Indie The Thermocline beta demo is available.
Thermocline beta demo listing reveals a frigid dark sci-fi survival game, but release date, platform, developer, and publisher remain unknown.
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Indie Even in their most chaotic and conflicted moments, BioWare remained the heart of the Western computer role-playing game.
BioWare's 30-year legacy shaped Western RPGs through parties, companions, branching plots, romance, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, chaos, and closure.
Indie Dispatch Marks Its One-Year Anniversary by Adding Commentary and Storyboard Modes to Every Episode, If You Already Own the Deluxe Edition
Dispatch's anniversary update adds 16-hour commentary and storyboard modes for Deluxe owners, plus a December 3 concert.
Indie Reports claim an internal Mass Effect 5 trailer has leaked, giving you a look at a sequel you will never get to play.
After EA shut down BioWare and cancelled Mass Effect 5, a leaked internal trailer showed the cancelled Mass Effect Universe pre-production concept.
Indie The robot-smashing catharsis game Virtue and a Sledgehammer launches next week, but an experimental visual novella prologue is available to play right now.
Virtue: Prologue is a free visual novella previewing the sledgehammer game, via email signup, with flashing-image caution before next week's release.
Indie A Line Held Tight is a charcoal-styled visual novel set during a 32nd-century miners’ strike, where you must choose your relationships wisely.
Humble Grove's A Line Held Tight is a sci-fi visual novel about a 32nd-century miners' strike, with relationship choices and a Steam Next Fest demo.
Indie Sign Up for the Fae & Fauna Beta
Fae & Fauna is an open-world creature collecting RPG. A beta sign-up post appeared on Alpha Beta Gamer; no confirmed date, platform, or details yet.
Indie NuTREEnts Offers a Beta Demo
NuTREEnts is a tower defense roguelike set on a dying planet. It grows a forest and has early visibility via a beta demo, with no release details.
Indie Scramble Heart City opens beta sign-up.
Scramble Heart City is a 3v3 tag team fighter with easy play and deep mechanics; beta sign-up is on Alpha Beta Gamer. No date or platform confirmed.
Indie Dawn of War 4 clearly celebrates the earlier Warhammer 40,000 strategy games, yet it forgets how much they loved reinventing themselves.
Dawn of War 4 revives classic Warhammer 40,000 strategy gameplay with modern tools, but after earlier reinventions it feels competent and familiar.
Indie Following Samson Developer's bankruptcy, its founder is considering how AI might factor into new studio plans, saying, "I want room to make a wrong turn."
Samson developer Sundberg plans a smaller studio with low costs, limited AI, and room for fixes after Liquid Swords' bankruptcy.
Indie I repeatedly embarrass myself before the nature gods in the hand-painted two-dimensional roguelike Talaka, whose colourful and combative demonstration is now available.
Talaka is a hand-painted roguelike about Brazilian Orishas, mixing Hades-like loops, paint-swipe combat, Candomblé gods, and still-floaty movement.
Indie A puzzle game requires you to avoid facing someone while riding an elevator, the most awkward thing imaginable.
A Steam demo puzzle turns elevator eye contact into a tractor beam Sokoban challenge, linked to a workplace joke about a tech executive.
Indie The Edgerunners 2 update for Cyberpunk 2077 introduces two new quests, dual handgun wielding, and the ability to customize mantis blades.
Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 adds an Edgerunners 2 quest, a lore quest, dual handgun combat, cyberware customization, and cross-platform modding.
Indie Brace yourself, because Mortal Shell 2's Rotten Autumn update is loaded with 15 new dungeons, a photo mode, an alternate soundtrack, and a cool pumpkin helmet.
Mortal Shell 2's free Rotten Autumn update adds 15 dungeons, 10 tarstones, a new soundtrack, photo mode, shell cosmetics, and gameplay fixes.
Indie I know mushrooms probably are not in your backlog, but the fungus-themed loot shooter Mycopunk has released version 1.0 and looks like the opposite of a shiitake time.
Mycopunk 1.0 launched on PC and PlayStation 5 with new class, mission, region, weapons, hats, emotes, and quality-of-life updates.
Indie Excavate through an infested planet with your giant drill-city and fight to survive in the roguelite city-builder CitaDrill.
CitaDrill demo is a roguelite city-builder where a drill-city digs through an infested planet, gathers resources, and defends against bosses before year-end.
Indie I have witnessed the future of sports games, and its name is Just Volleyball.
Just Volleyball Steam demo offers Mii-like avatars, controller-based volleyball, and casual Wii-inspired action before its November 4 release.
Indie Pull trash from a flooded world and make the numbers rise as satisfyingly as possible in the incremental fishing game Selkie's Salvage and Company.
Selkie's Salvage & Co. is an incremental fishing game where a robot grinds trash and upgrades automation before its October 27 Steam launch.
Indie Sign Up for the Lifeguard Simulator Beta
Lifeguard Simulator is a beach rescue sim with quads, jet skis, boats, drones, and helicopters; beta sign-up is open, but no platform or date given.