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Thursday, Sep 26, 2024

Shadows of Doubt Released

Early Access is complete for Shadows of Doubt, which is now officially available for Windows on GOG.com* and Steam as well as for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Here's the official Launch Trailer showing off the boxy voxel graphics in this detective simulation from Fireshine and ColePowered. This post has a detailed discussion of the game's Early Access run and the release edition. Here's an overview:
Shadows of Doubt is set in an alternate reality in the hyper-industrialized 1980s. Think like a detective and use a variety of gadgets as a private intelligence investigator, gathering evidence and making money by solving cases, finding and selling information and more.

Play your own way in a fully simulated world with hundreds of citizens. Discover, meet and tail individual citizens, each with their own name, job, apartment and daily routine, in unique, procedurally-generated cities. Each case has different culprits, clues and experiences for you to test your investigative skills.
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Iron Meat Released

Iron Meat is now available on the Epic Games Store, GOG.com,* and Steam, offering a run-and-gun platformer/shooter. This has some serious Contra vibes, which you can see in the Official Launch Trailer. If you want a test-run, there's a playable demo on GOG.com and Steam. Here's more on the chance to take on the menace of The Meat with the power of your pew pew:
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
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Bionic Bay Demo

Here's a Gameplay First Look Trailer from Bionic Bay, revealing a PC edition of this just announced puzzle/platformer. Besides PlayStation 5 it's coming to Steam, where there's a playable Windows demo right now. Here's word on the beautiful hand-painted environments the trailer reveals: "Bionic Bay's art is crafted with remarkable precision, as highlighted in the trailer, which showcases a tree made up of over 250,000 pixels and an awe-inspiring mechanical hand featuring more than 1 million pixels. The result is a breathtaking retro-futuristic biomechanical world unlike anything seen before in gaming." It also shows off a "swap" mechanic that is essential to the game. Here's word:
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
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Techtonica in November

Fire Hose Games announces November 7th is the official launch date for Techtonica, its factory building game for PC and consoles. The game entered Early Access in July 2023, which will make this a pretty brief journey to version 1.0 compared to other prominent games in this genre. This post on Steam discusses what to expect from the full version, offering a colorful 1.0 Announce Trailer to illustrate the news. Here's the blueprint:
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
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Kaya's Prophecy Announced

Yogscast Games and Jérémie & Thibaut announce Kaya's Prophecy, a village-building game coming to PC via Steam next year. This will include deckbuilding roguelite components, and carries the promise of a "unique twist" from this now familiar element: "Unlike your average builder, resources come in the shape of unique cards that shape their one of a kind villages and forge their destiny – for good and bad." The Coming Soon Trailer takes a look. Here's word:
Kaya's Prophecy is a tribal, card-based village builder that challenges your strategic skills and resource management. As the leader of your tribe, you'll build a thriving community while navigating the whims of your god. Manage your resources wisely, collect cards that synergize to build the perfect deck, forge your village’s destiny, and above all – keep your god happy, you don’t want to be on his bad side!
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Miscellaneous Releases

  • Save 20% on The Holy Gosh Darn on Steam (Windows). "The Holy Gosh Darn is a narrative adventure with a time-travelling twist. Time travel to jump between the past and present across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim. Uncover information in one timeline to alter things in another in a bid to stop your heaven from going bang. Again."

Demos & Freebies

  • Entropy Survivors on Steam (Windows). "Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op!"
  • Warside on Steam (Windows). "Welcome to Warside, the fast-paced turn-based tactics game. With a single-player story campaign, multiplayer support, and a built-in map editor, the fight for victory never ends. Choose your Commander, assemble your forces, and battle your way to victory."

Get The Spirit and the Mouse for Free

Grab your Epic Games Store password and put away your wallet, as it's time for the store's weekly giveaway. The new freebie is The Spirit and the Mouse, a Windows platformer from Armor Games Studios and Alblune that was first released two years ago today. Next week's gift will be Bear and Breakfast, and this week's is for keeps if you snag it before that arrives. Here's word:
After a shocking thunderstorm brings them together, unlikely allies Lila the mouse and Lumion the Spirit guardian must work in tandem to restore balance to their quaint village. Thankfully, Lila has her big heart and electrifying new powers to aid her on this journey. Guide her through a heartwarming adventure across Sainte-et-Claire to befriend playful electric spirits called Kibblins and illuminate this village once more.

