Dominic Tarason

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

I know everyone gushing over Phantom Blade Zero, but this here is my most wanted of the week.

I've been following this one since it was a Doom mod using kit-bashed sprites from Blood. It has had a wild, bumpy time in development (including one of the lead devs passing away), but from what I've played, it somehow still stuck the landing. A horror FPS RPG that feels equally empowering and not

Was JUST about to crawl into bed, but... yeah, Divine Frequency is out now. SO going to be playing that after work tomorrow.

Okay, dang, I need a (human-made) translation patch for Vampir Kyuutketsuki Densetsu. Never heard of it until now, but it's a real-time PS1 social strategy game about two vampires trying to outmaneuver each other and convert a town to follow them, while undermining each other. Vampire Spy vs Spy.

I'm genuinely shocked that this game is free. It's polished, beefy, seems well designed, and the demo did relatively well on Steam. Sign of the times? Overwhelming competition? Either way, grab it. It's kinda like Darkest Dungeon/Griftlands with Borderlands' setting and sense of humor.

DEADLOCK ALL RATS 2026!!!!

Huge reccomendation for this, even in early access. It's like a slicker, faster low-fi STALKER with a fun setting where mankind has largely been usurped by lizard people and fae magic is returning to the world on top of all the super-science reality-warping weirdnes.

If they manage to cram in every feature that the store page promises, this free community-made remaster could be better than 90% of official, professional attempts. Fingers crossed for both this project and Arkane. They're going through it right now.

I'm genuinely shocked that this game is free. It's polished, beefy, seems well designed, and the demo did relatively well on Steam. Sign of the times? Overwhelming competition? Either way, grab it. It's kinda like Darkest Dungeon/Griftlands with Borderlands' setting and sense of humor.

Check out Ecstatica! A one-of-a-kind survival horror game. And yes, there is a sequel which was also re-released. The 'one of a kind' statement still stands. You should probably only play the first game.

Live the Life of Baba Yaga's Apprentice in Witchy Life-Sim Sandbox Reka

Huh... The PR agency that yelled at me once for not delivering a full review within a week is now trying a new approach. 'We've got four games here that you can preview, and we'll give you a key for ONLY ONE of them'. I'm not sure who making the press jump through arbitrary hoops helps.

A surprising number of people who loved Betrayal At Club Low still haven't played the sequel. More weird dice, more pizza, more Off-Peak City. Lots more. Even before Chapter 3, the first couple segments were several times the length of Betrayal.

There is something you can do in the demo for 500 FINGER FILLET that will have terrible consequences in the full game. Welcome to Difficulty -1.

If they manage to cram in every feature that the store page promises, this free community-made remaster could be better than 90% of official, professional attempts. Fingers crossed for both this project and Arkane. They're going through it right now.

One of the last major issues with STALKER 2 is hammered out, and they've added a fan-favourite feature (from many a mod) - fast-travel via paying wandering NPC squad leaders to escort you. And there's still another expansion and online multiplayer coming in 2027. A huge game that keeps on growing.

Ooh, big STALKER 2 patch, addressing the main complaint currently (enemies spawn/despawn well within sniper/binocular range) as well as a ton of other bugfixes. And there's still a second expansion and online multiplayer to come.

This has been teased and talked about for quite some time. Being done with Ubisoft and Arkane's full blessings. Huge community collaboration project. Not sure if this version will include the new levels from the Xbox release, but if not, mods should be able to add those.

store.steampowered.com/app/5016100/...

Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

YES! Such a good game - the main issue with it was the hardware and control response. Body Harvest next please.

I'll have to give this another shot! A lot of rough edges at launch but nothing that couldn't be patched.

This week is just a firehose of great games. I've played a couple other releases early and it's just great stuff all round. Plus some older stuff getting a resurgence. Look Outside going multiplatform with another slab of new content.

Whew, very relieved for Brazil. And hoping that they IMMEDIATELY press charges against the assholes that interfered with the election.

Dang, they've been patching the hell out of Mortal Shell 2. So many big updates, and the halloween one adds another 15(!) dungeons.

Once again I'm telling people to play Corru.Observer - one of the coolest things ever made to be played in a browser. It is a sprawling, genre-hopping sci-fi mystery with multiple albums of soundtrack now. Excellently written, both in terms of loveable characters and speculative hard sci-fi stuff.

Oh, wow, just tried the demo for Echoes Of Nothing. It's a hard sci-fi fusion of Descent and Souls-like, but that's still pretty reductive. This plays like nothing else. You start out as a small space pod, salvaging parts from wrecks and transferring into intact chassis, working up the food chain.

We want to express our immense gratitude to everyone who backed, shared and supported our modest campaign for SeverLink! Without you, this wouldn't be possible, so thank you for your interest in our passion project 💚 Stay tuned for the further updates!

now THIS is a fucking light gun game protagonist store.steampowered.com/app/4353960/...

Well, that wasn't on my 2026 bingo card. I'll take it, though.