Cthulhull breach! After a hard day’s editing articles about threeDisco Elysiumspiritual successors - eachmorepoliticallyoutspokenthan the last, in a kind of Sophisticated Pooh collage of escalating Marxism - I like to kick back with a nice chill game about Lovecraftian space monsters. That game is Konafa Game’sStarless Abyss- a roguelite tactical deckbuilder published byDescendersand Yes, Your Grace outfit No More Robots. It puts you in command of a fleet of upgradeable spaceships, who must chase away invadingEldritchaliens hex by hex… and also, hex by hex....

Created by the Post Void devs “Post Voidis a masterpiece of compulsive motion and hypnotic, irresistible sounds,“wrote Sinof YCJY Games’s “orgiastic” shooter. “It does something to my brain that I’ve never experienced before.” The developer’s just-announcedKeep Drivingseems a lot less inclined to scramble your grey matter, though it’s partial to the old rose-tinted goggles. It’s a droll, backward-glancing andslightlyominous 2D managementRPGin which you drive to a music festival on the other side of the country....

Hit the griddy, help the city Indonesian indie developers stellarNULL have announced actionadventure gameMentari, a coming of age story about a magical girl who heals the world and fights baddies with the power of dance. As they attack you, you’ll hit them with sick twirls and the ‘ol two step, cleansing them of a sickness called the “Stillness”. Bonus fun fact: Mentari means “Sunshine” in Indonesian, while Menari means “dancing”....

Where we’re going, we don’t need anti-aliasing Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Few games demonstrate the disconnect between graphics and aesthetic likeMetaphor: ReFantazio. A pure technical analysis would conclude that it has the fidelity of an early Nintendo Switch game at best, and yet anyone whose heart flickers with even the tiniest ember of sentiment will instantly fall in love with its lavish pause screen animations....

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Victoria 3 launching without proper warfare was a “fail”, acknowledges deputy CEO Fire up the Steam page forStellaris, one of my favourite space sims, and you will see 28 pieces of DLC, ranging from free character portraits to £35 expansion passes that span a bunch of species and story packs. StablemateEuropa Universalis 4has 37 DLC packs under its banner, whileCities Skylinesis streets ahead with a whopping 62. Paradox Interactive have long built their core game business around putative forever-projects that trail an enormous mantle of paid expansions....

Due to coming California legislation Steam now shows customers a message to let them know that they’re buying a license when making a purchase through the storefront, rather than any outright ownership. The change has been implemented internationally in response to new California legislation due to take effect next year. When viewing a game in your Steam shopping cart, a message is now shown under the “Continue to payment” button. “A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” it reads....

With a worker’s co-operative structure that includes a “voice of the gamers” ThosetwootherDisco Elysium"spiritual successors" you read about today were but filthy pretenders, or at best, the thesis and antithesis resulting in this afternoon’s triumphant synthesis.* TherealDisco Elysium spiritual successor is whatever they’re making at Summer Eternal, a just-announced “art collective/RPG studio” founded by a group of, once more with feeling, former Disco Elysium developers. The press release for this particular Disco Elysiulike has the most actual names on it of the three we’ve learned about this week....

RIP in peace Core Design Tomb Raider 1-3 got theremaster treatmentearlier this year, and surprise surprise, nowTomb Raider IV-VI Remasteredis on the way. That’ll include Angel Of Darkness, of course, the entry of the sexology that could most obviously benefit from some TLC. The set are due to release on February 14th for £25, andthey’re up on Steam now. Core Design released the first five Tomb Raider games on a yearly schedule from 1996 to 2000, but The Angel Of Darkness was intended to modernise the series and make the leap onto PlayStation 2....

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XXX gonna give it to you You have woken to the sound of multiple formerDisco Elysiumdevelopers arguing inside your own skull. They are bickering about whose game is the true spiritual successor to the rockbottom detectiveRPG. Is it theunnamed project announced earlier todayby new studio Longdue, involving some kind of “psychogeography mechanic”? Or is it this one,XXX Nightshift, a cerebral sci-fi RPG set in a posh polar hotel about a detective “solving gruesome murders, breaking sacred hearts, or just killing bloody time”?...

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Ibex your pardon I wonder if there’s a word for this, where years of beaming ever-more lavish visuals into your eyes tricks you into perceiving long-unplayed games as looking more modern than they did. Alice0 (RPS in peace) enjoyed how theHalf-Life: Ray Traced modmade the game still look old but in a newer way; kind of like that, except the changes only exist in your head, and can’t be downloaded from GitHub....