The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[SausageInYourFace]

How to update a timeless classic in such a way that it surely gives you a seizure.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

You know kids these days. Everything has to be flashy as possible to appeal to their ADD.

 

[theSavant]

How can people play this without getting epileptic seizures? Had to switch off the trailer because it's too flashy.

 

[LESS T_T]

Well it was originally meant to be played on small screens of portable consoles.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

How is that better? Now its garish and hard to see due to how small everything is.

 

[Zednick]

Actually, the flashiness is not that bad when you play it. You just . . . filter it out. Which begs the question of why it's there to begin with.

That said, I'm more interested in the games that should be in the pipeline. Space Invaders: Infinity Gene or Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders--even a decent Taito Legends port--are the things to get excited about.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Tetripz! is the poster-boy example of taking a classic game and purposefully making it flash and twist and spin on the player, to the point that they either have a seizure or throw up.

OBVIOUSLY someone figured that there would be money in that kind of crap, so here's Taito with a similar rendition of Space Invaders.

I had trouble enough with them adding rhythm-based game mechanics to the game, but that wasn't good enough it seems.

 

[Outlander]

All this Taito talk reminded me of:

 

[LESS T_T]

5 Inforgrames re-release coming from Piko Interactive's Classics Digital label:

 

[Zombra]

oh my fucking god drakkhen

 

[Unkillable Cat]

oh my fucking god drakkhen

Now THIS will be a salt mine for new users. They'll either go into the castle and get fucking nowhere, or go to the fountain and get murdered by the monster there. Cue multiple rage posts.

Also I'm fairly certain Drakkhen can do better than EGA graphics on the PC.

It's nice to see Eternam as well, but the real there is Bubble Ghost.

 

[LESS T_T]

Doggie Shock. A first person shooter where you explore a Soviet space station taken over by the space dog Laika and her robot dog armies:

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board the spacecraft was a single dog, named Laika. When Laika returned to Earth, the Soviet scientists discovered something profound: dogs in space experience extreme cognitive enhancement. The following year the Soviet space program would be dedicated solely to studying the effects of space on canine intelligence...

The Communist Dogifesto is a science fiction first-person shooter set on a Soviet space station in Lunar orbit, which has been used as a platform for experimentation on the Russian space dogs. Unfortunately, dogs this deep in space have more tricks in their vac suit than the scientists accounted for. Now Laika has taken over and you are the only one left who can take back the station, or at least attempt to escape with your life!

In order to survive and defeat Laika and her robotic footsoldiers, you will have to gain new abilities with tech upgrades, recycle scrap materials you find lying around into usable items, read data logs written by the ousted humans to find keycodes and to explore new areas of the station, and do a lot of good old fashioned shooting!

Features a hand-designed space station to explore, eight unique tech upgrades to choose from, pages of in-universe data logs from the scientists and other staff which reveal the nature of the work done on the station as well as vital information to access new areas and items, and several different endings based on in-game actions.

 

[d1nolore]

Haha that's a pretty funny creative looking game.

I might actually buy it if its cheap.

 

[LESS T_T]

5 Inforgrames re-release coming from Piko Interactive's Classics Digital label:

One more from Infogrames catalog, rail shooter Chaos Control:

 

[LESS T_T]

Yet another post-apocalyptic "RPG" from Russia, but your character get diseases instead of skills:

Perhaps you did something terrible in your past life and now you are here - in this endless desert where your ultimate goal is to live as long as possible.

You’ll see RPG the other way around: choose diseases instead of skills. You should think what would be better: to be blind in one eye or to suffer from narcolepsy. In the end, if you are lucky, you’ll achieve the highest level - a calm and peaceful death.

Crowds of predators are eager to have you as a lunch, thugs would love to flay you living, strangers are ready to spare you from burdens of this world. You may not have endless illnesses, injuries - and still, it would be hard to stay alive.

If you don't go crazy in your efforts to live another day day, then representatives of the local society will definitely drive you to madness.

- RPG the other way round
You have all chances to survive until you get one of the many diseases of your burden. What would you choose: sleepwalking or hallucination?

- Difficulty
Try to set up your home avoiding all the dangers of the world where each inhabitant is willing to eat or rob you.

- Adventures are looking for you
Game events will occur when you least expect it, extraordinary situations and black humor, what else do you need for adventures?

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

That actually sounds really interesting. No idea how it would play out though. Is there an actual objective, or is it just a sandbox survival game?

