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Old News Is Still News: A Round-Up Of ‘Stuff’
We're all entitled to a little R&R - especially if it's playing games. Here's a round-up of news during a hiatus as old news is still news.
Old news is still news, and after a brief break, here’s a round-up of upcoming titles as producing separate posts for each one on a Sunday afternoon isn’t on today’s boozy agenda.
- Terra Memoria Review: Where Change Is A Constance
- The Silly Knight Prologue Is Free On Itch.io
- Have You Played The Supermoves Demo? You Can Next Month
- Doug’s Nightmare Is Absolute Bananas
First up is Festival Tycoon. The season is slowly coming to an end, so if you missed anything big this year, want to relive the vibe and not catch COVID-19, Future Friends’ simulator by Johannes Gäbler is for you.
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A fruity blend of tycoon builder, management and RTS (not that K-Pop group), you’ll build a massive festival of your own design in this voxel sim, coming to Early Access in Q3 2021.
Are you a fan of Pikmin? Looking to meet new people? Need to increase the size of your schlong? Dap can help you with one of those, and depending on your stance, that Pikmin reference might be a good ‘un.
Like a twisted Pied Piper, you’ll round up a group of creatures known as Daps, ensuring their safety in this ‘eerily beautiful world’. A puzzle game at heart, this is another Steam game coming in Q3 2021 and something to put on your wishlist.
Despot’s Game is due for a release in Autumn/Fall this year. From Konfa Games and tinyBuild, it’s a follow-up Despotism 3K, only with a different build as it’s a ‘rogue-like auto chess battler’. How many more games will fit that title?
You can read up on the recent PS4 release of Despotism 3K here. Just sayin’.
Tools Up! continues with the DLC as The Final Fall comes out next month. Playing the base game and the second of the DLC instalments almost swayed me away from these couch co-ops as it was incredibly stressful.
Not wanting to yield, I stuck with it and ended up clearing up most of the trophies, yet I still HATE that bastard racoon. This third DLC will add to the mayhem and introduce unwanted weather effects such as passing showers and rolling fog.
Site favourite Team17 have a busy schedule with some corkers on the horizon. Hell Let Loose has recently been announced for PS5, so if you’re a fan of online FPS games with depth, give this a look. It’s not my type of game, but I can easily recommend it to those with even the slightest interest.
The Unliving is an Early Access title coming to Steam in October. A necromancer experience where you raise the dead to fight your way through the IKEA queues to get yourself a standing desk – oh wait, that was my experience.
This procedurally generated dark fantasy RPG title launches on the 26th of October.
Another game from the publisher will be coming in 2022 – Trepang2 from Trepang Studios. Trepang anyone? A ‘frenetic and brutal campaign filled with rapid gunfights and close-quarters melee combat’ sounds wicked.
With a supernatural vibe, you’ll play an enhanced soldier as they head into a heavily guarded environment looking for revenge in this solo FPS experience.
On the 7th of December, plague-ridden Thymesia launches on the PC – an RPG debut from OverBorder Studio. ‘Set in a once thriving kingdom now fallen to chaos, only the mysterious plague-masked Corvus – a half human, half raven hybrid – can unlock scattered memories and unravel the mysteries that lurk among the plague infected shadows’.
…and one more for fans of Blasphemous: a sequel is set for a 2023 release from The Game Kitchen!
Here’s a showreel of what’s to come from Team17:
