Wuchang: Fallen Feathers gets another patch to improve performance, though the fixes appear to be nothing more than forcing on upscaling, even when it’s supposed to be off

New soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feather has had the most auspicious of launches. Over on Steam, it currently enjoys a ‘mostly negative’ rating from over 25,000 reviews, and our Tyler reckons that while it ‘brings some fun ideas to boss fights’, everything else is a ‘pale imitation of much better games’. Opinions are likely to take…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 uses a plugin called KawaiiPhysics, a free engine built to ‘cutely animate things’ that’s used in a ton of popular games from gachas to soulslikes

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is many things—heartwrenching, impressive, a love-letter to the JRPG genre, and, uh, (checking my notes) kawaii, apparently. In case you aren’t uncomfortably familiar with anime—or just don’t know Japanese—’kawaii’ means ‘cute’. That’s per the creator of Kawaii Physics, Kazuya Okada (Okazu) who noticed that, during a Sandfall Interactive lecture, Clair Obscur:…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 28, 2025)

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…

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