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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread
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Steam Sales Don't Matter
Steam Sales Don't Matter
it's out
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Yoba Games === Russian Developers
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This looks incredibly high quality for a shitpost game, the 2d art and animations are great WTF?
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https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/2769108226045128183
Steam Digital Tabletop Fest Debuts Oct 21
The first ever Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, celebrating games that cross between physical and digital, will make its debut October 21st thru 26th. Produced in collaboration with Auroch Digital, the event will feature virtual let’s plays, panels, talks and more streaming activities that explore the fusion between physical and digital games with legendary designers, upcoming studios, and you.
Working with Valve, indie studio Auroch Digital is helping curate the program of events and line up speakers such Sandy Petersen (Call of Cthulhu RPG, Quake, Cthulhu Wars and more!), Steve Jackson (Munchkin, Ogre, Car Wars and many more), Ian Livingstone (Co-founder of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy, Chairman Sumo Group plc), Elizabeth Hargrave (creator of the hit game Wingspan) and author and New Yorker writer Simon Parkin talks about how a board game helped the allies win WW2, among other topics.
Here’s a look at just some of the other wide-ranging activities happening during the event:
- Plague Inc: Evolved - Where James Vaughan, game designer of the digital and physical version plays the digital game's boardgame scenario while discussing the design of both versions.
- Othercide - The tactical-RPG blending strong art style, unique lore and challenging tactical gameplay, presented by its Art Director and Lead Game Designer.
- Gloomhaven - llivestream, featuring the developers, will discuss the upcoming content for the next major update of Gloomhaven’s Early Access on Steam.
- Virtual panel on games about Mars - Where game creators will be joined by actual space agency staff and scientists to ask what games get right and wrong about Mars.
- Virtual panel on Cthulhu games - Where some of the most notable Cthulhu-themed designers from digital and physical ask about the cultural impact of such titles and more.
Join in during the live broadcasts to chat to the devs about the topics of conversations and their games, or catch them via VOD if you can’t make the live steam. More panels and talks will be announced as the event gets closer.
The Steam Digital Tabletop Fest features games that run across the lines between digital and physical games; this can be a digital port of a physical game, a game which has produced a physical version from the digital one, a game that simulates the physical play experience, or a digital game whose aesthetics are inspired by tabletop games.
To learn more and to sign up to be reminded when the event begins on October 21st at 10am Pacific time, please visit https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tabletopfest
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Participating games in next week's Steam Game Festival. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gamefestival_schedule
Some Codex interest.
Black Legend
Dark Envoy
Revolution: The Spark
Stirring Abyss
Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
There are returning games like Solasta and Gamedec too. (Actually I wonder if Solasta's demo will be a new one considering that EA release is not far.)
Some Codex interest.
Black Legend
Dark Envoy
Revolution: The Spark
Stirring Abyss
Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
There are returning games like Solasta and Gamedec too. (Actually I wonder if Solasta's demo will be a new one considering that EA release is not far.)
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Full list for tomorrow:
Black Legend
Dark Envoy
Disjunction
Fabled Lands
Gamedec
Revolution: The Spark
Roadwarden
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Stirring Abyss
Tenderfoot Tactics
The Hand of Merlin
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Undungeon
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
And some strategy games:
Builders of Egypt
Partisans 1941
Stronghold: Warlords
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Festival is officially live: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamgamefestival?tab=6
Missing demos: Dark Envoy, Revolution: The Spark
Missing demos: Dark Envoy, Revolution: The Spark
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Eterna: Heroes Fall, turn-based fantasy RPG spans over decades with generations of characters. Aesthetics look like some kind of mobile game tbh.
It has a demo for the festival.
Slaves of Magic... Prelude. Sort of combat demo for some kind of fantasy tactics. It's not out for the festival.
Ziggurat 2, the sequel to 2014 fantasy roguelite FPS. It looks more cartoony than the previous game, almost WoW-ish:
It has a demo for the festival.
Slaves of Magic... Prelude. Sort of combat demo for some kind of fantasy tactics. It's not out for the festival.
Ziggurat 2, the sequel to 2014 fantasy roguelite FPS. It looks more cartoony than the previous game, almost WoW-ish:
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It's a gimmick, but it's kinda a cute gimmick:
Anyway, if you haven't played Yakuza 0 you owe it to yourself to do so now:
And some of the best RTS games of the 2000s:
Krivol
Magister
Most importantly all those sega megadrive/genesis classics are quite cheap right now
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13945/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/
I know 99% of us already has them on emulators, but for those who want to have it 100% legal it's not a bad deal.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13945/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/
I know 99% of us already has them on emulators, but for those who want to have it 100% legal it's not a bad deal.
Baron Dupek
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I wanted to get the rest of the original Sonic games when they gave away Sonic 2 (one of the first games I ever played), and it was like a dollar more to get the rest of the titles. It's got a lot going for it, rather than just being a UX shell over an emulator.
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Regarding the Steam Game Festival...
Party Animals: Played a few rounds with a buddy, seems boring and repetitive. WYSIWYG game about cutesy animals hitting each other in Multiplayer trying to throw each other off a platform.
The Survivalists: Acceptable, but kinda boring too. Reminded me a bit of Don't Starve, but worse. Maybe something if you're into that kind of stuff and looking for something new.
