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[Cthulhu]

Serious Sam is great.  My hot take is that the modern Doom is more of a spiritual successor to Serious Sam than Doom.

Also, Ruinarch early access is out.  Might deserve its own thread, considering we were one of the main hubs for That Which Sleeps, which Ruinarch has some thematic similarities to.  It's not really similar gameplay-wise, the joke (which is very accurate) is that it's basically Rimworld where you play as Randy Random.  You place your portal in a small, randomly generated map with a town, some of the later ones have multiple connected maps and multiple towns, the most people I've seen on a map was 25 in one huge town.

You've got spells, demons, various stuff, and your goal is to kill everybody.  There's very little structure at the moment, you have lots of options for killing people and as it stands the game is basically just a sandbox where you make your own fun.  You can easily just blow everybody up and kill them that way, but that's not really very fun.  NPCs have character classes and various traits, and you can manipulate people's traits to give them bad ones, ranging from stuff like being easily angered to vampirism, zombie virus, serial killers, etc.  If you play your cards right you can get everybody killing each other over real and imagined crimes (there's a building called the Eye that gives you an event log and lets you store and reveal lines from it to people, e.g. you get a married villager to cheat on his wife and then tell the wife about it).

In practice not much about it works yet.  The monsters you have are mostly useless, even your demons will lose 1v1 to a villager.  You can brainwash cultists but it doesn't accomplish much.  Spells can wipe the village out easy, but that's not fun.  Have never seen zombies or plague work well, since the monsters are so weak the zombies just die and maybe infect one person, leading to more of a slow chain of infections rather than exponential takeoff apocalypse.  Right now I'd say it's not a buy.

[Yoink]

Funny, I just got done playing my first two hours of it.   
Probably agree with the "not a buy" part, but I had a bit of fun. It doesn't really accomplish much, but finding new and unusual ways to torment villagers is pretty satisfying. Oh, and amusingly enough, the 'reversed Rimworld' comparison was one of the first things that occurred to me, haha. You can be in control of people's extreme mental breaks.   

[Jopax]

So Control is out on Steam, was debating getting on the EGS for a while now, but the shittiness of the platform kinda put me off for the most part. In comes the Steam release with all the DLC and a discount. Paying 40ish € for a AAA game with two DLC's seems like a damn steal tbh.

Well worth the price tho if you're into third person shooters set in a pretty great mix of X-Files and SCP.

[Mephansteras]

Picked up a game that's still in early access on Steam called Gordian Quest. It's...kind of like a cross between Darkest Dungeon, Slay the Spire, and Diablo. You have a party of 3 adventurers, each having their own deck (like StS), as well as a whole host of item slots that you can equip them with. Varying bonuses and item rarity, a la Diablo.

Combat is a pretty decent grid set up, with abilities often triggering off of rows or lanes as well as individual spots. The flow is good and there is a ton of interaction between various cards and characters, plus lots of summons and stuff depending on what characters you use.

I am trying it first on Normal and it's...stupidly easy. So I will definitely do a harder run next time. But it's been good for learning the mechanics, and it looks like you open more options with the characters after you finish an Act with them.

Length seems good. Still in Act 1 after 5 hours, and looks like there will be quite a few acts eventually. Only 2 implemented so far (Early Access and all), but I've probably already gotten my money's worth on the game.

Overall, I'd say it's worth playing even as in (at least for $15 on sale) and should definitely be worth it for the final game.

[Cthulhu]

So Control is out on Steam, was debating getting on the EGS for a while now, but the shittiness of the platform kinda put me off for the most part. In comes the Steam release with all the DLC and a discount. Paying 40ish € for a AAA game with two DLC's seems like a damn steal tbh.

Well worth the price tho if you're into third person shooters set in a pretty great mix of X-Files and SCP.

The lore, aesthetics, etc. of control are fantastic, the gameplay is boring as hell and feels like something from the PS2 era. 

[MCreeper]

Yandere Simulator demo is finished. That's great, i guess.
EDIT: There are still two empty rooms, kill animation still can clip trough walls and i still don't know what to do besides randomly killing people, nevermind how to fire up tutorial. Meh. 

[Jopax]

So Control is out on Steam, was debating getting on the EGS for a while now, but the shittiness of the platform kinda put me off for the most part. In comes the Steam release with all the DLC and a discount. Paying 40ish € for a AAA game with two DLC's seems like a damn steal tbh.

Well worth the price tho if you're into third person shooters set in a pretty great mix of X-Files and SCP.

The lore, aesthetics, etc. of control are fantastic, the gameplay is boring as hell and feels like something from the PS2 era.

Having played trough most of it now, yeah I gotta agree somewhat. It's mainly the gunplay I think, none of them feel good or effective to use, the only powerful ones are the rocket and sniper variants, but those are super clunky to use. Luckily the combat is somewhat salvaged by the sheer glee of tossing shit around and smacking people with chunks of rock, bits of office or other people. I'd also love it if they leaned a bit more on some of the weirder puzzle stuff that some of the objects have, figuring that shit out was pretty fun most of the time.

