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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.
signaled
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Release: October 28th
Developer: roz-engine
Launch price: $20 | £16 | AU$29.95
Signalis is an attractively weird take on sci-fi survival horror, mixing diorama visual art graphics with an excess of psychological dread. Protagonist Elster is a “Replica” lost on a mysterious, icy planet, but based on early gameplay footage the game mostly takes place on an abandoned spaceship. Elster navigates these terrifying surroundings in search of his “lost partner and lost dreams,” and as you’d expect, there are plenty of puzzles to solve and enemies to fight along the way. At a time when modern horror games seem to lean more than ever towards gore, Signalis opts instead for an oppressive atmosphere of melancholy, taking its cues from the likes of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch rather than 1980s VHS video badass.
Saturn Quest: RUNE 3000
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Release: October 29
Developer: Arkhouse Telegraph
Launch Price: $5.09 | £4.07 | $7.22
Here’s a fascinating mix of adventure and real-time strategy, with surreal pixel art to die for. Set on a mysterious space station where “illegal experiments” are conducted on the player, this outing mixes the apparent simplicity of a “Zelda-style boss arena” with an accessible take on RTS strategy gameplay. As the trailer above demonstrates, it’s quite a diverse affair: expect classic 16-bit head-on exploration, the aforementioned RTS elements, as well as a side-scrolling flick. This is actually the third Saturn Quest game: the one-person studio recommends playing the first (opens in a new tab) two (opens in a new tab) games before tackling this one. But do what you will. No one is forcing you.
Charon’s Staircase
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Release: October 28th
Developer: Indigo Studios
Launch Price: $22.49 | £18.89 | $34.19
Charon’s Staircase is a first-person horror game with a very appealing premise: you are a secret agent tasked with destroying evidence of your regime’s oppressive past, the better to win membership to the European Union. Chief among the evidence in need of destruction are some confidential documents kept at the Oak Grove estate. Naturally, that’s where you’re headed, and naturally, it’s very scary. What follows is the usual mix of exploration, puzzle solving and ghoul evasion, but you’ll also discover that the mode you’re working towards is a whole was much more effective than originally thought.
Paper Cut Mansion
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Release: October 28th
Developer: Space Lizard Studio
Launch Price: $18 | £15.29 | $26.05
Yet another horror game (because Halloween), this entry brings Paper Mario-style art direction to the roguelite genre. As you’d expect, Paper Cut Mansion looks more like a horror game than a whimsical Nintendo RPG, with a more mature and painterly take on the paper cut-out aesthetic. It’s a top-down survival horror with procedurally generated environments and some other roguelike trappings, namely, permanent unlocks that help increase your chances of beating the game. The appeal of an endlessly replayable survival horror game—complete with puzzles, quests, and villains—is obvious, but it’s the art style that elevates Paper Cut Mansion.
Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum
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Release: October 26th
Developer: Retrotainment Games, Digital Eclipse
Launch Price: $9 | £7.65 | AU$13.05
Not many people are aware, but The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (opens in a new tab) is the best cinema to come out of the 1980s. That alone makes this 8-bit platformer worth exploring: sure, it’s just another retro-style platformer at heart, but it’s impressively orthodox, inheriting even the uglier aspects of you old NES games like Wonder Boy. You can play as four of the Garbage Pail Kids, each with their own abilities, and there are six “exciting” levels to explore, all filled with pesky enemies and traps. The Steam page warns that the game “contains pixelated and childlike depictions of flatulence, buttocks, vomit, mucus and more,” so be well warned: this is a delightfully kinky video game.
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