Forsworn and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon Steam a new roguelike, conceived with turn-based combat and cooperative multiplayer... Ahem! That's Forsworn, a new 3-player game from Sacramento-based indie developer Resummon Studios. It's out now on Steam, I swear it! I swear it, I swear it, I swear it.
Ever since the release of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and the MacGruber movie, people have been crazy about defusing bombs. Nobody wants to blow up, and everybody wants to be a hero, after all. As of today, there's a new bomb defusal game in town: BOMBANANA! from Lefto Studio and TARK.
Okay, I missed the announcement when Hotel Barcelona opened its doors on consoles and PC back in September. I mean, it sounds like a hotel and not a game, right? The rain in Spain is mainly on the plain, as they say. It sounds like the game was also a little bit confusing in the gameplay department when it first launched. This month, developers White Owls and Dark Product published the major "Under New Management" update to solve that little problem. The update improves combat, multiplayer, and lots more.
Windblown is the game that answers the question, "What would a Hades-style game from the makers of Dead Cells be like?" Since debuting on Steam Early Access last fall, Motion Twin's latest roguelike has already received several updates. Today's "Gift Update" overhauls the game's Gift (passive upgrades) system, adds new gifts and weapons, and more. From the sound of it, the update doesn't blow!
A couple of years back, Ocean Dive Studio released a roguelike shooter called Blackout Protocol on Steam Early Access. During the Early Access period, the developers made some big changes, enhancing the single-player experience, overhauling gameplay, reworking co-op, and even renaming the game. Now titled Section 13, the game has fully launched on Steam and also debuted on Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 consoles (albeit without co-op support at present).
It could be said that Brain Seal Ltd, the developer of the Dark Quest series, is wishy-washy on co-op. Every other game is either single-player or co-op. Thankfully, the upcoming Dark Quest 4 will be one of the co-op ones. In fact, it looks like this will be the biggest and best game yet in the board game-style dungeon crawling series. A demo has recently arrived on Steam, and the game will come to both consoles and PC later this year.
All the way back in 2023, Thunder Lotus Games announced 33 Immortals for Xbox and PC. The game launched in early access on March 18, but only on Xbox Series S|X consoles and Epic Game Store. What about the aging Xbox One, you ask? What about Steam? Well, one of those questions has finally been answered. As of last week, 33 Immortals is now playable on Xbox One. Hopefully those pre-SSD loading times won't affect other users!
Daemon X Machina is a popular mech game that debuted on Switch in 2019 and then on Steam the following year. One thing that has always held it back, however, is that it's not available on Xbox and PlayStation. Well, the sequel sure won't make that mistake! Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is coming to all current platforms this September, and it promises more co-op goodness than ever before.
Geolocation games (also known as location-based games) are mobile games that incorporate changes in the player's real-world location into the gameplay. The most famous example is Pokemon Go, but there are other geolocation games out there too. Mythwalker is one such title from NantGames. It allows up to three players to team up to battle monsters and complete quests together, even if they're not located in the same area.
We've been intrigued by 33 Immortals ever since it was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase in 2023. It promises to be the first 33-player online co-op game, a very unique number. Players will become damned souls and then team up with others to participate in large-scale raids against huge hordes of enemies and massive bosses. All that, plus Ro...
Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has been a long time coming - the first game debuted over 10 years ago! The wait is nearly over, thankfully, as the game will fully launch on September 9. Players who preordered the fancy editions of the game are already enjoying its 3-player online co-op and PvP modes, but the rest of us won't have to wait too much longer.
Megaton Musashi W from LEVEL5 is a mecha-themed action RPG for Switch and Steam. The game tells an epic story of humans piloting mechs as they fight to take back the planet from alien invaders. Megaton Musashi just got even bigger thanks to a major update that adds the famous anime robot, Grendizer, as a pilotable mech. What's more, the game is currently on sale for half off for the first time!
