The Victorian England steampunk setting is a perfect backdrop for the narrative-focused RPG Sovereign Syndicate. Similar to other titles like Disco Elysium and almost as wacky with its unique characters and dialogue, it has players playing as three different characters and uses tarot cards instead of dice to determine skill checks.
City builder titles are incredibly popular right now, and Timberborn finds a way to stand out from the rest with a post-apocalyptic plot that finds industrious beavers constructing massive cities, healing the land and trying to do a better job than their human predecessors.
Balatro is a new roguelike deck builder that takes the general rules of poker, and then uses mercurial joker cards to magically scramble everything around for players trying to achieve high scores and battle big bosses. It’s a unique experience with eight difficulty levels to test players’ skills and luck.
The Railway Empire 2: Journey to the East DLC takes players on a whole new railroad-building adventure through the Balkans and to Constantinople with new locomotives, cities and an exclusive new luxury train service. It’s a challenging but rewarding addition to Railway Empire 2.
Players in Abriss – Build to Destroy are tasked with some heavy demolition jobs using some really unique and dangerous methods of destruction like utilizing combat tanks, explosions and tossing big blocks into target buildings to try and cause a dramatic, cascading collapse.
One of the most detailed hunting simulations released in years, Way of the Hunter keeps its content fresh with constant new additions like hunting tools, animals and weapons. Their most recent release, Matariki Park brings hunters to New Zealand.
There is a little bit of everything in Rising Lords, which on the surface plays like a medieval version of Civilization. But below the surface you have elements of city building, turn-based combat, management and even some board game elements to keep things interesting.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns has an interesting history of critical acclaim coupled with far less commercial success. Now, the XCOM-like title is available for most consoles and the PC, and you can even find it on super sale on some platforms like Steam, which makes for a very good deal.
Quickly rising to the number one spot in sales for both the PlayStation and Steam charts, Helldivers 2 deploys with one of the most interesting and action-packed, third person squad-based shooters to grace consoles and the PC in many years.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is an open-world RPG where players get to play as wingless pixie-like creatures trying to build a new home and survive on the big surface world where even other creatures like bugs, spiders and wasps can become deadly foes.
