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I look forward to Steam Next Fest segments whenever they appear throughout the year. While my Steam Deck is not my favorite console/handheld, I will give props to Steam itself for hosting so many games with demos available. It gives us all a chance to check out games coming out soon and things far in the future. I played well over
Read MoreWar has always been a rough foundation for stories about suffering, ambition, and the collapse of humanity, but in Valor Mortis, it is something more. The game takes those ideas, twists their meaning, and makes them much darker. Valor Mortis is set in an alternate Napoleonic era of France in a nineteenth-century world where soldiers, the military, and the empire are
Read MoreAncient ruins, abandoned settlements, forgotten civilizations, and landscapes swallowed by supernatural corruption all suggest an adventure game set in a world with its own history. The challenge, however, is turning that atmosphere into something more unique and meaningful than another open-world filled with side quests and repetitive waves of enemies. With Enshrouded, we find that quickly by playing a game that
Read MoreAlpha Nomos is a rogue-lite that combines third-person hack-and-slash combat with rhythm mechanics and progression known from the genre. We play as Cello, a young warrior traveling through a ruined world overrun by murderous puppets. She uses musical instruments as weapons and the soundtrack as a guide to her combat. Attacks, dodges, and abilities are connected to the beat of the
Read MoreCastlevania is one of those legendary Konami series that, for almost four decades, has built its fanbase and theme around gothic castles, supernatural horrors, rough combat, and the legacy of the Belmont family. It started as a tough, unforgiving platform game, but slowly, over time, it demonstrated that there are many ways to make hunting monsters an unforgettable, stressful adventure. Released
Read MoreThe original Star Wars: Episode I Racer game remains one of the most memorable examples of games in the franchise because it stepped away from being focused only on lightsaber battles or blaster stand-offs. But since then, racing has remained a side attraction or even a forgotten part of games in that universe. Released by Fuse Games and Secret Mode on
Read MoreSilver Pines is a game that combines survival horror, detective fiction, psychological mystery, and some Metroidvania exploration into a 2.5D adventure that is inspired by Twin Peaks, Silent Hill, Alan Wake, Widow’s Bay, The X-Files, and Resident Evil. What makes Silver Pines immediately interesting and different from other games of the genre is that it builds everything around atmosphere, creepy visuals,
Read MoreThanks to Gears of War: E-Day, The Coalition and People Can Fly studios finally return to the moment all players were waiting for. The story of how it all started and how, fourteen years before the original Gears of War game was set, a catastrophe occurred that shaped Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago into the soldiers we know. In Gears of
Read MoreThe concept of Vaewolf sounds ridiculous at first. A young elf survives the massacre of his people, becomes infected by a werewolf curse, is rescued by a vampire, and ultimately turns into a creature capable of switching between all three forms. Yet beneath that deliberately exaggerated idea is a surprisingly focused action roguelite. It is set in an alternate version of
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