Players defeat enemies by following the rhythm of the game's catchy soundtrack, requiring precise timing to order their Cobuns and direct their movement. Judgement regarding where to give orders, where to position the ratatan, and when to retreat is critical to success.
The game is set on the island of Rataport, where animal-like creatures called Ratatans live and share a common dream: to journey to "The Everafter" and meet "The Goddess." The Ratatans embark on this journey repeatedly, never giving up on their dream of meeting her. The game utilizes 2D animation to emphasize the unique performance and lively personalities of the characters.
Hotel Galactic
Hotel Galactic is a cozy management game centered around transforming a dilapidated intergalactic hotel into a thriving tourist destination, blending nostalgic elements with modern fairy tale magic. Guided by the ghostly presence of Grandpa Gustav, players uncover the mysteries of his tragic past, intertwined with the journey to rebuild the hotel. Gustav's story, torn between a lost love and a desire for vengeance, shapes the hotel's development alongside the player's efforts. The Galactic Peace Corps closely monitors the hotel's operations and the player's choices, impacting the lives of staff, guests, and Gustav himself, creating a narrative focused on connection, growth, and redemption. Players design and customize every aspect of the hotel using modular building mechanics, filling it with furniture, decorations, and amenities, and strategically manage resources and a growing workforce to optimize operations and create an unforgettable guest experience.
The hotel sits on a magical, floating island filled with life and mystery, where players cultivate lush gardens, nurture bonds with fantastical creatures like the Moonkels and Yetlets, and harvest alien ingredients to create dishes. Innovation and expansion are driven by crafting and researching new tools, equipment, and technologies, adapting the hotel to cater to diverse races and unlocking new materials, creatures, and construction spaces. The player's actions shape the hotel's success and foster harmony within this living world, ultimately aiming to restore Hotel Galactic as a beloved destination for travelers, balancing narrative storytelling with creative gameplay.
Total Chaos
Total Chaos plunges players into the nightmarish ruins of Fort Oasis, a former coal mining haven now a crumbling wasteland. The game's core experience revolves around exploring nine harrowing chapters that progressively deepen the oppressive and decaying world. Players must scavenge for resources and craft makeshift weapons to defend themselves against the relentless terrors that stalk the shadows. Environmental storytelling is central to the gameplay, utilizing cryptic notes, haunting visuals, and unsettling encounters to reveal the island's darkest secrets and confront the player's own fractured past. The goal is to uncover fragments of forgotten lives scattered across the island, piecing together the chilling mystery of Fort Oasis's demise with every discovery.
The gameplay emphasizes resource management, requiring careful choices and quick thinking to survive. Players face desperate battles against horrific creatures, each possessing unique behaviors and strategies. A deep inventory system ensures that every item is crucial to survival, and the game's origins as an award-winning total conversion mod have been amplified into a standalone terrormare, maximizing its chilling atmosphere and relentless tension for a new audience.
No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
The game centers around the abduction of Iris, a popular internet idol, by aliens who have placed her aboard a mysterious UFO. Kaname Date, a Psyncer, is tasked with assisting Iris in completing a bizarre escape game and ultimately uncovering the truth behind the situation. Players will conduct investigations using Date's special functions in his left eye to gather information and track Iris's whereabouts. Throughout the game, familiar and new characters will appear, adding to the complexity of the unfolding mystery.
Gameplay involves exploring the eccentric dream world of potential suspects through the Somnium mechanic, allowing players to uncover clues and secret memories. Simultaneously, players must solve thrilling mysteries while navigating a locked environment. Successfully identifying the true answer beyond surface-level logic will unlock the door to escape, driving the narrative forward and revealing more about the overarching plot.
FUMES
This single-player game offers a straightforward and intense experience, drawing inspiration from the classic vehicular combat genre of the golden era. Players will engage in fast-paced gameplay, customizing their cars with weapons and equipping them with stickers. The game features driving physics reminiscent of old rally games, allowing for challenging off-road races against the fastest racers of the wastelands. Players will encounter waves of enemies, participate in intense chases, and deliver suspicious packages while escaping pursuit. The core gameplay loop involves battling giant bosses – monstrous vehicles – and earning new cars and parts by defeating them.
The game's environments are expansive and procedural, leading players to get lost in the desert and wander through endless landscapes. There are no loading screens or fast travel options, encouraging players to fully immerse themselves in the experience. A guitar-heavy soundtrack accompanies the action, and players can collect scrap to further customize their vehicles. The game focuses on pure, unadulterated mayhem, encouraging players to become "mayhem walkers" within this twisted world.
