Round 2 of the Steam Next Fest, 2024! Hollywood Animal, ASKA, Beyond These Stars, and Creatures of Ava. This time, it's mostly hits, a trend I hope is on the upswing.
Day one of the Steam Next Fest provided me with some definite winners and some definite losers. Bloomtown: A Different Story, REKA, Aloft, and Fantastic Haven.
WoW offers the exact amount of effort I seem to want to put into an activity when I get bored, and as someone who considers the game an acquaintance and not really a friend, I'm OK with this.
I can't even remember all of the features in 3.23, so here's a few I've personally encountered, as well as a few thoughts on one of the most controversial updates to the game, master modes.
A stealth survivalbox beta approaches! This "modern supernatural" sandbox could be a contender someday, but it cleaves too close to superior games in similar genres to not illicit disappointment at this stage.
Idle games are usually TOO idle for me to remember to check in on them, but the new AFK Journey adds a real CRPG on top of the AFK part, making for a suitably engaging idle experience.
Lightyear Frontier was topping my Steam Next Fest wish-list, and it's now available in EA. If you like faming sims, this might appeal to you, but if you are looking to enact violence on alien species, maybe Helldivers 2 is more your…