Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 9, 2024)

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 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 understandably…

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Witcher 3 modders datamine a quest where Geralt would have teleported to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077: ‘Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying.’

As part of the insanely ambitious What Lies Unseen datamined development history of The Witcher 3, the project’s creators made an amusing discovery: A script for an early version of the quest “Through Time and Space” where Geralt and Avallac’h teleport to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077. Through Time and Space is one of my…

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Witcher 3 modders just upended everything we know about how it was made with a 584-page breakdown of an early prototype that had a 150-hour main quest, all thanks to a database ‘containing almost every single line of text’ from its development

Witcher 3 modders Moonknight, Ferroxius, Crygreg, and Glassfish (who contributed to the Brothers in Arms cut content restoration mod) have released the first volume of What Lies Unseen, a planned series chronicling the development history and evolution of The Witcher 3. RPG YouTuber xLetalis has put out a three-hour video going over the first volume,…

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If you have fond memories of Warhammer battle reports from antique issues of White Dwarf, here’s a turn-based wargame that’s basically just those

If names like “The Battle of Grimdal’s Tomb” or “The Battle of Red Axe Pass” resonate with you like “Crécy” would to a medieval English longbowman, then the wilfully low-fi graphics of SOVL: Fantasy Warfare are a Proustian rush waiting to happen. Units are represented by color-coded rectangles, with line art for artillery, monsters, and…

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You’ll be able start ‘almost every, if not every’ quest in Obsidian’s Avowed in multiple ways, so you can feel safe wandering around doing whatever

The devs behind Obsidian’s upcoming first-person RPG Avowed continue to drive home their commitment to letting you experience the world at your own pace and in the order you pick. Designer Berto Ritger recently told GamesRadar that the game’s quests can be started in multiple ways, so even if you march off in the opposite…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, December 8

Give your daily Wordle an instant boost with our general tips, designed to help you squeeze as much use as possible out of every single letter on the board. Need something more? Then you’re in the right place. Keep it simple and click straight through to today’s answer if you like, or spend some time…

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