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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - AUTUMN SALE 2024

Vorark

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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.

 
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Dexter

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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:



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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.

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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.

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

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

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I'm not a Monster
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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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!

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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.

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

Modron

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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.
 

LESS T_T

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Codex 2014


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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.
 

Zombra

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Make the Codex Great Again! RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Codex Year of the Donut Codex+ Now Streaming! Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth

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

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



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



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Modron

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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
 

Ninjerk

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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.
 

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Yes, Your Grace, "kingdom management RPG":





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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, VR only thing but it seems to have actual, action RPG-ish gameplay with narrative C&C and resource management. Set in New Orelans:



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I have no idea why this has to be VR only, not VR supported.



Lost Empire 2977, some kind of sci-fi action RPG:





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Zombra

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Make the Codex Great Again! RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Codex Year of the Donut Codex+ Now Streaming! Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
agent XIII is up

Oh, nice! My CD of the original game got dirty so I couldn't reinstall it but I did want to play it again someday.

Seeing all these RPG hybrids coming out is so weird. I've never heard of 3/4 of them and I'll never play 96/100 of them. But if 12 year old me had had access to any - any - of these games, they would have become the complete focus of his young life. What a time to be a gamer.

EDIT: Will they keep the original Adam West voice acting, I wonder? :cry:

EDIT EDIT: Waaaaait, what kind of non-English speaking lunatics made this?
With questions not missing, neither are the bullets!
The XIII remake devs are based in Malta. Their native tongue is Maltese. I didn't even know that was a language until just now.
 
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Modron

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Some codex slav said the russian reviews were funny for Warsaw stating things like how Poles were an aggressor in world war 2 or something. So far it seems like the actual mixed reviews are mostly about difficulty.


A turnbased tacticool game from the guys behind the braveland series


Destiny 2 is on steam now as well


Yu-no remake/remaster/whatever is on steam
 

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