UnDungeon: The pleasant surprise from some of the Demos I tried lately, and relatively promising. Seems to be a Russian-developed ARPG but with a lot of Multiple-choice dialogues and generally a lot of lore. The story seems to be about 7 Multidimensional earths merging together and some of the Cinematics I've seen so far seem snazzy enough, even though they're Pixely:
It has a bit of a Fallout feel to it too with you traveling a Wasteland via an Overland map containing things like non-combat settlements, temples, ruins etc. while the weirdness of the world and the characters you meet are closer to Planescape. There's lots of exploration of new places and travel takes days getting between two points of interest (although so far I can't see a time-mechanic that would make you hurry up). You have to dig for more information about where interesting places might be nearby through dialogue or exploration and need to do shit like find or buy a Translation device to be able to talk to the locals. There's also random Encounters on the map from Ambushes to other combat encounters or meeting Traveling vendors and whatnot.
There's Barter Trading where you can offer up items to get items, if you do favors for the specific Nomadic tribes they won't Markup their wares quite as much. You have Arm/Chest/Head/Unavailable item pieces that influence your combat skills and abilities, they usually have a main ability and a "charge" ability. Changing them can change the gameplay rather drastically. For instance there are pairs of claws that act more like AoE hitting a wider field in front of you, you can switch them against high-impact point claws or ranged ones you can shoot things with. The chest slot usually has some sort of shield ability (whether one-hit or specific amount of damage) and something else, for instance you can lay exploding mines or similar), but there's also chest-pieces that can make you invisible or similar. The head slot seems to be for Evasion and kiting. Along with three items that falls into the throwable/healing/bombs category and shit like Runes to increase Skills like Barter or general combat stuff Damage, Armor, Shield, HP, Critical etc. and you can Upgrade your internal Organs by crafting better ones from parts you find off slain enemies (the only player character in the Demo so far is some sort of Void Lich).
The gameplay itself might not exactly be the best I've seen in all ARPGs, but the interesting lore, design and other elements kind of make up for it - while some ARPGs get boring because 97% is just clicking things dead there's a lot of other things to do here and the Quests seem varied enough, at least so far.
The Demo is relatively long (like 6-7 hours, the complete First Chapter), you should at least give this a try if you enjoy RPGs.
For Adventure Games fans, gonna be trying these soon, especially the first seems Monkey Island-y:
Conquistadors vs. Samurai? From the Trailer at least it seems kinda interesting (although there's no Demo), seems to be an MMO though:
Party Animals: Played a few rounds with a buddy, seems boring and repetitive. WYSIWYG game about cutesy animals hitting each other in Multiplayer trying to throw each other off a platform.
The Survivalists: Acceptable, but kinda boring too. Reminded me a bit of Don't Starve, but worse. Maybe something if you're into that kind of stuff and looking for something new.
UnDungeon: The pleasant surprise from some of the Demos I tried lately, and relatively promising. Seems to be a Russian-developed ARPG but with a lot of Multiple-choice dialogues and generally a lot of lore. The story seems to be about 7 Multidimensional earths merging together and some of the Cinematics I've seen so far seem snazzy enough, even though they're Pixely:
It has a bit of a Fallout feel to it too with you traveling a Wasteland via an Overland map containing things like non-combat settlements, temples, ruins etc. while the weirdness of the world and the characters you meet are closer to Planescape. There's lots of exploration of new places and travel takes days getting between two points of interest (although so far I can't see a time-mechanic that would make you hurry up). You have to dig for more information about where interesting places might be nearby through dialogue or exploration and need to do shit like find or buy a Translation device to be able to talk to the locals. There's also random Encounters on the map from Ambushes to other combat encounters or meeting Traveling vendors and whatnot.
There's Barter Trading where you can offer up items to get items, if you do favors for the specific Nomadic tribes they won't Markup their wares quite as much. You have Arm/Chest/Head/Unavailable item pieces that influence your combat skills and abilities, they usually have a main ability and a "charge" ability. Changing them can change the gameplay rather drastically. For instance there are pairs of claws that act more like AoE hitting a wider field in front of you, you can switch them against high-impact point claws or ranged ones you can shoot things with. The chest slot usually has some sort of shield ability (whether one-hit or specific amount of damage) and something else, for instance you can lay exploding mines or similar), but there's also chest-pieces that can make you invisible or similar. The head slot seems to be for Evasion and kiting. Along with three items that falls into the throwable/healing/bombs category and shit like Runes to increase Skills like Barter or general combat stuff Damage, Armor, Shield, HP, Critical etc. and you can Upgrade your internal Organs by crafting better ones from parts you find off slain enemies (the only player character in the Demo so far is some sort of Void Lich).
The gameplay itself might not exactly be the best I've seen in all ARPGs, but the interesting lore, design and other elements kind of make up for it - while some ARPGs get boring because 97% is just clicking things dead there's a lot of other things to do here and the Quests seem varied enough, at least so far.
The Demo is relatively long (like 6-7 hours, the complete First Chapter), you should at least give this a try if you enjoy RPGs.
For Adventure Games fans, gonna be trying these soon, especially the first seems Monkey Island-y:
Conquistadors vs. Samurai? From the Trailer at least it seems kinda interesting (although there's no Demo), seems to be an MMO though:
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