When it comes to survival games, most of them require you to make a sizable investment of time and effort into mastering their mechanics and staying alive. They will also feature a dark, gritty art style and more often than not keep you in first person, experiencing the horrors they visit upon you first hand. Stranded Sails is the opposite: A game with a relaxed, casual survival gameplay, married to a colorful art style, and an actual endgame.
Don your gas masks and fire up the old Geiger counter as Chernobylite releases today in early access on PC. Developed by Polish studio The Farm 51, creators of the acclaimed Get Even, Chernobylite is their newest entry into the survival horror genre set this time in the eerie Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Fight to survive and discover a story steeped in tragedy, pain, and a mystery obscured by time.
PC RPGs have lived in a space that have allow them to grow in a wide range of nuanced and variant direction since the old Ultima days. There's a CRPG for just about everyone out there, if you're willing to look. It's hard to make one in 2019 that looks and feels so wholly original that it can't be considered am "[insert old video game here]-like", but it seems ZA/UM has both stepped up to that challenge, and has possibly knocked it out of the park with Disco Elysium.
The only extraterrestrial body visited by humans personally continues to excite the imagination and for good reason: Not only is it the closest celestial body to our home, it also promises to be a rich source of Helium-3, a potential fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. Deliver Us the Moon, now available on Steam again in a complete, overhauled version, is set in a future where humanity colonized the Moon, exploited its helium bounty… Then everything went terribly, terribly wrong.
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince launches today on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Linux! Developed by Frozenbyte and published by Modus Games, Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is the next installment of the beloved puzzle-platformer Trine series where players must utilize three different characters to solve puzzles and progress through beautifully crafted 2.5D side-scrolling levels. The game can be played with up to 4 players through online or local co-op, and solo players can swap between the different characters at will.
Expanding on the successful open world formula adopted by Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ubisoft leaves behind real world counterparts in Ghost Recon Breakpoint for the fictional setting of Auroa. In this addition to the series, the iconic Ghosts return for a new mission that will put their survival skills to the test. The game launches today on several platforms with seasonal updates planned for the future.
Close Combat: The Bloody First launches today! Developed and published by Slitherine, it heralds as a real-time-strategy war game that places a heavy emphasis on tactics and historical accuracy. The Bloody First is the latest release in a long series of games dating back to its first appearance in 1996, but this is the first entry to utilize a 3D engine.
In its third year, you'd expect any game to ease off of the gas pedal and start slowing down post-launch production. No one told Bungie this, who is about to round the corner of year three of their signature space shooter, Destiny 2, by celebrating the release of a brand new expansion, Shadowkeep.
Freedom Finger launches today on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch! Developed and published by Wide Right Interactive, Freedom Finger is a music-driven side-scrolling shoot-em-up bullet-hell game that pairs a particular kind of humor and unique art-style with engaging and challenging gameplay.
Cosmic Horror is a popular sub-genre to set games in these days. And why not? Is there a more classically Very Bad Thing than the things that go bump in the dark night of deep space (and possibly other dimensions)? Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, a new horror RPG from Cultic Games, answers that with a resounding "no."