Dark, Darker, and MORE!

Dark, Darker, and MORE!

Author: Andrew Mayfield February 17, 2023 Duration: 59:55

This week, we've played a whole bunch of demos from Steams Next Fest including Dark and Darker!



Voidtrain - Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people. - HypeTrain Digital (Steam, 2023)

 

Dark and Darker - An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters. - IRONMACE (Steam, Coming Soon)

 

Boundary - Boundary is a multiplayer tactical space-based shooter game, engaging in fierce team vs team zero gravity firefights and executing low-gravity operations on orbiting space installations against other enemy astroperators and other entities. - Studio Surgical Scalpels (Steam, 2023)

 

Darkest Dungeon 2 - Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within… - Red Hook Studios (Steam, May 8 2023)

 

Phantom Brigade - Phantom Brigade is a hybrid turn-based & real-time tactical RPG with an innovative timeline-based command system. See the future, predict enemy actions, and plot your counterattack on the timeline! Outnumbered and out-gunned, lead the Brigade's campaign to retake their war-torn homeland. Brace Yourself Games (Steam, February 28 2023)


Xenonauts 2 - Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe. - Goldhawk Interactive (Steam, 2023)


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