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The best deals in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale
🏖️ Our top picks for 2024 and 2023 games on sale, plus old favorites on sale up to 95% off.
Frostpunk 2 delayed because its developers want to add features 'you deserve to see in-game on day one, not in a patch added after the release'
News 11 Bit Studios said its survival city builder needs more time "to guarantee the best possible experience at launch."
Yeehaw! 'Red Dead Redemption meets Stardew Valley' in cozy cowboy life sim Cattle Country
News Farm, fish, raise livestock, fall in love (not with the livestock), battle bandits, and carve out a cozy home, home on the range.
This twin-stick shooter is a Desert Strike throwback except your helicopter talks, drinks blood, and defends the world from a lizard-man invasion
News Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is just as badass as it sounds.
The latest friendship-ruining co-op game on Steam is a punishing platformer where you're chained to your pals, and it's about to crack 100,000 concurrent players
News Chained Together requires a lot of coordination, and even more forgiveness.
Farming Simulator 25 announced, with a collector's edition that includes a 'USB ignition lock' that lets you turn a real key to start your virtual tractors
news On the one hand that's supremely silly, but on the other hand I 100% want it.
'Maybe this new Stardew Valley-like game is pretty good' I said to myself after blearily noticing I'd played it until 2 in the morning
charm farm Farming life sim Everafter Falls sunk its cozy hooks into me pretty quickly.
In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'
News Funcom explains the nuts and bolts of how its MMO works.
The two most-played games on Steam today are Counter-Strike 2 and this game where you click a banana
news The idle clicker is also poised to break Baldur's Gate 3's record for concurrent players.
Manor Lords players overwhelmingly vote against changing historically accurate yet NSFW character name
news The medieval city builder's community fiercely protects its finest meme.
Dying in Spelunky sometimes makes me mad, but it always just makes me laugh in comically brutal roguelike Lucky Tower Ultimate
News The classic Flash roguelike series Lucky Tower is being reborn on Steam, and you can play the demo for free.
Skyrim player killing Nazeem every single day until The Elder Scrolls 6 is released has now done it 1,000 times, celebrates with a Nazeem-only battle royale
News Spoiler alert: One Nazeem defeats all the other Nazeems and is then promptly killed anyway.
Let's pour one out for these no-shows we were desperate to see during Summer Game Fest
Maybe next time Maybe in the next life.
Our 13 favorite games from the 2024 summer gaming showcases
best in show After seeing what felt like hundreds of games, we've picked a few that really stood out.
A new Anno city builder is coming in 2025, this time set in Ancient Rome
News Anno 117: Pax Romana was announced at Ubisoft Forward, targeted for 2025.
There are so many great city builder demos on Steam right now, you can play 3 new ones every single day this week
Mayors Needed Steam Next Fest gives us our best chance ever to check out all the city builders headed our way.
Let's count all the ways I'm gonna die horribly in the new Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl trailer
news Controller, check. Pseudogiant, definitely. Dogs? Absolutely. Anomalies, bandits, and the list goes on.
Dread, tension, and tough choices abound in stealthy zombie survival game Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
PCGS The city has fallen to the zombie horde. Can you escape before it's too late?
You're not just solving word puzzles in Lok Digital, you're advancing civilization for these adorable inky little worm dudes
PCGS Learn a new language in a puzzle game that lets you figure out the rules for yourself.
The demo is out now for The Crush House, the 'thirst-person shooter' where you create a reality show to please divorced dads, drama queens, and 'butt guys'
PCGS You call the shots in this '90s-inspired dating show sim from the creators of Reigns.
I'm not sure if the creatures you collect in first-person farming sim Among The Wild are cute or disturbing, but I'm already in love with them
PCGS Part farming game, creature-collector, and adventure, it's a weird world with weirder critters.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming in November, and it's bringing blimps, balloons, and somehow even deer photography with it
News There's more to do than just fly around the simulated world this time. Much more.
Starfield's Shattered Space DLC is finally going to shed light on the RPG's most interesting faction
News Get in deep with space cult House Va’ruun.