[Il Palazzo]

(So this game does have its own thread, but it's 6 year old and probably not worth resurrecting)
I've been having fun with a neat little roguelike (a proper one, none of that lite shit) called Approaching Infinity. It's a bit like Prospector, in so far as you're flying a spaceship and landing on planets. It's perhaps less polished, but the development seems to have picked up pace since the game went on steam.
There's officers with classes and experience, artefacts, ship boarding and spelunking. Permadeath is toggleable; but when on the game does scratch that roguelike itch.

[Cthulhu]

So Control is out on Steam, was debating getting on the EGS for a while now, but the shittiness of the platform kinda put me off for the most part. In comes the Steam release with all the DLC and a discount. Paying 40ish € for a AAA game with two DLC's seems like a damn steal tbh.

Well worth the price tho if you're into third person shooters set in a pretty great mix of X-Files and SCP.

The lore, aesthetics, etc. of control are fantastic, the gameplay is boring as hell and feels like something from the PS2 era.

Having played trough most of it now, yeah I gotta agree somewhat. It's mainly the gunplay I think, none of them feel good or effective to use, the only powerful ones are the rocket and sniper variants, but those are super clunky to use. Luckily the combat is somewhat salvaged by the sheer glee of tossing shit around and smacking people with chunks of rock, bits of office or other people. I'd also love it if they leaned a bit more on some of the weirder puzzle stuff that some of the objects have, figuring that shit out was pretty fun most of the time.

It's one of the most frustrating games I've seen lately, because everything but the gameplay really is great.  It reminds me a lot of the secret world, which was an MMO.  It has a similar writing style, the Hiss reminds me a lot of the Filth, malevolent information leakage from some other reality.  I also really love the hiss ambience, it reminds me of hypnagogic hallucination, when you're super tired in bed and you can hear people endlessly talking, just outside the boundary of conscious thought. 

[Mephisto]

I've been chasing my white whale and bought into another open world crafty fighty thing that came out a couple of days ago, Craftopia. It's probably going to end up alright but it's not quite there yet.

It's extremely early access and Engrish abounds. Performance is also poo and I've had to drop my resolution to sub-720p to get a vaguely playable experience, though I'll say both of those are partly due to the device I'm using. I should put some work into getting my "gaming" rig functional again.

In any case, it looks great but has few configuration options to tone it down. I couldn't force myself to play mere minutes past talking to all of the tutorial people who lined up for you on your island.

Story's weird, though. If you're into the absurd, take a look. The game opens to a white screen that has a red button on it. You push the button, bombs go off, the world gets destroyed. Some pointy-eared angel thing tells you that you destroyed the world but the god of everything is going to allow you to be one of the first to set foot on Craftopia, which you get to build up from scratch.

[Aoi]

As Far As The Eye is... weird, but in a good way. Imagine playing Civilization, if the entire thing was a puzzle game of staring at the city worker screen. No, really.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The bulk of the gameplay takes place on a turn-based hex grid where you have to decide what resources to harvest with your limited array of Worker Dudes, and there's at least a dozen different things to collect/craft. Your objective is basically to collect what resources you need, fill in what limited space you have on your giant beast of burden, and scoot off to the next area on your FTL-esque map before the timer ticks down and your little team of refugees gets swept away.

Your little Worker guys are persistent and gain experience as they do particular jobs, but there are also different requirements to advance to the next map. For example, my current map has three potential places to go next, and they require (Ore/Herbs), (Fish/Wool), (Food/Wood). If you've already got a T3 Herbalist and can benefit from its perks, it might be worth going for that, despite how Wood is a plentiful basic harvest and you probably (hopefully!) have food on hand already. Adding to the complexity is that some resources require buildings before they can be harvested which can be constructed directly on the map, or be built as as a much more expensive mobile building that can be taken from map to map.

And then you can move on: You got some extra resources, time's ticking down, and it's time to scoot, right? Now it's Inventory Tetris, as you realize that those 700 extra wood you chopped to get a jumpstart on the next region... doesn't fit. Do you throw out the stone which doesn't stack as well? Or the alcohol, which isn't used too much but takes a lot more turns to craft?

It's still rough around the edges (official launch is tomorrow) and could use more informational stuff ("Is stone 1x4 or 4x1 again?"), but it's definitely something intriguing and worth a gander. I'm still trying to work the system well enough to successfully pass the third map.

[ChairmanPoo]

Iīm tempted to dig out Rol Crusaders out of some abandonware site and give it a try. I remember playing it a long, long time ago... never got very far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJsi3i1N3M

[dragdeler]

There finally are good skating simulations for the pc, I think skater xl is overpriced and very barebones I refunded it. But I'm loving session, manual catch, manual release the whole hardcore shabang feels so rewarding. The game is half the price and far from considered finished. Now it's true it has some glitches, but if you like skating, have a look at it at the next steam sales before it gets a proper release, I bet you could make an absolute steal.

Spoiler: map not included in original game (click to show/hide)

Next I want a decent UFC game for PC then I'm all set on sport games for years.

[Zangi]

So apparently that Songs of Syx game is out on early access for steam.
Also they have an itchio thing if you prefer buying elsewhere.  Plus you can get the demo there.

[n9103]

The demo is also on steam. It's on the right above the languages box.