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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first demo
14 Oct 2025 at 12:43 pm UTC

Think I saw Chakotee and Janeway in one of the shots near the end of that trailer, so presumably you're playing her, as captain.

One of the most promising deck-building roguelikes ever, Moonsigil Atlas gets a big demo upgrade
13 Oct 2025 at 6:17 pm UTC Likes: 3

Hell yeah - one of the more satisfying demo's I played recently. I'm giving this another go for sure!

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first demo
13 Oct 2025 at 6:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

hear why I am underwhelmed
I get it - it's pretty laid-back music for Star Trek. But for me this is pure nostalgia. Monday night was about ordering our weekly take away - back then it was Pizza Hut, not Dominoes, and 8pm Voyager. Happy days.

Physics-based delivery adventure Truckful gets a first demo
12 Oct 2025 at 8:39 am UTC Likes: 1

I suspect that for an indie dev, the answer will be (or at least should be) "whatever sells the most units". So it really is odd to stick to your original design in the face of such feedback.

Of course, it's probably far from trivial to simply offer an over-the-shoulder camera here. They've probably designed every level/track/road with that static viewpoint in mind, so there's probably heaps of "missing" world that they didn't bother to populate because it's never seen from that angle.

The game has a lot of charm though, so I hope they pull it off.

HELLREAPER from the devs of Fury Unleashed looks incredible
11 Oct 2025 at 2:11 pm UTC Likes: 2

It's like Dead Cells had a baby with Salt & Sanctuary! Absolutely beautiful!

Physics-based delivery adventure Truckful gets a first demo
11 Oct 2025 at 1:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

The camera angle is terrible, I agree, but like Renzatic, I coped and completed the demo. I doubt I'll pick it up unless they offer a better angle though. I found playing it like that tips the scale pretty far from "satisfying", past "mildly frustrating" and all the way towards "infuriating". Especially when you're getting chased, and you have to go flat out!

The loading mechanic was also pretty baffling for a while. I got there in the end, but again - pretty frustrating.

I'm so disappointed because I was really looking forward to this, along with Easy Delivery Co. Now neither game looks like it's going to live up to my weirdly high expectations! I got a couple of hours out of Easy Delivery Co at least.

The demo is really short - 10 to 15 minutes maybe, so it can't hurt to try it out at least.

Cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder and dungeon crawler Into The Grid arrives November 10
10 Oct 2025 at 7:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Finally!! Been looking forward to this one dropping! Only a few more weeks to wait!!

Travel through time in the action-adventure Mai: Child of Ages - now with Linux support
8 Oct 2025 at 9:19 pm UTC

What's going on here?? Bit of Zelda. Bit of Ico. Bit of Beyond Good and Evil. Lovely stuff - I'll stick this on the wishlist for now as I've just got too much to play right now, but I suspect I'll be tucking into this at around Christmas time!

Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program
8 Oct 2025 at 9:05 pm UTC

I played Crysis 2 back in the day and loved every single minute of it. I particularly enjoyed the stealth - the recharge on your suit and later upgrades meant that this was one of the first stealth games I'd experienced where there was hardly any waiting around for patrol movements to align (Dishonored was the next). Very refreshing. "Cloak engaged". Magical.

Then I played Crysis 1 and it wasn't anywhere near as good. Never played 3 - can't remember why, but I suspect it's because it was EA, and it came out in 2013, which was the year I burned by Windows partition and went full Linux. And the EA launcher was dogshit on Linux back then. I mean, it's a launcher, so it's still dogshit today no matter what O/S you're running, but it was particularly bad in 2013 when Steam was literally just out, and Proton wasn't a thing.

I almost never buy on GOG, but a tenner for Crysis 2 might be worthwhile.

(Edit: actually it's only £15 for all three in the bundle - an incredible deal considering Steam has the same bundle priced at a 45% discount... and it's still £41!!)

Tears of Metal is pretty much a co-op Scottish Dynasty Warriors with fun upgrades and a demo worth trying
8 Oct 2025 at 8:53 pm UTC Likes: 2

Great voice acting, metal music and it's Scottish. I'm in.

I mean, obviously. :grin: