The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Life of the Party]

 

[LESS T_T]

A Conquest Unfinished
Duke William of Normandy tasted victory at the Battle of Hastings, but not without paying a price in blood. While he afterwards took London and held a hasty coronation, he succumbed to his wounds shortly thereafter. His young son, William Rufus, succeeded him — an easily controlled puppet for the other Norman lords.

Meanwhile in the north Earls Morcar and Edwin, with the cooperation of Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, propped up their own puppet king in Edgar the Ætheling. These pretenders of the House of Godwin never relinquished their claim on the English throne, though the opportunity to press it has thus far eluded them.

A tense peace descended upon the land. Now, fifty years later, the status quo is nearing its end. Can you, the grandson of William the Bastard, finish that which he began?

Game Features

• Play the role of a young Norman king of a fractured England
  
• Text-based strategy gameplay
  
• Balance the interests of competing factions
  
• Live the best life you can; you will be judged by your legacy
  
• Meaningful choices with real consequences, not merely a choice of three colors
  
• Deep, simulation-driven event system
  
• Judicious use of procedural generation ensures replayability
  
• Hard historical fiction which rejects fantasy and popular tropes
  
• Artwork in the style of an illuminated manuscript
  
• Early music soundtrack based on real medieval compositions
  
• Words: many fine, hand-picked words
  
• Conquest and map painting, if such is your fancy

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Tower of Time is on sale

 

[baud]

The Tomb raider games are on sale

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Modron]

Cat Quest gets a sequel, the first installment was a decent time waster rpglite that didn't outstay its welcome.


A game made entirely for RK47 available for the low low price of nothing.



The Surge 2 landed today as well.


A Power Rangers fighting game, I guess that genre makes more sense for a Power Rangers game than that Voltron puzzle game a month back.

 

[Vorark]

A Power Rangers fighting game, I guess that genre makes more sense for a Power Rangers game than that Voltron puzzle game a month back.

Reminds me of that megazord fighting game for the SNES - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition"



Edit - Unrelated trivia, but the game plays, looks and sounds similar to Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. No wonder, since it was also developed by Natsume and published by Bandai. Good games, btw.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

A Power Rangers fighting game, I guess that genre makes more sense for a Power Rangers game than that Voltron puzzle game a month back.

Reminds me of that megazord fighting game for the SNES - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition"

reminded me of an avgn episode, probably covered it in here I guess

 

[Dexter]

It's a X-COM like Turn-Based Strategy game combined with a "Who's the Werewolf/Killer" gameplay, and for some reason they started with the Multiplayer portion and are now trying to crowdfund a SinglePlayer campaign. The Multiplayer version where you can play together with/against other players in 6-player matches (where some people are the Monster and other players are trying to discover who they are and kill them or rescue civilians) was available for free on Steam last weekend and from what I've played even the gameplay seems somewhat solid, if not a bit limited.

Art and direction though is definitely top notch:

Spoiler

• A visual style inspired by ’60s fantasy and comic books. All assets are hand drawn.
• Unique sound-processing technology with real degraded film to evoke that special retrofuturistic vibe.
• A story campaign set in the world of I’m Not a Monster. It's just what players have been clamoring for!
• The tangled story of first contact and the secret behind the destruction of the spaceliner Albatross, which the authorities have been covering up for years.

• More than 10 unique and interesting characters. They aren’t all what they seem, and they aren’t all interested in being saved – and we’re not just talking about the monsters.
• Around 20 unique locations ranging from secret compartments in the huge spaceliner, to open space, to the surface of a mysterious planet.
• Over 10 hours of gameplay packed with paranoia, mistrust and desperate attempts to escape the doomed liner.

First Contact tells the story of the very first interaction between humankind and extraterrestrial monsters, and uncovers the secret of the destruction of the spaceliner Albatross, which the authorities have been covering up for years.

Players should expect treachery and scheming, a cast full of colorful characters with intertwining stories, and the shocking truth behind the reason for the Kaa’raxian attacks.

But none of it will be what you expect; we want to turn these genre clichés on their heads.

I'm not a Monster: First Contact (alfa)

• We successfully made and released two games. So, we know what we do.
• We have a Publisher who is also responsible for keeping Kickstarter promises.
• I’m not a Monster: First Contact - Will use the technologies of the existing I’m Not a Monster project so we will be able to fulfill our main promise and release the project until the end of 2019.

I’m Not a Monster is a turn-based multiplayer strategy game with randomly assigned roles. We’ve fashioned an atmosphere of mistrust and deception by combining the social elements of board games like Mafia and Werewolf with classic turn-based gameplay.

I'm not a Monster

I'm not a Monster
We’re also huge fans of John Carpenter’s The Thing, as well as the trappings of the original Star Trek. We worked hard to recreate the retro-futuristic style of the ’60s – and judging by the feedback, we succeeded.

We’ve received many suggestions from our players since the launch of I’m Not a Monster. Nearly everyone has asked us to create a captivating single-player campaign based on the same gameplay.

In truth (and remember, we write nothing but the truth on Kickstarter), we’d already given this some thought when we started working on the original I’m Not a Monster multiplayer mode, and had even commenced working on it. We had a huge rough draft of the script – which kept growing and growing – as well as a pile of sketches and prototypes.

The feedback and suggestions from our fans prompted us to rethink our plans.

We want to use Kickstarter to speed up our work on I’m Not a Monster: First Contact as much as possible so we can release it in late 2019 – if not earlier!

In essence, First Contact is a full-fledged single-player mode that will be available to every owner of the original I’m Not a Monster FOR FREE.

Did this get a SinglePlayer campaign despite the KickStarter failing? Just saw it on the front page of Steam:

 

[Modron]

In today's episode of stuff getting released that isn't Stygian or Encased I present:

The Executioner got released.


A Legionary's Life came out yesterday, want to hear more codex impressions on this myself.


From the guys behind the Underground Man and the Mercury Man follows suit with another retro inspired game.


Noita landed on early access yesterday.


Just wanted to post this nucontra installment because boy is it taking a beating in the reviews :D.


Seriously in these next 30 days we have Encased, Stygian, Six Ages, and Disco Elysium coming out I am pretty pumped.

 

[J_C]

I don't have anything to do with this game, but I'm posting it because I need the moneyz.

 

[Modron]

Incline Edition:
Stygian darkens our shores now.



Encased also began early access today.

Annoying taste in trailer muzak but still looks good.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

First Kingmaker goes on 50% and now Elex on 67%

My shekels...

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Summoner for a dollar

Darksiders 3 is 66% off

 

[LESS T_T]

You’re roaring an 80s muscle car down the interstate when you see someone snatched by something dreadful in the darkness. You save them, but they pull a gun and steal your car.

You walk to a diner. It feels safe. As night falls, noises in the darkness outside scare the hell out of you anyway. The door crashes open and something unseen slides in and you’re cornered. Now there’s a woman with a baseball bat beating the things over the head. Guess you can trust her. For now.

Grand Theft Cthulhu
Dead Static Drive is a horror survival adventure. You're on the road. The world begins to fall apart in front of you. Your friendships will make every bit of difference as order collapses and the people you meet fight for their own survival. Sneak, scavenge, fight, befriend, barricade and bunker-in or steal a car and drive off into the sunset. There's no escape; there's only what you choose to do with the little time that's left.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

getting bored with the cthulhu games already tbh

 

[Zombra]

Looks interesting! 3/4 view survival horror with a contemporary art style. Looks like it doesn't have a fixed protagonist, either. I wonder if it's roguelike, or what. rusty_shackleford It doesn't appear to be a cthulhu game really, just a monster game. I wonder if it actually does the "mythos" at all or just used that as a buzzword. Anyway a title of this kind is all down to gameplay quality and there's no reason yet to believe this will actually be good. But will keep an eye on.

 

[LESS T_T]

Rebel Inc: Escalation, political/military strategic simulation from the developers of Plague Inc.:

Homer's Odyssey, illustrated text adventure with card game boss fights based on the epic:

 

[Black Plague]

 

[Modron]

Heroes of a Broken Land 2 by WingedPixel just landed on early access


Might as well round out with weeaboo souls since nobody posted it


Here are few point and click adventures of the last couple days



Another Mirrorsoft retro rerelease

 

[Baron Dupek]

agent XIII is up

In today's episode of stuff getting released that isn't Stygian or Encased I present:
A Legionary's Life came out yesterday, want to hear more codex impressions on this myself.

it's gut
go grab it

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I'll definitely throw HoBL2 on the wishlist. The first was really interesting even if it was far too slow paced and grindy.

 

[LESS T_T]

Techland's Crime Cities (2000) re-released on Steam:

 

[pOcHa]

reminds me of G-Police

 

[Ninjerk]

reminds me of G-Police

Remind me of my favorite level from... I can't remember if it was Dark Forces or DF2:JK--Nar Shaddaa(?), a location only described in the expanded universe books up until that point and seeing those flying cars and wondering whether I could get on them and where they would take me............. ah, to be young.