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Travel to an alien planet where you can build machines and raise 'morps' with your pals.

Time to Morp, the Alien Colony Sim, Lands on Steam Early Access

Sometimes you just want to get away. Where better than an alien planet? In Time to Morp from Team Halfbeard and Yogscast Games, up to four online players can team up to colonize an alien planet. On that planet, they will raise cutesy aliens called morps, harvest resources, and build machines. Time to Morp has just arrived on Steam Early Access, so it's officially morpin' time.

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Players will team up to battle across floating islands in this promising roguelike.

The Creator of Dead Cells Has a Co-op Game Called Windblown in the Works

Dead Cells is an absolutely fantastic roguelike platformer that unfortunately lacks co-op. Thus, when that developer, Motion Twin, announces a new roguelike with co-op, we take notice! Windblown is coming to Steam Early Access next year and will feature fast-paced gameplay and online co-op. It can't come soon enough!

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This colorful third-person shooter has open playtest this week.

Stylish Co-op Shooter 'Atomic Picnic' Announced for Steam Early Access

Roguelike shooters come in many shapes and sizes. The recently announced Atomic Picnic from Brazilian developer BitCake Studio and Mad Mushroom utilizes a Splatoon-like third-person perspective and some genuinely look-looking characters. Up to four online players will get to team up and blast away at waves of enemies in colorful environments. Things are still early, but it looks like a fun, frenetic, and challenging game, and it will be coming to Steam Early Access in the spring.

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We chat with Mark Cooke about the latest update and more

Inkbound Interview with Shiny Shoe

Following up on their deck-building, roguelite hit, Monster Train, developer Shiny Shoe set their sights on making another roguelite; this time with a focus on turn-based mechanics and the ability to play with friends. Inkbound became available via Steam Early Access this past May and already showed a lot of promise. This past week it received its first free major update, "The Starship of Terrors," that added a bunch of new features and improved a number of things based on community feedback. We spoke with founder and CEO Mark Cooke about this update, along with inspirations for Inkbound and the challenges of balancing classes for solo and co-op play.

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A lot of QOL changes make a great game even better

Inkbound: Starship of Terrors Recap and Impressions

Inkbound, the new co-op roguelite from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, received a big update last week, titled "The Starship of Terrors." This was a significant milestone for the title as it not only added new content to the game - including a new character class, a new zone, a new daily challenge, and a new way to craft your ideal build via "trinkets" - but it also tweaked and refined a number of existing features; it's also entirely free.

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Form a team of 3 operatives and then set out to explore a zombie-filled corporate headquarters.

Roguelike Horror Shooter 'Blackout Protocol' Arrives on Steam Early Access

Blackout Protocol is a newly-released roguelike from Ocean Dive Studio that combines elements third-person shooting, roguelike elements, and horror. Players take on the role of newly recruited security personnel for a corporation whose research base has been overrun by zombies and mercenaries. The game is built for 3-player online co-op, and it already plays really well, despite some balance issues.

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After being trapped in another world, players will build and fight to survive in this sequel to DYSMANTLE.

10tons announces DYSPLACED, a Co-op Survival RPG, for Steam and Consoles

A couple of years ago,  Finnish developer 10tons released DYSMANTLE, an action RPG with mild survival elements set in a zombie apocalypse. The studio is following up with DYSPLACED, a similar game in a new setting. This one sees players transported and displaced to a mysterious new world where they will battle Fortnite: Save the World-like mon...

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Prepare to team up and thwart the Old Ones before they escape the island!

'Eresys' Will Unleash Co-op Lovecraftian Horror onto Steam Early Access on April 20

Indie horror games can be a bit hit or miss. Sometimes, you end with some something truly imaginative and frightening. Other times, you get Holy Purge (yikes). We certainly hope that Eresys will fall into the first category when it arrives on Steam Early Access on April 20. This one allows up to 4 online players to become cultists who must work to push back an invasion of Lovecraftian horrors in a dark forest. That certainly sounds spooky!

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

We Are Screwed! Hits Early Access Today - March 1st!

We Are Screwed! is a colorful and chaotic looking co-op game hitting Early Access via Steam today for up to four players. You'll be teaming up to face swarms of foes as you and your friends pilot your way through randomly generated galaxies. According to the game's description you'll "blast your enemies, extinguish fires, clean up, repair, recycle and explore where no one has screwed up before!"

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Play a new game type and unlock fun prizes in this unique game.

Wacky Co-op Racing Game 'Fling to the Finish' Gets a Big Update on Steam

Daedalic Entertainment and developer Splitside Games call Fling to the Finish a racing game. It certainly is a racing game, but a platforming racer like Sonic R, not a kart racer. in Fling to the Finish, two local or online players control ball-like characters who are tethered by a rope and must work together to reach the end of each level, a process that ends up being riotously fun. This Steam Early Access game just got a new race type to enjoy as well as a progression system that ties everything together. Oh, and it's on sale through July 28!

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Heroic mech pilots must fight alongside turrets in this tower defense action game.

Team Up as Mechs in VOIDCRISIS, Coming to Steam Early Access on August 3

Japanese developer HexaDrive has worked on plenty of games for big publishers, including titles like Super Bomberman R, Final Fantasy XV, and Okami HD. Now the studio is gearing up to unleash a PC game of its very own. VOIDCRISIS is a gorgeous "tower offense" game in which up to four players team up to pilot mechs and thwart mysterious alien invaders. It will launch on Steam Early Access at the beginning of August.

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