The week is still young, the weekend feels infinitely far away. But there is also reason to be happy. Hundreds of games appeared again last week on Steam, including some hidden gems you may have missed.
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5 Games You Probably Missed
Like last week, we’ve sifted through the sheer mass of daily Steam releases and picked out six titles that are definitely worth checking out.
Midnight Ghost Hunt
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Midnight Ghost Hunt: You better catch these ghosts before the clock strikes 12
Genre: Multiplayer hide and seek | developer: Vaulted Sky Games | price: 20 Euro
Asymmetric multiplayer titles such as Dead by Daylight or Left 4 Dead 2 are currently very much in vogue again: Propnight, a small indie success, was recently released, and games for Evil Dead and the Ghostbusters will follow in the coming months.
Our tip
Give Dead by Daylight a chance
But if you want to go ghost hunting now, you don’t have to wait until the release of Peter Venkman and colleagues. Midnight Ghost Hunt has been available in Early Access on Steam since last Friday.
The principle of the game is quickly explained: It’s five to twelve and a group of ghost hunters must catch all the ghosts before the clock strikes midnight – because at the witching hour the tide turns and the hunters become the hunted. To make this work, numerous high-tech gadgets such as radar or EMP measuring devices are available, and there’s even a kind of ghost vacuum cleaner.
The ghosts, on the other hand, hide in all sorts of objects and decorations and can even make active use of them: if a ghost slips into the cannon of an old pirate ship, for example, it can fire cannonballs with it. So if that doesn’t sound like fun!
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
Nightmare Reaper
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Genre: Retro-Shooter | developer: Blazing Bit Games | price: 21 Euro
It stays creepy! In the loot shooter Nightmare Reaper you roam the depths of a cursed nightmare. Okay, some of you may find the retro-style 3D graphics pretty spooky, but behind it is a really great old-school shooter.
In this distant heir to Doom and Blood, you’ll blast and jump through increasingly complex levels, loot weapons, learn new talents and, of course, turn tons of mean monsters into crimson pixel fountains – all set to a phat metal soundtrack created by Andrew Hulshult (Doom Eternal ) originates.
Steam tip
Retro shooter even more brutal than Doom
You can get even more information about Nightmare Reaper in the above preview from colleague André Baumgartner.
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
Indies‘ Lies
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Genre: Roguelike-Deckbuilder | developer: Hainan Yoka Network | price: 12 Euro
There is no need to reinvent the wheel to publish a good game. That’s probably what the developers of Indies’ Lies thought too, because at first glance the roguelike deck builder is strikingly reminiscent of the megahit Slay the Spire – for which the outstanding fan expansion Downfall has just been released:
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Slay the Spire was great, but that’s the cherry on top
You start with one of nine heroes, defeat enemies with your card-based skills and attacks and collect more cards – you know it so far. But Indies’ Lies is more than just a reskin.
In the course of a run, your main hero is joined by two other heroes, each with their own deck. Of course, this creates more complexity and great combo potential. You can try a free demo on Steam.
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
A=B
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Genre: programming puzzles | developer: Artless Games | price: 4 Euro
Many GameStar readers do something with computers. So not just gambling, but also professionally. If you want to use your skills from your IT job privately, you could play the challenging puzzle A=B have a lot of fun. Some of the later tasks are even supposed to be real brain teasers, so some prior knowledge definitely doesn’t hurt.
A user on Steam writes something like this:
In the theoretical part it is necessary to master some subtle knowledge such as: E.g. regular expressions and NFA to DFA conversion in the lexical analysis phase, LL and LR algorithms in the parsing phase, translation of control flow statements in the intermediate code generation phase, register allocation algorithms in the assembly code generation phase, etc.
Understood everything? Then you are definitely right with A=B!
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
Patrick’s Parabox
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Genre: thinking game | developer: Patrick Traynor | price: 17 Euro
99 percent positive ratings on Steam – something like that is extremely rare. But the abstract-minimalist puzzle game Patrick’s Parabox made it!
The starting position in each level is the same hereMission: You are in a box that has more boxes. You have to push them to certain positions and then leave the level. Sounds easy, but it’s going to be extremely difficult – because more and more difficult mechanics are waiting for you.
For example, you learn early on that you can enter some boxes by pushing them against walls. Later you use this to bypass barriers that exist without the Box-in-Box-Mechanik would be impossible to overcome.
Then you realize that you can bring other boxes into these boxes. And still later you discover that you can enter boxes that are placed in boxes, which then gives you access to other boxes.
That were now quite a lot of boxes and probably sounds incredibly complicated and wacky – so you might want to check out the trailer embedded above.
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
Coromon
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Coromon – Gameplay-Trailer zum Pokémon-like
Genre: Pokémon-like | developer: TRAGsoft | price: 17 Euro
Games in which you collect monsters and then fight them are always a good idea – otherwise there wouldn’t be what feels like 13,000 different Pokémon titles. There have also been some attempts in this area on the PC, most recently Temtem or the hardcore version Siralim: Ultimate:
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In the RPG I will spend 100 hours
with Coromon a new title is now attempting to finally become THE undisputed PC Pokémon. You get what you expect here: Over 100 different monsters to catch, turn-based battles, a huge open world, one or two puzzles and of course a classic JRPG-style story.
However, the developers have not only thought of beginners and built in a particularly easy level of difficulty, but also thought of popular professional challenges such as randomizers and even a Nuzlocke mode.
Here’s the link to the game on Steam
If you really don’t like any of the games presented or you just want to find out more about new games:
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Star Wars in the spotlight
My colleague Sören Diedrich will show you which games await you this week. Featuring a long-awaited Star Wars game, as well as a remake of a classic RPG that’s finally making its way to Steam.
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