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One of John Wick 4’s most exhilarating moments was inspired by a top-down indie shooter
The latest installment of the John Wick series dropped last weekend, crushing its franchise record opening weekend with a massive $73.5 million. We’ve been watching Baba Yaga shoot, stab, run over, and blow up dozens of chuds every few…
One million copies and 5000 mods later, Teardown’s creator is just getting started
Teardown, the highly-destructible puzzle game that we declared the "Best Sandbox" of 2022 (opens in new tab), will one day get multiplayer. In an interview with PC Gamer at GDC 2023, Teardown creator Dennis Gustafsson and Tuxedo Labs CEO…
Fight rat hordes with steam guns in this tactical, squad-based survival RPG
An upcoming turn-based tactical RPG will put players' choice of survivors against a horde of giant, mutated rats in the struggle to cross the ruins of a fallen city and survive another day. Shardpunk: Verminfall will release on April 13,…
Be a swamp devil, cause chaos, steal stuff, in this lo-fi immersive sim
What has eight eyes, a tail, and stabs people in the dark so it can steal their stuff? You, probably, once you download the demo for Brush Burial, a retro-inspired Thief-ish immersive sim about being a horrible little swamp devil named…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 27, 2023)
On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play…
Sludge Life is free on Steam because Sludge Life 2 is coming later this year
Sludge Life is a "vandalism and photography sim (opens in new tab)" that launched on the Epic Games Store in 2020 and then came to Steam a year later. It's a weird but oddly compelling first-person open world game about the drudgeries of…
Last long enough in this sci-fi survival colony builder, and you can buy the whole planet
One of the most interesting systems in early access colony survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn (opens in new tab) is that you can eventually rescue all of your survivors, who begin the game after crashing their spaceship on a hostile alien…
Oh god I’m gonna play 300 hours of Risk of Rain again
There was a specific satisfaction in Risk of Rain that I could never get in its fantastic sequel: putting my back to the wall as the riot cop-esque Enforcer, planting my shield in the ground and tanking an endless stream of enemies for my…
This mythological hunting game from an ex-Skyrim dev is coming sooner than I thought
The Axis Unseen (opens in new tab), a heavy metal bowhunting game from longtime Bethesda dev Nate Purkeypile (head and sole member of Just Purkey Games), got a fresh trailer at the Future Game Show: Spring Showcase. The trailer revealed…
Disco Elysium studio declares ‘resolution’ of legal battle while two of its ousted…
On March 14, Eurogamer (opens in new tab) and GamesIndustry.biz (opens in new tab) reported on a ZA/UM press release that declared the resolution of its legal dispute with founding member and Disco Elysium producer Kaur Kender, while also…