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Become a powerful Rogue in the latest update to the action-RPG Last Epoch

By Liam Dawe, 7 Dec 2020

This might actually be my favourite class so far in Last Epoch, the impressive time-travelling action RPG.

Deck-building fast-paced battler One Step From Eden gets a huge free expansion update

By Liam Dawe, 7 Dec 2020

Mixing in elements inspired by Mega Man Battle Network along with the popularity of deck-building, One Step From Eden is quite a highlight from earlier 2020 and now it's bigger and better.

Dead Cells has sold over 3.5 million copies, Fatal Falls DLC announced for early 2021

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2020

Evil Empire and Motion Twin have announced that Dead Cells is getting a brand new DLC in early 2021 and it seems they have a lot more coming to Dead Cells.

War Thunder now has a Battle Pass with both free and paid items

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2020

War Thunder, the very popular free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military now has its own Battle Pass system so dedicated players can earn even more from it.

The charming action-RPG Skellboy Refractured will release on January 13, 2021

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2020

Skellboy Refractured from UmaikiGames is one you need to keep on your radar for early next year, as they've announced it's going to release on January 13.

Inspired by the likes of Cube World, open source RPG Veloren has the biggest update yet

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2020

Currently in development and not yet considered a full game but still very impressive anyway, Veloren is a free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG.

Gravity in Space might be the most unique (and weirdest) space shooter I've ever seen

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2020

Currently in development with a release planned to happen in 2021, Gravity in Space is a fully 3D space shooter with six degrees of freedom.

The modern retro adventure Alwa's Legacy is now available on itch.io

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

Do you prefer to buy your games from the indie store itch.io? Good news, another quality game arrived with the platformer adventure Alwa's Legacy.

Fraymakers aims to be the ultimate customizable Smash-like platform fighting game

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Fraymakers is a brand new platform fighter coming from McLeodGaming, the creators of Super Smash Flash 2 which is the most popular Smash Bros. fan-game on PC.

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens goes Early Access in December and it's wild

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens is probably one of the biggest surprises that I tried out during a previous Steam Game Festival and it's going live soon.

Take on the high seas in the new limited time Sail Forth demo

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2020

Sail Forth is a very colourful high seas adventure that sees you travel through a procedurally crafted adventure over an unending ocean.

Streets of Rage 4 is now officially available for Linux, along with Vulkan support in FNA

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2020

Lizardcube and Dotemu announced today that Streets of Rage 4 is now officially supported on Linux (and macOS), with a port done by Ethan Lee creator of FNA.

Physics-based cyberpunk platformer LAZR is looking really good in the latest footage

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2020

After an impressive early demo (which you can still try out) and a successful Kickstarter campaign, LAZR is looking really fun and I can't wait to see more of it.

Steal the sun in Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash is the second season to the visual novel/mech brawler and it's out now.

Gravity Ace is an excellent take on classic twin-stick cave-flying and it feels awesome

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2020

Cave-flying is a genre that was big a very long time ago, now though not so much but Gravity Ace from John Watson entered Early Access recently and it's absolutely brilliant.

Check out the fresh demo of Bound By Blades and take down some fierce monsters

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2020

Bound By Blades might look welcoming with the sweet colourful style and wonderful music, but this action-RPG gets quickly intense.

Try not to lose your head in a world full of colour in GONNER2 out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2020

Art in Heart and Raw Fury have released GONNER2, an intense procedurally generated action-platformer with a very bizarre and colourful world.

First-person magic-shooting rogue-lite 'Ziggurat 2' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2020

Ziggurat 2 from Milkstone Studios has arrived in Early Access, letting you jump into the shoes of a mage and blast through some freaky creatures with all sorts of wands and staffs in gorgeous first-person action.

The big tech upgrade for They Bleed Pixels is now out everywhere

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2020

They Bleed Pixels, a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror recently released on the Nintendo Switch which gave the PC version a nice tech upgrade too.