This week: You can build a tranquil village in Enshrouded – or deal out beatings with Zafina in Tekken 8.
Survival games are back in fashion on Steam: Last week, Palworld hit like a bomb, and this week, Enshrouded, the next title could take Valve’s gaming platform by storm.
But strategy and action fans will also get their money’s worth this week, because there are some big names waiting for you.
Highlight of the week: Enshrouded
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You can build anything in this open-world RPG – Preview Enshrouded
With Enshrouded, the first big open world of 2024 is in the starting blocks: The survival game from the Europe studio Keen Games presents you with a hand-built game world measuring around 25 square kilometers with various biomes that you can explore and redesign solo or with up to 15 players.
A core aspect of the game is the innovative building system, which offers almost unlimited possibilities thanks to the use of a specially developed engine and voxel technology. Everything in the world is destructible and can be manipulated, which is intended to take creativity in base building to new dimensions.
Otherwise, Enshrouded is characterized by one Mixture of survival and role-playing elements out of. You don’t just collect all kinds of raw materials and craft as much as you can. You also gain experience, improve your character stats and select skills from an extensive skill tree in order to develop yourself roughly in three directions – warrior, ranger or magician.
You’ll find out how well this actually safe mixture works in practice in our early access test on Wednesday. Until then, you can take another look at our detailed preview:
More releases of the week
Monday, January 22nd
- Pirates Journey (Early Access): And another survival game! Here you become pirates who are stranded on a tropical island. The focus is on multiplayer and PvP.
Tuesday, January 23rd
- Stargate: Timekeepers: A real-time tactics game à la Commandos, but with a Stargate license. The plot picks up after the seventh season of the series and tells an alternative story in which you lead a new SG command. Well-known characters like Captain O’Neill or Teal’C are missing.
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Stargate Timekeepers: Brand new gameplay from the futuristic tactics game
Wednesday, January 24th
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy: Capcom’s visual novel series turns you into a lawyer and lets you solve 16 cases by collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses and arguing in court.
- Roots of Yggdrasil (Early Access): Not a classic building game, because in order to build your Viking village, you have to cleverly put together a strong deck of cards and play your buildings as cards.
- Anomaly Agent: A 2D cyberpunk platformer with an idiosyncratic but cool graphic style. As a secret agent, you must stop anomalies that threaten to destroy the entire world.
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In the cyberpunk game Anomaly Agent you fight and shoot your way through the crowds of enemies in style
Thursday, January 25th
- Mad World – Age of Darkness: In this Free2Play iso-perspective MMORPG, you are thrown into a dark world where you can seamlessly team up with other players to destroy huge hordes of enemies.
- Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Ichiban Kasuga returns in the next part of the JRPG offshoot of the Yakuza series, this time making the paradisiacal Hawaii unsafe.
- Tekken 8: After a nine-year break, there is exactly what you would expect from a new Tekken: tough fights, 32 old and new characters, an overly dramatic story and an opulent storm of effects, which you should watch straight away in the trailer:
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In the story trailer for Tekken 8, sparks fly – verbally and physically
Friday, January 26th
- Into the Necrovale (Early Access): At the end of the week there is an action roguelike in the style of Hades, in which everything revolves around finding powerful objects, all of which should interact with each other and thus enable powerful builds.
Phew, a pretty exciting week full of potential hits awaits you. Which game are you most looking forward to this time? Did you like the unique base building in Enshrouded? Are you excited to finally get a Stargate game? Or do you want to dust off your friends’ chewing bars in Tekken 8? Write it to us in the comments!
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