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Trench Tales

Trench Tales immerses players in a hauntingly beautiful yet war-torn universe, where darkness reigns and mysteries lurk around every corner. You step into the shoes of the lone warrior, summoned to this desolate realm by enigmatic forces, with a mission shrouded in secrecy. Your purpose: to unravel the enigma of your summoning, confront the malevolent powers that brought you here, and ultimately, carve a path back to your world. Navigate through treacherous landscapes, uncover secrets, and battle relentless foes as you embark on an unforgettable journey of survival, discovery, and redemption.



Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall

Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall is a cinematic kingdom management game. Take on the role of a King, manage resources, support your loved ones, and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail. Dive into a Slavic-folklore inspired world and deal with a queue of petitioners who will bring trouble, help, or laughter into your throne room. Decide whether to help them with their problems, or conserve resources for more important matters.



The Midnight Walk

Embark upon The Midnight Walk in this reverent dark fantasy adventure built in clay, from the minds behind Lost in Random and Fe.

Become The Burnt One, befriend a lost lantern creature named Potboy, and use his flame to light your way through a conflicting world of wonder and suspense. Survive and outsmart the many monsters eager to devour your little friend’s flame as you experience five tales of fire and darkness, featuring an incredible cast of odd characters.



Revenge of the Savage Planet

Grab a friend and blast-off in May with exclusive limited-time Steam launch perks. Purchase Revenge of the Savage Planet within the first month of launch to receive the Trash Panda Suit and a bonus copy of Journey to the Savage Planet. This buy-one-get-one bundle is only available on Steam and for the first month of launch. Additionally, purchase the first week on Steam and you’ll also receive a 10% discount. Don’t miss out, wishlist today so you can be notified of the release and to secure your spot in space! Launch news is right around the corner.



DOOM: The Dark Ages

DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.



Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Capcom's new fighting collection hits the stage!

Choose from fan-favorite games like Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 and Project Justice to 3D action games like Power Stone and Power Stone 2 in this collection of eight classic fighting games!

Each game in the collection can be played online or co-op!

Get back in the ring and duke it out in battles that everyone rumored, but no one believed!
Whether it's with a rival new or old, give it your all and strive for victory!



RoadCraft

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

You run a disaster recovery company, specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters. Numerous tasks await you and your heavy machinery as you work to restart the local industry: clearing debris, replacing faulty equipment, rebuilding roads and bridges damaged by bad weather, deploying resource convoys to produce new reconstruction materials, and much more!



Monster Train 2

Powerful beings known as Titans have seized control of Heaven. A makeshift alliance is formed between former angels and demons, who must learn to work together against their common foe.

Now, you must command these clans aboard newly forged trains, and embark on your journey through Hell, Heaven, and the Abyss, to defeat the Titans before they destroy this world.

Chaos awaits beyond the gates!



Deliver At All Costs

Deliver At All Costs is a thrilling action game where destruction, absurdity and intrigue collide!

The year is 1959. A time of rock 'n' roll, polka dot dresses and the ever-looming dread of nuclear annihilation. Step into the shoes of Winston Green — a down-on-his-luck courier with a fiery temper and a mysterious past — as he delivers highly unconventional cargo, leaving a trail of havoc and chaos behind him, ensuring he does what it takes to Deliver At All Costs!

Plow through the city across highly destructible environments, wreaking havoc in a wide variety of vehicles. Take on bizarre deliveries and missions each with its own unique play style and mechanic. From delivering a giant flailing Marlin, to the disposal of a big bomb teetering on the edge of explosion, always expect the unexpected!



Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

The Duck Detective is back! Get ready to interview suspects, inspect evidence, and deduce the truth in another stand-alone mystery!

This campsite might have ghosts, but the real thing haunting Eugene McQuacklin is his failed marriage and bread addiction. Can he escape the shadows of his past?



Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

Reclaim your destiny.

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny returns with HD graphics and improved controls on the original game's intense swordplay and dramatic revenge story. Play as Jubei Yagyu and make your way through feudal Japan with your allies. This game has additional language support adapted from the original script.



ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design.

Join forces with other players to take on the creeping night and the dangers within featuring 3-player co-op.



Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3

Unveil the Source of the World's Despair!

Malt has vanished without a trace! The children are led by a mysterious voice into the forbidden cave, where they discover the Taranis—the powerful tank thought lost in the sea of clouds. Determined to save Malt, the children reboard the Taranis and set off on a daring mission to infiltrate the heart of the Berman Empire. However, the Crimson Knights stand in their way, strongest of the Berman!


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Damn that OP sounds SO 90s. Can't believe the original release was even 01, because it sounds squarely in 95!

It's funny my daughter was playing "Play as a Silly Seal" in Roblox, which is one of the more neat recent Roblox games and at least one of the songs sounded so retro, I couldn't believe it was no. No, they just stole some songs by small indie musicians from the 80s and 90s. Apparently these songs just make the rounds in Roblox games.
I miss old-school anime songs so much. Most animes now have normie J-POP songs to appeal to the mainstream. A huge loss if you ask me.
 
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I just finished Claire Obscure an hour or so ago and all I did since then was just sit here as a completely broken man.... just fuck man...
Let me guess... Maelle ending? Verso's ending was sad but hopeful.

Either way, I feel you. I didn't want to play anything for two weeks after watching the ending. So much emotion and I needed time to process everything.
 
My #1 concern with Nightreign is that it will stream well and be fun for those with co-op groups but suck for single players who are forced to play with randoms. And that the players will die as soon as the streamers leave
 
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I feel this is a sleeper low-budget hit of the year.


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My #1 concern with Nightreign is that it will stream well and be fun for those with co-op groups but suck for single players who are forced to play with randoms. And that the players will die as soon as the streamers leave
It has offline single player too, you're not forced to play co-op if that's your concern
 
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I had games on my cart waiting for the CC month to reset.

Bandai created a new bundle for Super Robot Wars Ultimate but they removed the discount for the base game.
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They continually do it with their other games too like some Gundam games, Tales Of Arise etc
 
Now that I have a half decent GPU I'm definitely picking up Cyberpunk during the summer sale. Can't wait to finally play it.

Next month there's the Raidou remaster, it's been so long since the PS2 version, looking forward to playing it again after all these years. Should be a great one to play on the Deck.
 
The follow up project to Clair Obscur will be very interesting. Like I already said, there are plenty of room to do better on several fronts, but I genuinely hope they don’t go crazy and bet the farm on the next one.
Like, I don’t know, allocating a nonsensical graphical budget, basing their vibes on Game of Throne, and making it a character action game.
 
How are your linux misadventures going Li Kao ?:)
They don't go. I'm a little but not really ashamed to say I don"t boot on it, except when this psycho 3 sec grub boots on it.

I fully expected to one day, not too far into the future, clash with some cryptic issue that would drive me mad and need days of browsing and pestering friends to fix.
I didn't expect my first two steam games to delete their save, having to go tinker with the PC before the kernel launch to set up a real azerty layout, having Linux and Windows handling time differently and, but that one I unfortunately expected, my Logitech mouse feeling like shit.

That's a big frontloaded gift of pain in the ass I was not ready for.

I'm not writing linux off, but HEY !


Edit - That could be just a false perception, but I also don't feel my PC working as fast as on windows. I mean for general use, not in game. For games I'm sure I lose a few fps but it's totally satisfactory from what little I saw.
 
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I didn't expect my first two steam games to delete their save, having to go tinker with the PC before the kernel launch to set up a real azerty layout, having Linux and Windows handling time differently and, but that one I unfortunately expected, my Logitech mouse feeling like shit.
the time thing is a typical issue with dual booting. If you had a linux only install, that would not happen. The mouse problem is probably due to the fact that the Logitech software sets a certain DPI level, and by default it's set to something else, hence it not feeling good. There is an app called "Solaar" that you might look into, it's pretty good at auto setting DPI and other stuff.
 
the time thing is a typical issue with dual booting. If you had a linux only install, that would not happen. The mouse problem is probably due to the fact that the Logitech software sets a certain DPI level, and by default it's set to something else, hence it not feeling good. There is an app called "Solaar" that you might look into, it's pretty good at auto setting DPI and other stuff.
True, the time thing wouldn't concern someone who only boot linux. And I mean, it's not a huge problem, but maybe a disrepancy on that front lead to my issue with steam cloud. I don't think so, I think I had already set the time correctly, but I could be wrong. But having nuked two game saves, you can understand I'm now terrified to launch any other one on linux.

