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On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably difficult to keep up. Potentially exciting gems are sure to get lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every game that’s released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we did. If nothing takes your fancy this week, we’ve rounded up the best PC games (opens in a new tab) you can play now and running list of 2022 games (opens in a new tab) which launch this year.
TFM: The First Men
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Release: November 3rd
Developer: Collecting Tree
Launch price: $25 | £20 | $36.50
Launched in Early Access last week, TFM: The First Men is a real-time strategy and colony simulation that takes its cues from the likes of Rimworld and Knights and Merchants. Its main difference is implied by its name: this simulation has you shaping the fate of the first humans. This means that your every decision will fundamentally shape humanity, and the quality of your people’s temperament, the type of colony they are able to live and sustain, and also their performance in battle. Complexity is always the selling point for these colony sims so that description only scratches the surface of what’s on offer with TFM, and that offering is likely to expand greatly during its projected two-year Early Access stint.
Under Oresa
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Release: 4 November
Developer: Broken Spear Inc.
Launch Price: $25 | £21 | $36.50
Sound the rogue deck builder’s klaxon, because there’s another one for the crowd. Sub Oresa definitely stands out from the crowd, though, because just look at it: it looks less like a card game, and more like the kind of cel-shaded fighter that Arc System Works would put out. Hand of Fate (opens in a new tab) however, it’s not, because while those battle animations are beautifully fluid, you’ll still control the battle through the handing out of carefully selected cards. Under Oresa is an Early Access issue, and over the next six to eight months it will receive “additional factions, characters, card sets, and some sweet features to improve gameplay.”
The Chant
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Release: 4 November
Developer: Brass Token
Launch price: $40 | £35 | AU$49.95
If you ever visit an idyllic remote island, don’t chant. That’s the lesson of The Chant, a third-person survival horror about a bunch of unfortunate people who have opened a portal into a “psychedelic dimension of terror that feeds on negative energy” thanks to their careless chanting. This one is inspired by the psychedelic horror of the 70s (I guess The Wicker Man (opens in a new tab)?) but it otherwise seems to play like a fairly conventional survival horror in the vein of Resident Evil 4. So expect resource management, tense and awkward set pieces with strange animals, and a pants-spitting atmosphere.
How to Say Goodbye
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Release: November 4th
Developer: Florian Veltman, Baptiste Portefaix, ARTE France
Launch Price: $11.69 | £9.26 | $16.65
Here’s a nice relaxing puzzle about helping ghosts move into the afterlife. Encased in a surreal grid-based limbo, it’s your job to maneuver these hidden ghosts through 15 chapters that range in theme from “your kitchen to the moon.” You’ll meet various ghosts along the way, all with their own melancholy stories to tell, and the art style takes its cues from classic children’s literature by the likes of Tove Jansson and Maurice Sendak.
Eschaton
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Release: 4 November
Developer: jabuga
Launch Price: $2.69 | £2.06 | $4.05
This week’s horror gem is Eschaton, a bleak and surreal exploration game set in the remote Scottish highlands. Yes, it’s another horror that robs the wonderful splendors of early 3D games, but some of us (me) can’t get enough of these short and experimental works. Eschaton has an interesting take on sound design, using “binaural beats as an experimental game mechanic”. As a result, you’ll really have to play with headphones to appreciate Eschaton, but then, who plays horror games without headphones? Expect terrified confusion.
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