Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 26, 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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‘They’re very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail’: Former Dragon Age writer calls out ‘anti-fans’ who bet on games failing before launch

Former BioWare writer David Gaider, who worked on the likes of Baldur’s Gate 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the first three Dragon Age games (not including Veilguard), recently spoke out about an issue he dubbed “anti-fans” in an interview with GamesRadar. We’ve seen it happen time and again: A subset of…

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A Roblox farming game made by a teenager ‘in like three days’ had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day

All signs point to the biggest PC game of 2025 by number of players being Grow a Garden, a Roblox game launched by a teenage developer which just hit a peak player count of nearly 9 million⁠—that is to say, all logged in and actively playing the game at once. That’s almost three times more…

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Even with The Elder Scrolls 6 just a twinkle in Todd Howard’s eye, it’s boom times for Elder Scrolls fans: The project to remake Morrowind in Skyrim just put out a 20-minute trailer and progress update

The team behind Skywind, the massive project to remake/reimagine The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, has just unveiled 20 minutes of new gameplay on YouTube, as well as a development progress update. The video shows off the Imperial Legion quest, Rescue Joncis Dalomax, as well as how the west-central, Bitter…

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After its pre-rendered trailer caused a stir last year, this Dark Messiah-inspired RPG now has a gameplay teaser—but the internet is debating if it’s real or not

As the self-appointed Fox Mulder of games about kicking goblins down flights of stairs, I want to believe that fantasy hack ‘n’ slash Alkahest can revive the underappreciated swashbuckling brilliance of Dark Messiah: Might and Magic. The game debuted last year with a flashy announcement trailer that really sold me on the concept. But as…

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Helldivers 2 player embraces their inner Lisan al-Gaib, discovering a way to surf on the back of the game’s giant floating Leviathans: ‘I spent longer than I would like to admit setting this up’

Helldivers 2‘s most recent update has put Super Earth in big trouble. A massive Illuminate invasion scythed straight through the outer planets belonging to humanity, striking right at the Heart of Democracy. Illuminate thralls stalk the streets while vast floating Leviathan creatures bombard brave Helldivers from below. In these dark times, Super Earth looks for…

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Double Fine dev embarks on a quest to discover Full Throttle’s true release date: ‘Perhaps the best 30th birthday present I could give Full Throttle was a real birthday’

LucasArts adventure gaming classic Full Throttle recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Exactly how recently, you ask? Well, that’s the question. During birthday preparations for Tim Schafer’s beloved motorcycle odyssey, Schafer’s studio Double Fine Productions realised it didn’t know the precise date of Full Throttle’s initial release. Consequently, Double Fine’s Customer Support Specialist and amateur sleuth…

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