For the mouse, yeah, it's shit. I can set the mouse speed anyway I think of, put the mouse on accelerated or not, but no, still shit.

And since no one replies and the forum will auto merge my posts, let me add here that linux as of now is surprisingly not the nightmare it may have been in another decade. It works. But it can be tiring how it will fight you every step of the way. Like, ask me about my experience of libre office for linux.
I mean, when you have to make a list of all the little troubleshooting you must do, it gets old fast.

Like, of the top of my head, I must fix the no azerty on boot, fix the mouse, fix libre office, decipher how you use mangohud because hey, I'm not even sure it has a GUI... it adds up.
 
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For what it's worth, my Linux experience started off mixed as Bazzite added some functionality in an update a few days after I installed, but I'd already set it up manually (and differently). This was auto-mounting drives, which is important to me as I've got loads of SSDs in my PC.

The update conflicted with my tinkering, then broke my entire install and I had to reinstall everything because Bazzite doesn't let me easily get under the hood to fix things. This was admittedly my fault, but also very frustrating at the same time.

But since then I've not felt like I needed to tinker (my drives now auto-mount by default in Bazzite) and I've found Linux to be by and large superior to Windows as a gaming experience. There are a few driver issues out of my control with the RX 9070 XT that leads to some games freezing for several seconds at a time when above 60fps, but it's been rare and getting rarer with each update so I definitely feel like it has more to do with ironing out the kinks in drivers for a new GPU. A lesson there is, don't use a brand new GPU with Linux until AMD/Nvidia better support their cards on the platform. There will be a tipping point one day where they will need to, especially AMD, and that will come very quickly if Windows continues to shit the bed.

If it gets worse I may have to switch distro to see if it persists across different distros, or in the absolute worst-case scenario go back to Windows, but the trend is in the right direction.

However, so far my Linux experience has been extremely positive and Bazzite has been very turnkey once it's actually installed. I've done less tinkering than I have to do with Windows to get a HTPC setup that just works.

I've also installed Bazzite on my ROG Ally and this has been a substantially better experience than Windows on that device. To the point that I think Asus should be helping the Bazzite team with drivers, giving them a method to update the system BIOS through Linux and actually offering it as an OS option through official channels.
 
I've been on Linux since the year began and have been in a good place with it for a while.
I've seen a lot of teething issues with Nvidia that have been gradually worked on and addressed in driver updates. It's frustrating that Nvidia makes their drivers closed-source, but at least they are working on things. In general, even if there's still some compromise, there's a sense that everything on Linux is moving forward, slowly, steadily coming together and improving. That's something I never got on Windows, where it felt like every update was just as likely to cause problems or fix them.

I started on Bazzite and honestly couldn't stand it. It's really inflexible, which really got in the way when it also had a bunch of issues like the Steam overlay not working with Gamescope, my external backup drive not mounting for some reason, and there being programs I wanted to use which couldn't be installed. I've since switched to CachyOS, which is basically just Arch, and am really at home on it. I really like doing updates and seeing each component that's updated. Windows is painfully opaque in this regard, they just refuse to include details for what changes in updates.

The startup experience is one of the nicest things on Linux IMHO. You don't have to wait for ages while programs start up and connect to the internet to check for updates. There's no apps dedicated to updating drivers or whatever that also need to check for their own updates. You boot it up and it's just ready to go, instantly. It's like magic.

KDE having its own phone sync thing that actually works is also incredible. Windows' Phone Link thing was always a crapshoot of whether it'd connect. Meanwhile, KDE lets me straight-up transfer files to and from my phone wirelessly without any fuss. It has so much utility that it's actually annoying when it does something I wouldn't expect, like letting me control media on my phone via my computers media keys. Thankfully you can toggle all the individual plugins that handle those things.