 

[Jimmious]

40 Shades of Brown would be another name for this game

 

[Latelistener]

You’ll see RPG the other way round: choose diseases instead of skills. Survive in the world of limited resources and constant danger.

So realistic.

 

[Turisas]

Week-long sale, doesn't go any lower than that so

 

[LESS T_T]

Scavenger SV-4, a first-person sci-fi game where you are alone in a ship orbiting an alien planet, and you control a remote rover to explore it:

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game.

You are alone on your ship, in orbit above an undiscovered alien planet.

The windswept surface below is a radioactive wasteland. In orbit, the radiation levels are dangerous. Landing there would kill you in seconds, even through your spacesuit.

You have a remote control rover drone. The signal is weak and the interference is strong - the video feed is grainy with static. Use it to explore the surface of the planet, the derelict structures there, and the remains of alien machinery long dead... or perhaps just dormant.

Pilot your rover, bring back samples, and research them in the science lab. Use the objects you've found to enhance your rover. Try to figure out what happened here. Each time you start a new game, you are someone else, with a different story and unknown mysteries waiting on a new planet. With luck, you might leave with a cargo hold full of priceless alien artifacts and be wealthy for life.

Be careful. Bad things sometimes happen to lone explorers far from home.

Scavenger SV-4 is genre defiant - part simulator, part roguelike, with elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Looks rough but the premise and hybrid concept sounds interesting.


Also cross-posting from The Random Adventure Game News Thread, since these deserve more attention imo:

1998 horror text adventure Anchorhead is coming to Steam by the author himself:



With illustrations added:

You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.

Anchorhead is a text adventure game in the style of classic Infocom games from the 1980s. No graphics, no menus, no point-and-click — you navigate a written story using typed commands, and read what happens next.

Travel to the haunted coastal town of Anchorhead, Massachusetts and uncover the roots of a horrific conspiracy inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Search through musty archives and tomes of esoteric lore; dodge hostile townsfolk; combat a generation-spanning evil that threatens your family and the entire world. A sprawling, meticulously detailed setting, brought to life by finely crafted prose and illustrated with dozens of spine-chilling illustrations, ensures that the story will stay with you long after you finish playing the game.

A sullen belch emanates from the clouds, and the rain starts coming down harder — fat, cold drops smacking loudly against the cobblestones. Shouldn't it be snowing in New England at this time of year? With a sigh, you open your umbrella.

Welcome to Anchorhead . . .

Lisssn, "a point-and-click adventure game for listeners" by the developer of RHEM:

"Lisssn" is a point-and-click adventure game for listeners in the style of adventure classics such as "RHEM" with many puzzles and mysterious machines to set in motion. But instead of having only to look closely and to combine, this one is especially about hearing and listening closely. The player is thus carefully introduced into the basic ideas of music.

At the beginning of the game we learn that "La Musica", the music, was kidnapped by dark forces and imprisoned in a dungeon. We are facing a future without her bewitching sounds, which have made the world so much more colorful. In the search for the abducted, the player explores numerous locations such as a dark park, a scary cemetery, a mysterious castle and a huge underground world with a lake and a strange underground railway. Accompanied by four well-known composers, the player must overcome obstacles, initiate mechanisms, collect objects, and find hidden ways to finally free "La Musica" from her dungeon.

The riddles were arranged carefully: At the beginning it is easy to distinguish sounds from noises, later different pitches and finally notes and rhythms have to be recognized. "Lisssn" is a game that is suitable for both children and adults, where the player collects musical experiences while playing.

features:

- Non-violent and nonlinear playing principle
- numerous, didactically arranged puzzles
- Learn some basic concepts of music
- From the people who created the mysteries of the RHEM series

 

[Baron Dupek]

Good to hear.
I heard that either H&D or H&D2 on GOG have nasty thing inside (malware or else) and now wonder if they fixed it and "does that include Steam release or it's clean"?

 

[LESS T_T]

Popup Dungeon, a papercraft roguelike RPG where many things are customizable

And here is a new game by Limbic Entertainment (Might & Magic Heroes 6, MMXL), multiplayer survival shooter set in Mars published by 505 Games:

 

[Gepeu]

multiplayer survival shooter

Dead in a week.

 

[mastroego]

Fuck multiplayer.
May it die multiple deaths.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I heard that either H&D or H&D2 on GOG have nasty thing inside

Just false positives man.