A role-playing insider tip awaits in the last week of the year

Christmas is over, the family visits are over and with New Year’s Eve the next big event is just around the corner. Hopefully you can spend the hopefully quiet days between the holidays with lots of good games – either from the many current winter sales or with one of the new releases of the week. Because in the last week of the year, some interesting games will appear on Steam again.

Highlight of the week: Pathogenesis: Overcome

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The top-down role-playing game Pathogenesis: Overcome combines elements from Fallout, Stalker, DayZ and Project Zomboid and knits a thoroughly exciting mixture of them. In 2023, a zombie apocalypse has broken out due to a global pandemic and you must now find your place in the devastated world.

According to the developers, the focus should be on the story campaign, but the game offers numerous elements that you know from survival and open-world role-playing games. Loot, crafting and exploration are on board as well as clans and factions that you can join.

When it comes to combat, Pathogenesis goes hardcore: ammunition is scarce and heavy, and a single hit can be deadly. So you should always consider carefully whether you really always want to solve problems with violence.

More releases of the week

Monday 26 December

• MIA: A multiplayer survival game where 20 players fight for a precious relic on an island.

Tuesday, December 27th

• ILLUMINATI: A turn-based strategy game based on the 1994 classic card game in which you, as the Illuminati, must conquer the world.

Wednesday December 28th

• Slender Myth: A new horror game starring the creepy Slender Man in which you – surprise! – Have to search pages in a dark forest.

The first Slender Man game caused massive horror hype on YouTube about ten years ago – and we almost peed our pants back then:

Friday December 30th

• Horror Tales: The Astronaut: In this horror game you wake up in an abandoned space station, the oxygen is running out and to top it all, you notice eerie shadows scurrying around the corridors of the station.