Helldivers 2’s new PC update targets server capacity and progression issues
Arrowhead has released a new update for the PC version of Helldivers 2.
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Lethal Company creator shares the most chaotic dev plan of all time: "I really want content updates to feel like I broke into an alien zoo and released all the animals"
You'd best hold onto your space helmets, as judging by comments made by Lethal Company's creator, things are about to get even wilder in the co-op scarefest.
Fans of Stacklands and Cultist Simulator should check out this cute little game about witch covens
A new real-time card game is getting popular within its quite indie niche: WitchHand, a cutesy-styled game about «leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands» launched just this past week, on February 7, 2024. Using cards, you build up buildings, gather apprentices and familiars, and assign them resources to do their jobs so that you can flourish in a kind of 4X strategy meets real-time card and resource management.
A giant snake monster ruined my apple-fueled medieval utopia in the Steam Next Fest demo for this settlement sim
I was doing pretty well in the Next Fest demo for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown. I'd achieved a happy equilibrium, with all my villagers gathering and producing the necessary supplies for my hand-built hamlet's steady growth. Lumberers were lumbering, quarriers were hauling rocks, and my orchard farmers were churning out apples: the basic fuel of every thriving feudal society, as any medievalist will tell you. The idyllic atmosphere was so peaceful I could almost forget about the accursed fog plaguing the land. Until that accursed fog manifested a rampaging snake kaiju, at least. Thrive, which you can check out in its Next Fest demo until February 12, has you play as one of the few people who've entered the deadly Waelgrim mist and survived, which was apparently all the excuse your king needed to pass the crown off to you and make the whole apocalypse situation your problem to manage. Now you're leading that fallen realm's refugees in the hopes of building a new home and future for your people. Evil fog's still around, though. Unfortunate. Due to arrive in early access on Steam sometime this year, Thrive is shooting for a blend of city-builder, 4X strategy and RTS combat. In practice, based on a run through the demo's tutorial, you can imagine it like a bunch of parallel games of Banished scattered across a big map, with AI or player-controlled kingdoms developing alongside yours. I like my share of laying roads and managing resources and Thrive serves up plenty of both, particularly on the resource front. Advancing through building tiers in the demo involves so many different resources that they don't all fit on the UI—at one point the tutorial informed me how to swap out the resource displays so I could track the ones I really cared about.
Blizzard finally has a solution for the unlucky Diablo 4 players with Uber Uniques they don't want
Hours of grinding for Diablo 4's rarest and most powerful items, Uber Uniques, won't guarantee you'll get the one you actually want. I'm in this situation right now. I've killed the boss who drops them almost 100 times and he refuses to give me the one I need. But next week, my bad luck with Uber Uniques will at least amount to something: Blizzard is going to let you break them down to create one of your choice.
Steam Next Fest survival game uses a similar system to Palworld, and its demo is 40 hours long
Steam Next Fest is back for another round of non-stop demos, including one survival game with more in common with Palworld than just its genre.
Diablo 4's forgettable XP boost event has me crossing my fingers that its upcoming leaderboards won't be as dull
Diablo 4's Lunar New Year event doesn't feel like an event at all. The promised cosmetic rewards take about an hour to earn and trying to find the XP-boosting Lunar Shrines is harder than trying to find an Uber Unique. It's as if the event was designed for the Diablo 4 that existed before season 2's overhaul, and Blizzard's hotfixes can't seem to make it much better.
The Inquisitor review
What is it? A dark fantasy adventure where players try to solve crimes and unearth heretics as Holy Inquisitor of the church, Mordimer Madderdin.Release date February 8, 2024Expect to pay $39.99/£34.99Developer The Dust S.A.Publisher Kalypso MediaReviewed on Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti, 32GB RAM (DDR4), AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, ASRock B450M Pro4Steam Deck TBALink Steam