Risk of Rain 2 is a co-op roguelike action game that launched on Steam’s Early Access program in late March. Today, developer Hopoo Games announced that they’ve already passed 1 million sales. It took them nearly five years to hit that number with the original Risk of Rain, so this is a big achievement for
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Klei Entertainment has been chipping away at the development of and adding features to Oxygen Not Included for a few years now. The game first hit Steam Early Access in 2017 and has seen a steady stream of updates since. It has even come to other storefronts like the Epic Games Store. After several years
With the battle royale genre getting more and more crowded every month, it’s harder for games within the popular genre to get noticed. Games like Apex Legends succeed but you also see others like The Culling 2 flop. The latest battle royale title to enter the fray is notmycar, a vehicular battle royale game unlike
RuneHeads, the independent developer behind 2017’s Fall of Light, announced today that it will once again be partnering with publisher 1C Entertainment for it next game: Conglomerate 451. It’s an interesting mix of cyberpunk, first person dungeon crawling, and elements you’d expect to see in an XCOM game, so Conglomerate 451 has definitely made its
Switchblade is a crazy beast. Relatively novice studio Lucid Games is attempting to take on the MOBA market at large, which is filled with some of the heaviest hitters in the industry. Even better, they are driving that momentum with a unique take–instead of a top-down League of Legends format, we see vehicle action more akin to Twisted Metal or Rocket League.
Hot off the heels of the Dreams beta, Media Molecule has announced that Dreams will offer a Creator Early Access this Spring. Based off the creations the community made in the beta last month, Media Molecule decided that offering the Dreams creation suite in early access was the best way to allow people to create,
Today is a happy day for developer Failbetter Games, creators of roguelike survival exploration game Sunless Skies. They got to announce that their game will finally exit Early Access and get a full-fledged release on January 31, 2019. But skies haven’t always been so bright for the game. Frequent readers of the site may remember that Failbetter
Need a change of pace from Fortnite? Don’t worry, Crazy Justice, the cel-shaded third-person shooter with a battle royale mode, is headed to early access sometime in the next week or two. According to a Twitter post from developer Black Riddles Studios, an early access version of Crazy Justice will arrive sometime between July 20th
After being revealed last year, the online multiplayer title Darwin Project from developer Scavenger Studio has offered some interesting new ideas in the growingly-popular battle royale genre, and now the studio has announced it is trying to bring in some new players by moving to a free-to-play model. Developer Scavenger Studio announced today during a livestream
This week, German indie developer Crytek has announced that its upcoming title Hunt: Showdown is available now as an Early Access title on Steam for $29.99 along with the system requirements needed to run the game. According to the Steam page, gamers looking to run the game at the lowest settings will need at least Windows
Ever since Overwatch burst onto the scene in early 2016, we have seen a plethora of new stylistic first-person shooters burst onto the scene. Today, indie developer Lunar Rooster announced Sky Noon, a stylized take on a western first-person shooter. The game is currently set to release on Steam via Early Access later this year. The
Around this time last year, Popcannibal, known for titles like Elegy for a Dead World and Girls Like Robots, launched a successful crowdfunding campaign on Fig for Make Sail, a sailing game that boasts realistic physics and deep shipbuilding. Earlier this year I even had the chance to interview Ziba Scott, one of the game’s developers, and learn even
Since its debut on Steam Early Access back in March, the survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has lit up Steam both commercially and in terms of playtime, with the title having eclipsed a new record in terms of its player count. Developer Brendan Greene (aka “PlayerUnknown”) revealed via Twitter that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has reached a new