Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Uzzy - Out August 24th
From new developers Cold Iron Studios comes a co-operative third person shooter set, quite unsurprisingly, in the Aliens universe. As one of three battle hardened marines, you must fight your way through hordes of an ever evolving xenomorph threat.
Ambition: A Minuet in Power - Uzzy - Out August 18th
This romantic visual novel sees you play as a woman of fashion in Paris, 1789, navigating the complexities of the Parisian social scene and striving for status and maybe even true love. Mingle with the rich and powerful, exchange in court gossip, woo the hearts of many and learn their secrets. Just don't lose your head.
Age of Empires III: DE - The African Royals - Uzzy - Out August 2nd
Adding two new civilisations to Age of Empires III, Ethopia and the Hausa, complete with unique units and technologies (Gatling Camel, anyone?) as well as three themed historical battles, including the Battle the Three Kings.
Age of Empires II: DE - Dawn of the Dukes - Mentalist - Out August
More Age of Empires II! Two new civilizations, the Poles and the Bohemians, and bonus campaign for the Lithuanians, covering the landmark Battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald) among other moments. Delve into birth of the Polish-Lithuanian Personal Union, the precursor to the great Commonwealth, and relive the first continental Reformation during the Hussite Wars. This is obviously just more of the tried and true Age of Kings gameplay, but with Hussite Wars campaign being my biggest dream for the game, it's amazing to see it realized.
Carrier Command 2 - Uzzy - Out August 10th
The spiritual successor to the classic 80's game, Carrier Command 2 is an RTS that puts in you in command of a futuristic robotic carrier and it's arsenal of weaponry, aircraft and amphibious units, setting out to conquer a series of islands. Using the carrier's intel gathering packages, you must learn where the enemy is present and use the carrier's resources to strike at them, driving them from the islands to exploit their resources for further missions.
City of Gangsters - Uzzy - Out August 9th
The arrival of prohibition has opened up a space in the city's economy, a highly profitable one for those willing to get their hands dirty, and it's your job to fill it, getting rich by keeping the liquor flowing. Build your distilleries, distribution networks and speakeasies, bribe police to look the other way and assemble your own crew to defend your empire from rivals.. and take the fight to them. The city is yours for the taking.
Death Trash - Uzzy - Out in Early Access August 5th
From indie developers Crafting Legends, Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game where cosmic horrors crave humanity but meet punks with shotguns. Customise your punk using a variety of skills, and approach the wasteland your way, refusing to kill anyone, or smashing them in the face with hammers.
Final Fantasy IV - Uzzy - Out August 19th
The original FINAL FANTASY IV comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodelled 2D take on the fourth game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
Fire Tonight - Uzzy - Out August 12th
A narrative driven point and click game, Fire Tonight sees two lovers separated by a city on fire. As Maya, you must navigate the flames and the police barricades by car, train and rollerskate, trying to make it back home, while Devin waits back at the apartment reminiscing about the time spent together.
Glitchpunk - Uzzy - Out in Early Access August 11th
As a glitching android, you're able to go against your programming. Which you do by taking down the tyrannical governments running the dystopian nightmare of neon slick streets and megacorp skyscrapers. Select from an arsenal of weaponry and stolen cars, driving around the four different urban environments to take out gang leaders, corporate agents and whatever passes for the law as synthwave tunes blast out from the radio. Featuring a top-down perspective reminiscent of certain classics, this is Cyberpunk meets Grand Theft Auto. Again.
Grime - Mentalist - Out August 2nd
An intriguing metroidvania with soulslike, stamina-based combat, where the protagonist is a sentient black hole, exploring a world inspired by Beksinski- meaning, a lot of organic biopunk weirdness. There`s a decent variety of weapons with special abilities, and RPG systems and character progression. The demo was pretty great, and the setting feels refreshingly strange.
HUMANKIND - Uzzy - Out August 17th
Amplitude Studios have made a number of excellent 4X games in recent years, including Endless Legend and Endless Space 2. But while those were set in their quite inspired sci-fi universe 'Endless', for their latest game they've stepped up their ambition and look to be taking aim at the grand daddy of all 4X games. No, not Master of Orion 2, but Civilization itself. And when you come at the king, you best not miss. Especially when he's as nice as Sid Meier.
HUMANKIND promises to let you rewrite the entire narrative of human history with each playthrough, which is a really quite bold claim, but from the demo they're at least taking a swipe at it. Unlike Civilization, you start as a band of hunter gatherers, exploring the world until you decide to settle, then pick from one of multiple cultures to adopt through each age. So far, two big complaints against the nature of Civilization struck down, an ahistorical start and changing civilisations. The end game is drastically different from Civilization too, with victory points, called Fame, accumulated throughout the game for your deeds and actions right from the very beginning of your tribe. There's tactical battles, one city per area (which can be expanded out to claim other areas should you wish) along with a host of other changes to the Civilization formula. Amplitude Studios have already proved their worth as fantastic 4X developers in the past, so this is looking to be something special.
King's Bounty II - Uzzy - Out August 24th
A sequel to the King's Bounty series sees the return of the turn based RPG. Build an army, assemble your squad and help save the world of Nostria.
Lamentum - Mentalist - Out August 31st
A top-down Resident Evil set in a 19th century New England mansion where the occult Lovecraftian horrors are breaking through. Play as a young aristocrat who has enlisted the assistance of an eccentric occultist to save his dying wife, but now wakes up with amnesia in a mansion overrun by horrors. Featuring classic Resident Evil gameplay such as inventory management, save rooms, and puzzles that involve examining and manipulating objects in your inventory for clues, as well as choosing when to fight and when to avoid the cosmic horrors, all done in a wonderful 2d pixel art style, with tight corridors that remind me of my favourite top-down game, `Blood Omen". Steam demo is still available, so check this one out!
Lawn Mower Simulator - Oinone - Out August 10th
Everyone knows about Rule 34, but people talk barely about Rule 35: If it exists, there is a simulator of it.
Nothing is better than mowing your lawn at 6 AM on a Sunday morning, and now you can do so no matter the weather and without your neighbours wanting to kill you.
A whole British town with impressive estates waits to be mowed by you. Choose the lawnmower of your favourite real life brand, check the terrain to adjust your tools right and mow your company to the top!
There is a demo available, if you want to test the green beforehand. So what are you waiting for? This grass won't cut itself.
Madden NFL 22 - Uzzy - Out August 21st
The long running 'American Football' series returns with it's new yearly edition, featuring the likes of Tomb Raidy and Patrick Mahomes throwing footballs around. At least the Americans can win this one right?
Mortal Shell - Uzzy - Out August 18th on Steam
A deep action souls-like RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Your adversaries spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes. This Steam edition launches with The Virtuous Cycle DLC, which even adds in a Roguelike mode.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT - Uzzy - Out August 12th
A new entrant into the Battle Royale space, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT aims to stand out from the crowd with it's wuxia inspiration worn proudly on it's sleeve. Featuring a focus on melee combat and vertical arenas you can freely climb with your grappling hook, NARAKA sees you leaping from tree to tree, building to building, clashing blades at the ready.
New World - Uzzy - Out August 31st
Need a new MMO? Why not look at New World, Amazon studios first foray into the field. No moral quandaries there at least.
Shipwrecked on the supernatural island of Aeternum, you'll find endless opportunities to fight, forage, and forge await you among the island's wilderness and ruins. Channel supernatural forces or wield deadly weapons in a classless, real-time combat system, and fight alone, with a small team, or in massed armies for PvE and PvP battles—the choices are all yours. Arm yourself with brutal melee weapons, ranged artillery, or supernatural powers and jump into New World's classless, real-time action combat system.
Psychonauts 2 - Uzzy - Out August 25th
15 years on, the sequel to the much beloved Psychonauts is finally here. Double Fine and Tim Schaffer return to give us the continuation of Razputin's adventures at Psychonaut HQ, where he quickly learns that things are not as they seem. Dive into unique platforming environments to battle the demons in people's minds, resolve their emotional baggage, and ultimately, help them heal. With quirky laughs to stop things getting too heavy.
Recompile - Mentalist - Out August 19th
A 3D Metroidvania that feels like TRON. The protagonist is is an embodiment of a program that`s struggling to avoid deletion in a computer that categorizes it as an intruder. Incorporating 3rd person shooting, puzzle-solving, and platforming exploration, this is another great take on the genre. The eventual ability to chain together jumps and air dashes turns you into a digitized superhero, exploring massive, 3D digitized constructs in ways that games like TRON haven`t really done yet.
Road 96 - Uzzy - Out August 16th
From Digixart, the developers of such titles as Valiant Hearts and 11-11 Memories Retold comes Road 96. Banned by Facebook, this deeply political road trip simulator sees you on the road trying to escape your totalitarian country of Petria. Take one of thousands of routes out, meeting new people each with their own story to tell, dodge the law and authorities, make choices that shape your destiny and those around you as you bid to escape.. and just maybe reach the border.
Tetris Effect: Connected - Uzzy - Out August 18th on Steam
Tetris Effect finally comes to Steam, with an all new multiplayer expansion. Tetris Effect is Tetris like you've never seen it, or heard it, or felt it before—an incredibly addictive, unique, and breathtakingly gorgeous reinvention of one of the most popular puzzle games of all time, from the people who brought you the award-winning Rez Infinite and legendary puzzle game Lumines.
Music, backgrounds, sounds, special effects—everything, down to the Tetriminos themselves, pulse, dance, shimmer, and explode in perfect sync with how you're playing, making any of the game's 30+ stages and 10+ modes something you'll want to experience over and over again.
While it doesn't need VR, from all accounts it's much the superior game with it. Still, nice to have the option.
The Big Con - Uzzy - Out August 31st
A 90s Era Coming of Age comedy featuring a curious and sarcastic high schooler out to do crime? I'm in. Hustle your way across '90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad '90s in all its plaid and payphone glory! But this isn't a joyride! Ali is on an all-important mission to save her family video store from the nasty loan sharks trying to shut their shop down.
Twelve Minutes - Uzzy - Out August 19th
Developed by Luis Antonio and published by Annapurna Interactive, Twelve Minutes is a click and drag thriller about a man stuck in a time loop, destined to relive the same horrifying twelve minutes over and over again unless he can find a way out. Featuring the voice talents of James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Defoe, Twelve Minutes traps you in the claustrophobic confines of the four walls of your house and the endless recursion of time.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Uzzy
So OK this is mostly going to be me gushing about the last truly great 4X game. One that came out way back in 1999, and has still to be bettered in all honesty. Will Humankind better it? Well even coming close will be impressive enough, although Alpha Centauri is a very different type of game really. Rather than relying on history as the structure for gameplay, Alpha Centauri sees humanity set out on the colonisation of space, and so must be written wholesale. Which in this case is spectacularly written by Brian Reynolds, telling a sci-fi tale of the remnants of humanity fleeing a dying world, only to fall into petty squabbling over ideology as soon as they arrive on Planet, which they all quickly discover is not the virgin new world they assumed. With each faction splitting off into their own independent state with their own conflicting vision for the future of humanity, you must lead one of them in a clash of ideological supremacy.
And it's here where the writing really pays off. Inspired by a lot of sci fi works, but mostly notably Dune, Red Mars and The Jesus Incident, Brian Reynolds constructed a memorable world of leaders utterly convinced that their ideology was the one true way, showing both the good and bad, with no one side being played as cartoonish villains. Even the religious fanatics get some good points made in their favour. The world and story are explored through the construction of regular buildings and special projects, each accompanied with a bit of text or motion video, many of which are far more memorable and better told than anything that's been delivered since. Not even Sean Bean or Leonard Nimoy could compete! Listening to Colonel Corazon Santiago talking about the benefits of having a children's creche built stays with me. Then you have the world itself, Planet, which as the game develops comes ever more to life, the random attacks of the psychic 'mind worms' soon becoming ever more focused and directed and.. intelligent. Humanities survival depends on co-existence and eventually co-operation with the intelligence inside(?) the Planet itself.
It's a really memorable game, and honestly no amount of gameplay improvements can supplant this one for me. It's a shame that Beyond Earth, despite being so much better in gameplay terms and overall production values and polish, ended up feeling utterly lifeless by comparison. I'll be revisiting it in advance of HUMANKIND, hoping for another leap in 4X gaming.
Colonists landing on Planet this month:
Outer Wilds - Uzzy
There's a new DLC coming! Seeing that announced made me realise that, hey, I've still not played this masterpiece, even with my wonderful hubby brokenswiftie extoling it's virtues in a recent thread.
So I think it's about time I did that. And in the process hopefully not break reality.
Explorers who've met with a terrible fate:
As always, there's a plethora of great indie titles coming out next month, and Toma has put together a video preview of ten of them debuting in July. Check that video out below!
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