Atari 50: The Wider World of Atari Released

The Wider World of Atari is now available for PC and consoles, with additional 19 retro games for Atari 50, the recently launched giant collection of Atari titles from the early days of console gaming. The Windows edition is on Steam, where there's this post with a full list of the games this adds. For more Atari points to a video from MetalJesusRocks that's called a "review," which is a little uncomfortable since it's sponsored. Here's word:
The Wider World of Atari includes new interviews, vintage ads, historical artifacts, and more, which have all been researched and presented with Digital Eclipse’s signature style. Highlights from the new timeline include unusual and underappreciated innovations and hidden gems from the late 1980s; a spotlight on the artist Evelyn Seto, who helped create the iconic “Fuji” Atari logo; Pong creator Al Alcorn explaining the birth of Breakout; and an exploration of the fan base’s role in discovering unreleased prototypes, creating “homebrew” games, and preserving Atari history.
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Mechabellum Leaves Early Access

Early Access has concluded for Mechabellum, and this sci-fi tactical combat game from Game River and Paradox Arc is now officially available for Windows on Steam. There's a detailed discussion of version 1.0 and rewards for Early Access players in this post, where there's also a Launch Trailer with a look. Here's the deal:
Mechabellum is a rewarding tactical wargame where thinking ahead and adapting your strategy will gain you victory. Command your mechanized army in battle against human or AI opponents. Customize your units and abilities, strategically place them on the battlefield and watch them destroy your enemies.

From the nimble Wasp light aircraft to the massive, flame-wielding Vulcan, learn the strengths and weaknesses of a large number of unique units. Customize them and their abilities before and during battles to maximize their destructive power.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: World Brothers 2 Released

Declaring the "Earth has shattered into pieces…again," D3Publisher announces the launch of EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS 2, a second installment in this voxel-powered spinoff of the EARTH DEFENSE FORCE series. This is available for PC, PlayStation 4/5, and Switch, and the Windows edition is on the Epic Games Store and Steam with a 10% launch discount. Differences from the mainline series are shown off in the Launch Trailer which shows that this branch is equally madcap. Here's more:
EDF: WB2 tells the story of what happened to the voxel (cube) Earth after the events of the first installment. Brothers from across the world reunite to face an unprecedented threat brought about by an all-new assassin that threatens to tear the Earth apart all over again. To restore peace to the voxel Earth, the EDF has been dispatched for an emergency mission the likes of which no one has ever seen before! Featuring a unique voxel art style, epic 4-player team battles, and filled with more love for the EDF series than ever before, players must stand together to save the world once more. EDF move out!
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The Nameless: Slay Dragon Released

The Nameless: Slay Dragon is now available for Windows on Steam, offering what The Nameless Epic and WhisperGames call "a gamebook-adventure flavored turn-based RPG." If that doesn't paint a complete picture, there's a look at gameplay in the Theme Song Trailer accompanying the launch, and there's a playable demo to experience for yourself. Here's word on the game, which is 10% off for the next two weeks:
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is a gamebook-adventure flavored turn-based RPG In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
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Demos & Freebies

  • Axe Ghost on Steam (Windows). "A tiny, turn-based, score attack challenge. Survive a monster onslaught and vanquish their formidable boss."
  • Recycling Center Simulator on Steam (Windows). "Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory."

Out of the Blue

MrsBlue has a new job, and today is her last day at her old one. Things move fast these days. and her position was switched around quite a bit over the years. She'd grown increasingly unhappy with where she landed, leading to the hunt for a new company. She would be the first to admit this started to affect her outside of the workplace, and there were a couple of moments along the way when we experienced the converse of the old saw about "happy wife, happy life." So while she is pleased with the change, I am positively overjoyed. I'm probably more excited about this than she is.

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