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Rosewater is Francisco González’s latest adventure game set in the alternate history of Lamplight City. It swaps the murky Victorian gutters of its predecessor for cacti and lavender sunsets in a reimagined American West circa 1850. But as hard as I try to imagine myself as a ‘venturin’ cowpoke, I wind up feeling more like a prospector, sifting through dust in hopes of finding the gold that I see glimmers of out here
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If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to build a gaming PC, the Amazon Spring Sale is delivering the goods. Whether you’re working with a tight budget or planning to max out performance, there are fantastic deals across every core component, from CPUs to SSDs and graphics cards. We’ve put together two builds to cover both ends of the spectrum: a value-packed budget build, and a no-compromises high-end monster.
MicroProse or whatever currently prospers under the decades-old MicroProse banner have announced that they’re publishing Strategos, a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. I hadn’t heard of the game before, and my first reaction to the above screenshot was “oh hey, Total War: Rome”. Then I veni, vidi, vickied on over to the Steam page, and it turns out that might be a flawed comparison, not least because Strategos is the creation of a single designer and programmer with artists working on contract. Here’s a trailer.
Pillars Of Eternity turns 10 years old this week, and developers Obsidian are celebrating with a patch that “addresses a wide range of fixes and improvements across visuals, combat, quests, and more”. Oh, and they’ve also announced plans to give the real-time-with-pausing RPG a turn-based combat mode.
What did you get for your 10th birthday? If it wasn’t a turn-based combat mode, then your parents officially love you less than Obsidian does Pillars Of Eternity. You might want to bring that up at the next family gathering. I’m already texting my dad.
Quick reflexes and brute strength will only get you so far in the brawls of Forestrike. This Devolver-published rougelike of pixel art punishment was announced last summer and has been quietly meditating in a bush somewhere ever since. But this week the developers released a demo in which you can practice the flowing dodges and sneaky turnarounds of the “Leaf” school (a style of fighting from one of five masters planned to appear in the full game). As the fighty boy of RPS, I’ve had a go. It’s quite the satisfying little bruiser. Imagine if someone demade Sifu with retro graphics and wisdomously advised you that the brain hits harder than the hand.
Grit & Valor – 1949 is the tale of an alternate timeline in which the Nazis got hold of mechs and promptly overran the British Isles. As Nic semi-alluded last year, you could summarise the game itself as the product of a timeline in which the people behind Wolfenstein: The New Order decided to make Into the Breach instead. Except that it isn’t quite as deviously made, based on the demo, and it isn’t turn-based. Ah, I do kind of wish it was turn-based.
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Running out of space on your Steam Deck is basically a rite of passage. You start off thinking 512GB is plenty, then suddenly you’ve got five AAA games, six indies, and no room left for screenshots. Been there. That’s why I always keep a high-speed microSD card loaded up and ready to go. Undoubtedly, a microSD card is one of the most important Steam Deck accessories you can pick up during big sale events like this.
The Witcher 4 may have entered its “most intensive” production phase but it won’t be gracing your whirring machinery any time in the next year or two. During a financial call for people in suits with lots of money, the developer said they were hoping to give shareholders value for money, “even though we do not plan to release The Witcher 4 by the end of 2026.” Basically confirming what you probably could’ve guessed anyway: there’s no plan to bring the RPG sequel out before 2027.
Soberly breaking down the plot, mechanics and presentation of InCARceration would be like trying to cook a meal, win a spelling bee or perform a sneak-attack after being welded inside a car. So I will say only that this is an amusing bizarro take on WarioWare that makes me yearn for other, bizarro takes on WarioWare.
You may find it cathartic if you’ve had any dealings with obtuse legal systems lately. A Kafkar sim, perhaps. Yeah, that’ll do. Play it in a browser here. If you’ve already tried it, there was an update this week that (possibly?) adds a new ending and does away with some unintended quantum physics.
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There are two kinds of Steam Deck players. Those who plug in and panic every two hours, and those who carry a power bank and keep playing like gods. I’ve tested a lot of power banks over the past year, and. Some were great, others burnt out far too quickly. The four below are the ones I keep reaching for, are some of the best Steam Deck accessories going, and they’re also currently discounted during the Amazon Spring Sale.
