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Build villainous lairs and wreck others’ dreams in this puzzly tile-placing game
Newly-appointed lair architect to the evil mastermind, your job is to build the best lair. The competition? The... other minions of the evil mastermind. Whoever builds the best lair wins. That's the setup to Chambers of Devious Design, a…
No more Deltarune this year, but here’s a look at what’s coming
Today marks the seven-year anniversary of Undertale, a one-person project that was not only a love letter to the JRPGs of old but took their best ideas, twisted them around, and wrought something new and vital from them. As the…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 12, 2022)
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…
All I want to do is put down little rails to help these little trains get home in this delightful…
I now live for the victorious choo choo that signals the end of a level in Railbound. Sometimes I get it in 30 seconds: on my first try I see just how to place a few pieces of track to connect two marooned train cars to the waiting…
Why has no Pokémon clone taken off like Stardew Valley?
Stardew Valley (opens in new tab) is the golden child of farming sims. It's sold more than 20 million copies since 2016 and kicking off a torrent of farm life games on PC. But there's been no Stardew Valley moment for the monster-taming…
Golfing for your life through purgatory is far more fun than you’d think
Not to brag, but the one time I played mini golf, I won. And I wasn't a kid either, that was this year. So with this boundless confidence I decided to try out Cursed to Golf, a roguelike where you play to escape from purgatory back to the…
The city builder where you build on a giant animal’s back has a release date
Zürich-based developer Stray Fawn Studio is making The Wandering Village, a city builder in which you cross a toxic wasteland on the back of a humongous creature called Onbu. As well as managing your settlement on this friendly kaiju…
This little life sim is about a teen witch who totally doesn’t want to be here
As is town life sim tradition, Witchy Life Story begins with your customized witch arriving in the tiny town of Flora to help the locals with your special abilities. Less traditionally, you actually do not want to be there escaping from…
Spark The Electric Jester 3 refines Sonic-style 3D platforming to an art
Would you believe that one of the best Sonic games in years doesn’t contain a single blue hedgehog? Recently released on Steam, Spark The Electric Jester 3—a mouthful of a title—caps off a trilogy of heavily Sonic-inspired platformers by…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 5, 2022)
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…