On a median day a couple of dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we expect that is a very good factor, it may be understandably laborious to maintain up with. Probably thrilling gems are certain to be misplaced within the deluge of recent issues to play except you kind by means of each single sport that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve carried out. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered the finest PC video games you possibly can play proper now and a operating record of the 2024 video games which might be launching this yr.
Burn
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Launch: August 9
Developer: Convict Video games
This visible novel traces the adventures and misadventures of Nina Burn, a globally well-liked Finnish pop star with three albums below her belt. The place subsequent for Burn? Will she fade into irrelevance, reassert her dominance, or “turn out to be a monster”? There are sixteen endings right here, and so loads of solutions to that query. Based mostly on her emblem, possibly there is a pop / black metallic hybrid in Burn’s waters? This sport is made by the crew chargeable for Stone, which is an “Aussie stoner noir story” sport that includes a koala. There is a demo for Burn, in case you are not 100% certain you wish to deliberate over the profession strikes of a mid-career pop star (which appears bizarre to me).
Vladik Brutal
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Launch: August 10
Developer: Narko Video games
This solo developed first-person shooter stands out as a result of it appears closely impressed by Half-Life relatively than the standard close-to-zero narrative boomer shooters. Set in an Japanese European dictatorship, its artwork model is certainly harking back to Valve’s basic, although Vladik Brutal leans in additional on Soviet-era structure and sooty city environments. Most significantly, the motion and fight appears impeccably clean right here, with manufacturing high quality that might rival greater indie studios. It is positively price a glance when you’re a kind of individuals decrying the demise of cinematic singleplayer FPS video games.
Cat Quest III
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Launch: August 8
Builders: The Gentlebros
I performed Cat Quest 2 with my seven-year-old son and it went down a deal with. These video games aren’t tremendous advanced takes on the motion RPG, so that they’re nice to play with individuals inexperienced or in any other case detached to the style. So far as I can inform, Cat Quest 3 is extra Cat Quest, besides now there are boats, pirates, and a few deviations into 2D sidelong navigation. Should you crank the issue up you are in for a difficult time, after all, however Cat Quest is mainly a comfortable sport with, uh, tons and many blood-free killing.
Volgarr the Viking II
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Launch: August 7
Developer: Loopy Viking Studios, Digital Eclipse
I hated the primary Volgarr the Viking, within the sense that I cherished it but it surely kicked my arse so laborious I felt a lot, a lot older after ending it. So I am decided to not contact this sequel to the powerful as nails 2D platformer. I have to be cautious of my coronary heart fee. It appears to be a sequel in the most typical sense: it is just like the primary sport simply with extra stuff. Extra power-ups, extra magic, extra baddies. I hope you’ve enormous reserves of endurance. I really feel indignant simply eager about it.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit
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Launch: August 8
Developer: Mega Cat Studios
I doubt many FNAF fanatics “missed” this sport, but it surely’s among the many few on this universe that I have been tempted to strive for myself, so I am together with it for everybody else. It is a 2D pixel artwork tackle the horror collection with puzzles and tense pursuits. It is developed by the studio chargeable for WrestleQuest, and its pixel artwork is equally vibrant and chunky.
