Marked For Mayhem is a 4-player dungeon crawler that wants you to try to win as a team while also beating all your teammates as a player—good luck

Heads up, hotshot: you are being dispatched to a hostile alien planet. You will have to overcome life-or-death challenges that test your wits, physicality, and raw luck. You may die. You will almost certainly be hurt. Also, the whole thing is being televised. How many friends would you like to take with you? If you…

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Young Suns is an optimistic life sim for an unoptimistic time coming in November, and I’m already forming intense opinions about its cast of NPCs

If you had to move to another planet in our solar system, which would you pick? Me, I’d go Neptune. I’ve always thought it’s underrated, as our neighbours go, and it’s a particularly pleasing shade of blue. I would die immediately due to cold and pressure, which I guess is a problem. I guess that…

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Escape From Playtime is a co-op survival horror where you play itsy-bitsy toy animals, and its playtest is taking signups now

There is, you must admit, something a bit disconcerting about children’s toys. The sightless eyes, the static expressions—it all combines into a hollow unpersonhood that triggers some ancient, primeval fear in the low regions of your brain. Something that also doesn’t help: the unslakeable lust for murder. Alright, that last part maybe does not apply…

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