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Soul Survivors is a refreshing skill-based time-survival Vampire Survivor-like

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2023

Continuing my quest to have no free time ever, I have been checking out Soul Survivors that's now available in Early Access. It may be yet another Vampire Survivor-like but that's not a bad thing at all.

Look after your pixel people in life sim Tiny Life

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

A pixel-art version of The Sims? Sign me up. Tiny Life from Ellpeck Games and Top Hat Studios is now available in Early Access.

Core Keeper is getting pets and a creative mode on May 10th

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2023

The upcoming "Paws & Claws" update for Core Keeper sounds wonderful, adding in two major features with pets and a creative mode.

Valheim is getting siege weapons, fortresses and fearsome foes

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2023

The upcoming major update to Valheim with The Ashlands is sounding increasingly exciting, as the developers have another spoiler-filled development blog post up.

Takara Cards is a unique space sci-fi deckbuilding tactical strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2023

Fusing together the best elements of deckbuilders and tactical turn-based battles, Takara Cards is a little unusual to get into but full of charm to keep you wanting more.

Valheim is getting extensive difficulty options including a creative mode

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2023

Valheim continues to be one of the most popular survival games on Steam, and it seems in an upcoming update there's going to be much more extensive customization of the difficulty.

Picma - Picture Enigmas gets a free Steam release, lots of Picross styled puzzles

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2023

Love your Picross? Check out Picma - Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It's also free to play, to a point.

Stories from the Outbreak, a zombie roguelike RPG out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

Stories from the Outbreak from Coldwild Games, an indie game development company from Latvia, creators of "Merchant of the Skies", "Luna's Fishing Garden" and the "Lazy Galaxy" series hits Early Access.

Retro racer Super Indie Karts got upgraded with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

While Super Indie Karts already had Native Linux support, it's nice to see another developer making improvements for Steam Deck too.

Roguelite dungeon crawler Netherguild arrives on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2023

Now available in Early Access, if you're looking for a roguelite dungeon crawler take a look at Netherguild.

Rogue: Genesia is another horde survivor (Vampire-like?) game worth a look

By Liam Dawe, 24 Mar 2023

These Vampire Survivor-like horde survival games are still all the rage, and I keep discovering more. Rogue: Genesia is another, with Native Linux support and it is rated Steam Deck Playable.

Striving for Light: Survival blends popular horde survivor games with a big skill tree

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2023

Do you enjoy games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato and the other horde survival games? You may want to look at Striving for Light: Survival.

WorldBox - God Simulator adds in alliances, ages, clans and more

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2023

WorldBox - God Simulator is a fun way to spend a coffee break, giving you a little world to mess about with and a big new update is out now to give it a little bit more depth.

Space colony building sim Starmancer gets a huge content upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2023

After quite a while of waiting, Ominux Games have released The Wilderness update for space colony building sim Starmancer.

Valheim got a big patch with performance upgrades and controller improvements

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2023

Valheim continues to get improvements and it's easily one of my favourite survival games, it's just fantastic with a couple of friends. This new update should make it even better.

Steampunk survival game Volcanoids has been invaded by drones

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2023

I think it might be seriously time to play a whole lot more Volcanoids, with the new Ground Support update adding in special drones you can build and it looks awesome.

Action-RPG in Early Access 'Last Epoch' adds in online multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2023

A day many players have been waiting for, Last Epoch has finally added in multiplayer amongst a number of other big changes to this action RPG.

Slick tactical space RPG 'Relic Space' is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2023

Relic Space combines together smooth turn-based movement (think like Jupiter Hell) with tactical combat, RPG mechanics and 4X elements.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2023

It's fast, it gives you six degrees of freedom (6DOF) and it's open source too! Fly Dangerous just had it's second big upgrade since entering Early Access.