Will clamber onto Steam in September If you like jumping on enveloping pixelly architecture while basking in an atmosphere of pathological sadness, set aside some time on 20th September, because that’s when Rubeki’s first-person spelunkerLorn’s Lurelaunches on Steam. Ah, I’ve been waiting a while for this one. Catch a new trailer below. Lorn’s Lure is the tale of an android who is chasing a weird visual glitch through an enormous, dreary, dystopian edifice made up of retro 90s PC textures....

So I can point my staff and ask questions, instead of thwacking everything Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins all have one thing in common: they’ve got aDiscovery mode, which replaces murdering with learning. You can, quite literally, go on tours curated by historians around each of the game’s respective maps. Instead of diving off a Sphinx and plunging your hidden blade into someone’s spinal column, you can look up at the Sphinx and read a paragraph on its significance....

Defenestration trilogy indeed I’m still a little giddy over how much I enjoyed lucarne-lobbingpuzzlerTactical Breach Wizards. So much so that I mentioned inmy reviewhow I’m well up for another run of its fifteen hour campaign. I’d already got a few missions into hard mode. There’s no more starting mana points! It’s a real…pane. Now, I might have to start again, even if going out of my way to grab the tapes added in its developer’s commentary mode is going to be extra tricky....

Titans DLC to up the scale One of my formative video game moments is the final mission of Psygnosis cyberpunk flight sim G-Police. (It came out in 1997, and as such, I think the statute of limitations on spoilers has passed, but if you still intend to play, stop reading now.) The mission completes the long arc of foreshadowing begun by the intro’s mention that capital-class spacecraft have been outlawed, following a ruinous war....

Load of ballgowns Take the ballroom scene from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, swap the wailing utensils for an army of chibi cats, endow Belle with low-key Doctor Manhattan-grade powers of matter transformation, and you’re perhapsbeginningto approximate the experience ofInfinity Nikki- anopen worlddress-up adventure from Singapore-based Infold and former Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild developer Kentaro Tominaga. Some plot gleaned froma recent Ian Games preview: princess or princess-adjacent heroine Nikki is rifling through her wardrobe for an outfit when she discovers an enchanted dress....

Best head to the Bull Ring, grab some supplies As the sole Brummie left un-zombified, you’ve got to do survival game things: forage, craft tools, and weapons, hunt for food and build a nice little shelter to hunker down in. Birmingham itself will be home to markets, boarded up smithies and the Church of St.Martin in the iconic Bull Ring market, apparently. While I wouldn’t say the trailer above shows any of this, the game’s aiming for “physics-based mechanics” that let you outwit the horde....

Ring the bells to start a hidden quest in Black Myth Wukong Looking for the Black Myth Wukong bell locations?If you find and ring the three hidden bells in Chapter 1 of the game’s storyline, you will unlock a secret area. Beware that this mysterious place is home to a dangerous boss, but defeating this fiend is rewarded with a powerful Vessel that grants protection against burn damage. In other words, it’s best not to miss this bell-ringing side quest....

From the makers of Say No! More In Reignbreaker, you are Clef, a liberated former child soldier of the mad monarch’s private guard. You’re back inside her gargantuan stronghold to bash up her automaton army, take out her Loyalist underlings, and generally smash the state, likely dying a few dozen times along the way but always returning for another jaunt into the bastion’s depths. Your weapons: a pair of giant lockpick-shaped spears, perfect for delivering a killing blow to the giant lock-shaped mechs that form the bulk of enemy ranks, and shattering their metal mechanisms to bits....

Here are all release times for Star Wars Outlaws Looking for the Star Wars Outlaws release time?Star Wars Outlawsis set between the Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi films and features the story of Kay Vess, a criminal who must obtain favour between three battling underworld syndicates. If this sounds appealing to you, you’ll need to know theStar Wars Outlawsrelease time and date to prepare ahead of time. Below we have both the global release time and the early access release time for those who have pre-ordered either the Gold or Ultimate editions of the game....

Thou bred raptors? Technically, y’see, you only ever really control the one noble dude, who’s been put in charge of defending the kingdom after those sly Danes fished out some living dinosaurs from the Greenland ice fields. You push him around, deploy abilities from his little ARPG hotbar, and most crucially, will only ever see the world from the isometric camera locked permanently onto his bonce. You still order the construction of buildings and castle ramparts, and give orders to amassed troop units in defence against the bitey horde – it still plays very much like an RTS in that sense – but your perspective never shifts....

Pfhorst person shooter Earlier this year, Bungie’s 1990s sci-fi shooter,Marathon, came to Steamfor free. AndMarathon 2followed in July. But this series is a trilogy. Where’s the third one? I want the thir– oh, it’s here now. Yesterday, the final game,Marathon Infinitytrickledonto the storefront, offering a neat little bundle for fans of retro shooters. But it’s also a reminder that we’ve yet to see more of Bungie’s upcoming reboot. As a finale, Infinity followed closely after the second game, coming out in 1996, back when sequels were released not even a year apart....

Let them eat clockwork Everything I know about the French Revolution has hitherto come from two literary works: Hilary Mantel’s excellent doorstopperA Place Of Greater Safety, andKate Beaton’s webcomics. Neither Mantel nor Beaton mention mechs, which are a core feature of Studio Imugi’s new “ideology driven” turn-based strategy gameBonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution. I, for one, feel like I’ve been grossly ill-informed. Kate, Hilary - I’ve been quoting you for years at parties and it seems like all this time, people have been silently judging me for my ignorance of the role giant clockwork soldiers played in the fall of the Bastille....

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