A little earlier than previous years, one of the four big seasonal Steam sales is underway. The Summer and Winter Sales tend to get the most attention and have ended up as the largest of the bunch, but the Steam Autumn Sale has been separated slightly further from the winter one this year and stands out more than usual.
If you like your thinky games big and bombastic, full of sprawling, colorful landscapes populated with fantasy armies, Endless Legend 2 may very well be the next game for you. The sequel to the mega-popular 4X strategy game just dropped into early access this week.
In an unexpected surprise announcement, the developers of the mega-popular deckbuilder Slay the Spire have shared that a very popular PC mod packed with characters and content will be brought to life on the table in an official expansion for the Slay the Spire boardgame.
The engineering sandbox delivery game Mars First Logistics is officially out of early access today. Use a plethora of parts to construct wacky machines tailored to each job, then pilot them across the red planet to their destination.
The Curse of the Last Reaper is the latest (and sadly, the last) in the series of Golden Idol Investigations DLC packs released for the mystery detective game The Rise of the Golden Idol, debuting earlier this week out of the blue.
A cute new daily word game has surfaced, and you can play an example puzzle now ahead of its official launch. Tiled Words gives you a bunch of fragmented letter-chunks that need to be re-assembled into words... which you'll do with some guidance from the provided crossword-style clues.
Beacon Patrol is a charming and challenging tile-placement boardgame, one of my favorite co-operative games from the past few years. With its new Steam release you can work together digitally to maneuver your coast guard ships and map the islands of the North Sea.
Epic has been giving away a different free game every week for at least a few years now. Last week we got the first Monument Valley, an elegant and understated game about exploring sacred, mind-bending geometry, and this week the first sequel is available to claim free of charge.
A sort of shopkeeper-detective game hybrid, Strange Horticulture found an audience of fans who liked the idea of collecting and identifying unusual plants and helping the mysterious locals with their botanical needs. Strange Antiquities, out later this week, will task you with curating and selling cursed and powerful objects instead.
Blaž Urban Gracar is the creator of fan-favorite works such as LOK and Abdec, paper puzzle books that you solve your way through. After the recent release Workworkwork, his next upcoming project is Herd, a solo-boardgame-book which he's showing off in a new preview video.
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