Interesting on Steam

Ori and the Blind Forest is a new and gorgeous looking puzzle platformer which seems awfully cute to boot. And I’m also kind of partial to it because part of that distributed studio is Israeli. Available March 11th.

Guild of Dungeoneering looks like a procedural dungeon crawling RPG with card game elements. And it also has an interesting art style. Not much is known yet but it is starting to get some press and it could go very right. “Coming soon”.

 Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy looks, from first glance, like some one is trying to take the mantle of Homeworld into the new generation while also integrating some ideas from Sword of the Stars and very high quality graphics. But, coming from an unknown developer and trying to reignite a field that had, virtually, no great successor to Homeworld is risky and I can only hope it plays as great as it looks. Available June 4th.

Sid Meier’s Starships is starting to look like an Orion/SotS-esque top down 2D strategy add-on for Beyond Earth. It might come standalone but at that price, I doubt they put in a lot of effort into breadth. Available March 12th for 15$.

Sky Battles looks like Monster Hunter if it was about dogfighting and giant robots. So far, not a lot to go on but the premise seems cool. Coming this Quarter.

Shellshock Live looks like a colourful spastic reimagining of Scorched Earth. I’ll wait for more info before making a decision but I did love the old Scorched Earth. Coming in April.

This War of Mine – War Child Charity DLC is some added content for This War of Mine. It contains background art made by famous street artists. It’s beautiful. Why? Because it’s just cosmetic, you can choose to pay 1$, 10$ or 20$ for it (all packages are the same, otherwise) and all proceeds go to War Child charity. Available now.

Homefront – The Revolution is the sequel to the original Homefront that changed lots of hands during development and while I haven’t played the first one yet, it is highly regarded and high on my list. And the sequel looks even better. Not availability info yet.


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