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings Game
Tales of the Shire offers players the opportunity to live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the serene landscape of the Shire, directly from J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved books. Players create their own Hobbit, personalising their appearance and attire, and then settle into a newly established, though not yet official, village in Bywater. The core gameplay revolves around decorating a personal Hobbit home with grid-free placement of furniture and décor, tending to a garden, fishing at clear ponds, foraging for wild fruits and herbs, and trading with townsfolk. Players prepare homemade meals to share with fellow Hobbits, fostering relationships and enjoying second breakfast or hosting dinner parties. Days are spent exploring the picturesque forests, lakes, and pastures of Bywater, experiencing the ever-changing weather and seasonal surprises.
Throughout the game, players actively contribute to helping the quaint town flourish by completing club missions to achieve official village status in Bywater. This involves daily activities, gaining rewards through story progression, and meeting iconic characters and familiar Hobbit families to trade for upgrades to skills, clothes, home, and more. The focus is on enjoying the little things and experiencing the idyllic life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire.
Grounded 2
The game presents a scenario where the player has been reduced to the size of an ant, transforming a familiar environment – a park – into a vast, uncharted wilderness. Players must navigate sprawling spaces now overtaken by nature, utilizing buggies that can both fight alongside them and gather resources. These buggies are central to survival, allowing players to hatch, raise, and ride insect companions, commanding them in battle and assisting in resource collection. The core gameplay loop involves traversing this overgrown landscape, uncovering hidden secrets, and adapting to the constant threats lurking within.
Survival is significantly enhanced through cooperation with friends, as the dangers of the park are formidable alone. Players can work together to build, fight, and uncover the mysteries hidden beneath the surface. However, a persistent and unknown threat constantly observes and learns the player's actions, growing closer with each discovery. This unseen force represents a significant danger, and seeking answers only deepens the player's predicament, suggesting a pervasive sense of dread and inescapable pursuit.
Terminull Brigade
Terminull Brigade is an action-roguelike co-op hero shooter set in futuristic digital worlds. Players must dive into the Nullverse, mastering a roster of Rogueteers to make the last stand against unfolding shadow algorithms. Each exploration features randomized challenges and rewards as players unravel the rich stories and mysteries of unique, captivating worlds. Players can choose their avatar from a selection of Rogueteers, each with a distinct personality, playstyle, and signature moves. The game emphasizes teamwork, with players being stronger together in online co-op, and encourages strategic combat against challenging bosses at the end of each dive.
Throughout each run, players collect loot to craft powerful weapons and mods, enhancing their gameplay and allowing for endless build possibilities. The game's core loop revolves around mastering a chosen Rogueteer, unlocking a rich talent tree, and customizing their abilities with mods. Every victory or defeat provides new insights and allows players to grow stronger, ensuring that each exploration into the Nullverse is a unique and rewarding experience.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound blends the classic lore and gameplay of the original Tecmo-developed NINJA GAIDEN series with the depth and intensity of the modern 3D entries. The story begins with Ryu Hayabusa traveling to America to fulfill his father's will, during which time the barrier between the human and demon worlds collapses, unleashing a terrifying army upon the Hayabusa Village. In Ryu's absence, Kenji Mozu, a young ninja trained by Ryu, rises to the challenge, but quickly finds himself in desperate straits. Forced to utilize forbidden power, Kenji forms an alliance with the sinister Black Spider Clan, believing that combining their souls and skills is the only way to protect the world from the Demon Lord.
Players control Kenji Mozu and the skilled assassin Kumori simultaneously, utilizing the Ninja Fusion to unleash devastating abilities and battle enemies. The game features impeccable mechanics that are easy to learn but difficult to master, appealing to both new and experienced fans of the NINJA GAIDEN series. The brutal, nostalgia-filled aesthetic of the game pays homage to the past while pushing the boundaries of modern pixel art, creating a visually stunning experience with meticulously crafted visuals and every enemy recreated with a level of detail previously impossible.
Earthion
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems by Ancient Corporation, led by legendary Japanese developer Yuzo Koshiro. Players guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi through eight chaotic levels, each featuring unique environments, enemies, and boss fights, in an effort to repel alien invaders and save planet Earth. The game is designed to push the original system to its absolute limits, offering a generation-defining experience and an unforgettable fight among the stars.
The game includes an original soundtrack from one of the most renowned composers of the 16-bit era, featuring 27 original tracks and an incredible soundscape of effects to transport players back to a golden age of retro gaming. Earthion was developed natively for classic 16-bit hardware and offers great quality of life features, including highly customizable scanline configurations to give an authentic retro experience on modern displays.
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