With the end of the year approaching, Steam is back with a bang, as this week is full of exciting new games. The really big names of the last week are missing, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be boring. In particular, fans of construction and strategy games will be offered a lot this week.
Highlight of the week: Dwarf Fortress
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Dwarf Fortress: New trailer confirms upcoming Steam release
Genre: Construction Strategy | developer: Bay 12 Games | publication: December 4, 2022
Dwarf Fortress is the life’s work of brothers Tarn and Zach Adams, who have been working on the mega-project for over 16 years – and according to their own statements are not even halfway done with it.
Don’t let the name fool you: It’s also about dwarves and building a fortress, but the building game actually wants to realistically simulate a complete fantasy world and really everything that happens in it.
With each start of the game, a game world including a thousand-year history and hundreds of civilizations, characters, animals and monsters is generated – and you now have to build a base with a group of dwarfs to protect yourself from all kinds of lurking dangers.
Dwarf Fortress has a huge community of obsessed fans, in part because spiritual heirs like Rimworld possess only a fraction of the complexity of this absurdly detailed simulation.
An example: In battles, not only the skills of your dwarves are included in the calculation – in the event of a hit, body parts hit and the materials of armor and weapons are also taken into account, among other things.
The game is also known for its hilarious stories. For example, your dwarven warrior might give birth to a child in the middle of the battlefield, pick it up, and crack in the skulls with the newborn in her arms as the goblins attack.
Due to its high complexity, Dwarf Fortress has an extremely steep learning curve, but the Steam version is intended to make it much easier to get started with tutorials – so that hopefully even more players can experience this really fascinating project in the future.
More releases of the week
Monday, December 5th
Cafe Owner Simulator: Not a week goes by without a PlayWay simulation. This time the Polish publisher makes you the owner and manager of a coffee shop.
Space Wreck: A fallout-inspired end-times RPG from the iso perspective.
Tuesday December 6th
Hello Neighbor 2: In this thoroughly creepy stealth game, you, as a curious rascal, must once again uncover the secrets of your shady neighbor.
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Hello Neighbor 2 – Stealth Horror Sequel Coming to Xbox Series X!
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The current AC series part with a Viking scenario now also makes it from the Ubisoft Launcher Connect to Steam.
Knights of Honor 2: A 4X grand strategy game set in medieval Europe with strong similarities to the classic Medieval: Total War. You can find out whether the title could be something for you in our exclusive test:
Knights of Honor 2
We missed this kind of strategy – didn’t we?
Wednesday December 7th
Paragon: The Overprime: Epic Games’ failed third-person MOBA Paragon returns under a new developer, this time on Steam.
Ixion: Another exciting building game, this time in a sci-fi setting – because in Ixion you are the boss of a huge space station that is constantly growing.
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New gameplay from Ixion is just pure space atmosphere
Hubris: A really nice sci-fi shooter for all VR goggle owners.
Zombie Cure Lab: Another construction game, this time from Europey. Here you build a huge laboratory in which zombies will ultimately be made human again – but until then it will take a lot of time and even more research into new technologies.
Chained Echoes: You love old Super Nintendo RPGs like Lufia, Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger? Then you have to keep an eye on this retro role-playing game, which is programmed entirely by a single Europe developer named Matthias Linda.
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Chained Echoes – The one-man project with an extra dose of retro charm in the gamescom video
Thursday December 8th
Samurai Maiden: In this JRPG, a schoolgirl is catapulted into the Sengoku era and has to take on skeleton samurai and other baddies.
Solar Ash: In the new action-adventure from the creators of Hyper Light Drifter, you explore a strange planet where mighty beasts await you.
Friday December 9th
Choo-Choo Charles: A demonic train named Charles is chasing you in this survival horror game. Charles has spider legs, you have machine gun and flamethrower. Our Géraldine in particular can hardly wait for the release:
Choo-Choo Charles
“I wish I had never seen that.”
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Choo-Choo Charles is scarier than any train journey: The horror train will still be leaving in 2022
STALCRAFT: No Starcraft clone awaits you here, but a shooter MMO in the Chernobyl zone inspired by Stalker. Despite the looks that took some getting used to, the last open beta in October was well received by the players. Is the next big Free2Play hit waiting here?
What new game are you most looking forward to this week? Write it to us in the comments!
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