The only potential threat for me this week. It’s been a while since I played one of these, so maybe it’s time.
No wallet threats this week that I can see. My own time is under threat from the releases over the last couple of weeks, so I’m glad the deluge has stopped for now.
Monday, Aug. 2
- Grime | PC
Tuesday, Aug. 3
- In Sound Mind | PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC
- Castle of Pixel Skulls DX | PS4
- Hunter’s Arena: Legends | PS4, PS5
- Dragon Star Varnir | Switch
- Here Comes Niko! | PC
- Memory Lane 2 | Switch
Wednesday, Aug. 4
- Stellar Warfare | PC
- Toodee and Topdee | PC
- Enter Digiton: Heart of Corruption | Switch
Thursday, Aug. 5
- The Falconeer | PS5, PS4, Switch
- Dodgeball Academia | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles | Xbox Series X/ S
- Strategic Mind: The Pacific | PS4
- Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg | PS4
- Starmancer | PC, Mac
- Haven Park | PC, Mac
- Death Trash | PC, Mac
- A Monster’s Expedition | Switch
- 123 Dots | Switch
- Star Hunter DX | Switch
- Dating Life: Miley X Emily | Switch
- Doomsday Vault | Switch
- Dreamscaper | Switch
- I.F.O | Switch
- PICROSS S GENESIS & Master System Edition | Switch
Friday, Aug. 6
- Goroons | Xbox One
- Bless Unleashed | PC
- Lifeslide | PC
- Castle of Pixel Skulls | Switch
- Race Track Driver | Switch
- The Last Survey | Switch
- Badland: Game of the Year Edition | Switch
- Zengeon | Switch
- Bone Marrow | Switch
Saturday, Aug. 7
- 3D ADVANTIME | Switch
What is this?! Red alert!
I believe an AoE3 expansion comes out on the 2nd.
I preordered Starmancer awhile ago.
Conquest of Elysium 5 is supposedly releasing this month. There’s no exact date on Steam other than ‘August’, but the devs did say ‘hopefully be released in the beginning of August’.
So it is possibly a threat this week! :)
Real time combat? My wallet is probably forever safe from that one.
Picross with Sega characters, basically. Given that the actual “pictures” are almost irrelevant to Picross, it doesn’t do much for me as a concept, but more Picross is always good.
I still need to buy the DE editions for both games. I played Age of Empires 2 through gamepass a while back.
I guess I’m just waiting on a Bundle Sale of some sort.
My wallet is always safe from EA games.
Oh twin stick shooter? That’s different. When you say real time combat in an RPG, I automatically envision something horrible like Baldur’s Gate or Pillars of Eternity. A more action oriented combat sounds good. I’ll have to keep my eye on “Death Trash”.
2D Metroidvania Souls-like Platformer, according to Steam tags? Probably not my genre, since Salt and Sanctuary and Hollow Knight get described that way. (On the other hand I do love semi-tough platformers like Ori and recent Raymans, but this one seems to have more emphasis on combat, I think).
Death Trash, Grime and Starmancer are threats. Both look great!
There’s some more games coming to Summer Spotlight sale on Xbox that I’m intrigued by. But I’m not sure if they’re going to be great. Lawn Mowing Simulator could be cool, for instance. Hades comes to Game Pass, but that’s not a wallet threat! :)
Monday, August 9
- I Am Dead | PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One
- City of Gangsters | PC
Tuesday, August 10
- Ever Forward | PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One
- Button City | PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC
- Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle | Switch
- Super Hiking League DX | PS4, Xbox One, Switch
- Godfall | PS4
- Untitled Darkness | Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
- Black Book | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Action Arcade Wrestling | PS4, Xbox One
- Lawn Mowing Simulator | Xbox Series X/S, PC
- Mech Armada | PC
- Carrier Command 2 | PC, Mac
- Patron | PC
- Atrio: The Dark Wild | PC
Wednesday, August 11
- Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 | PC
- Dwarrows | PS4, Xbox One
- Crimson Spires | Switch
- Seed of Life | PC
- Glitchpunk | PC
Thursday, August 12
- The Plane Effect | PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC
- Faraday Protocol | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Foreclosed | PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Tetragon | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Art of Rally | Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch
- Non- The First Warp | PC, Mac
- Fire Tonight | Switch, PC, Mac
- The Amazing American Circus | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Naraka: Bladepoint | PC
- Love Esquire | Switch
- Poker Champion: Texas Hold’Em | Switch
- Fhtagn! - Tales of Creeping Madness | Switch
- Dinosaur Fossil Puzzle | Switch
- One Deck Dungeon | Switch
- Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins | Switch
Friday, August 13
- Whiskey Mafia: Frank’s Story | Xbox One, Switch
- Hades | PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One
- Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four | Xbox One, Switch
- PAW Patrol The Movie: Adventure City Calls | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
- Fort Triumph | PS4, Xbox One, Switch
- WitchSpring3 Re:Fine - The Story of Eirudy | Switch
- Scrap Garden | Switch
- Sudoku Classic | Switch
- .cat Milk | Switch
- Barry The Bunny | Switch
- Living Together With Fox Demon | PC
Saturday, August 14
- Chasing Tails - A Promise in the Snow- | PC, Mac
A friend recommended this. I’m not a fan of the setting and all, but I’ll keep an eye on it.
This is a super threat, though.
I misread this as Cat Mechanic Simulator 2021 and was rather intrigued for a moment.
I enjoyed the previous Car Mechanic Simulator, and the very similar PC Building Simulator, for a while, but they get pretty repetitive quite quickly once you master each type of mission. If they’ve done something more substantial with the career in this one I might give it a shot when it goes on sale. This doesn’t sound very promising though:
It was for me too. Unfortunately it looks like the VR version is getting slammed in the Steam reviews for having buggy bare-bones implementation and bad controls. :(
guilty
Although I did get it on Fanatical with a coupon I was hoarding, so it was more $10 than $30.
I wouldn’t pay their asking price of $25, though. There are no keybindings, they think a throttle is an off/on switch, and you have to set your blade so low that if you look sideways you gouge holes in the ground.
Also I’m pretty sure the mowers use wooden blades and not metal ones, because I have to repair them every time I finish an outing.
Also, there is no way to exit the game except to Alt+F4 while in Career mode.
Also, they very clearly stated today on the Steam forums that they made it for controllers, which means on the XBX/S you’re probably fine, but on Steam using the mouse and keyboard is a joke. Using the XB1 controller is also a joke, so maybe if you have a wheel?
Also also, someone needs to just combine all of these, so that I Euro Truck Simulator 2 my vehicles to my Farming Simulator 19 (21 soon) farm, plow everyhing, seed everything, then Lawn Mowing Simulator around my farmhouse and when I get done, move the mower and the vehicles over to my Power Wash Simulator garage and then pack them back up on the truck so I can live the damn simulator life, okay? Come on.