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The studio behind Universal Paperclips and Babble Royale is making a word game tower defense where AXE chops wood, FORT tanks hits and DOCTOR heals. It has 121,683 levels, and the whole player base is meant to clear them together.
Free Lives' physics brawler left Early Access on September 23 with a final boss at the bottom of a billionaire's bunker and a new Neurolink mode built on mind powers. It's Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam and half price for launch.
Kyle Thompson's dark fairy-tale metroidvania launched on September 22 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Switch and Switch 2, straight into Game Pass. It sits at 91 on Metacritic and Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam.
Miquta Studios announced Project Night, a first-person survival horror game whose fog, sodium light and abandoned police station already look genuinely frightening. No release date yet.
A Kyiv studio turned stretchy arms, proximity chat and detachable butts into one of the most gleefully stupid co-op games on Steam. It's in Early Access now with 220,000 wishlists behind it, and it costs less than lunch.
House House followed Untitled Goose Game with a 2 to 12 player adventure built entirely around talking to each other. It's sitting at 91 on Metacritic, and it's this month's PS Plus freebie.
RV There Yet turned a game-jam joke into 4.5 million sales. If the caravan chaos left you wanting more, these 10 friendslop and physics co-op games deliver the same shouting, laughing, and total collapse.
A dinosaur soulslike born from a 30-second animation posted in 2022, built by one person, launched July 23 with 600,000 wishlists behind it. Here's what Dinoblade is and how it landed.
OhNoo Studio's dark point-and-click sequel arrives July 23, eleven years after the cult original. Two people, eight years, and a Giger-soaked world drawn entirely by hand.
GAZE IN GAMES announced Shady Job, a four-player co-op game where you haul a body bag up a skyscraper to bury it in concrete. The problem: the body is alive, and it wants out.
FLEXUS just announced Dear Passengers, a physics-based co-op game where you and your friends crew a falling-apart plane full of illegal cargo. Here's why it's worth a wishlist.
Little Chicken's vampire life sim launched to Very Positive reviews. Here's who Moonlight Peaks is for, where it shines, and where the night drags.