This week, all kinds of new releases on Steam await you again-from dark history work to atmospheric sci-fi psychothrillers to ambitious life simulation. As always, we provide you with an overview of the most important Steam releases of the week.
Highlight of the week: Inzoi
Genre: Simulation of life |developer: Inzoi Studio |Release: 27. März (Steam/Early Access)
Have you always wondered what the Sims would look like in a modern robe and with a real open world city?Trying exactly: A huge city is simulated simultaneously, and each of your characters - the so -called zois - pursues their own needs and daily routines.
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And can build your zois houses, assign professions, let relationships enter into relationships and watch how their stories take their course - or control every action itself.
Thanks to Unreal Engine 5, Inzoi scores with astonishingly realistic graphic and an extensive character and city editor that now makes the Sims look old. However, that startsKorean Sims
First in the early access - many content will only be delivered in the coming months.
Even if Inzoi definitely has a large WOW factor, we still had the playful part in our early access test. You can read what we didn't like so much here:
Monday, March 24th
- Schedule I (Early Access): This Open World Coop game lets you build a criminal empire. As a prospective drug barone, you take care of production, trade and business relationships - to a certain extent Breaking Bad to play along..
- Folklands (Early Access): A relaxed building game that wants to enchant you with procedural island worlds and cute low-poly graphics in the style of the Siedler 3. You found your own small village, collect resources and build up a lively settlement step by step. Perfect to switch off a bit after a stressful day - the game attaches more attention to cosiness than on challenges.
- Drive Beyond Horizons (Early Access): In this mix of open-world exploration and driving simulation, your car dens through extensive landscapes. Drive Beyond Horizons send you to a road trip in unknown territories where you are looking for resources, upgraded your vehicle and revealed secrets. Imagine a mixture of Snowrunner and No Man's Sky.
- Dark Deity 2: Attention fans of round-based tactics RPGs: Dark Deity 2 starts 25 years after the first part and send you again with a group of heroes into strategic battles that are reminiscent of Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics. Developer Sword & Ax promises improved class and skills management- this time there are 45 unique classes to choose from with which you can develop your 20 heroes.
Tuesday, March 25th
- The Darkest Files: According to Through the Darkest of Times, developer Paintbucket Games is again devoted to German Nazi past. In the Darkest files you take on the role of young prosecutors in post-war Germany of the 1950s, which are supposed to bring unpainted Nazi crimes to trial. The gameplay mixes visual-Novel elements with investigative adventure food: You collect evidence, ask witnesses and have to fight for historical justice in court hearings. A serious, story -heavy game.
- Northhold: Tower defense meets urban planning in the far north. Nordhold has you built a Viking settlement and at the same time defend against fiddling enemy waves. During the day you collect resources, reinforce walls and train heroes; At night, hordes attack opponents who ward off her with traps and defense storms.
Wednesday, March 26th
- Game of Thrones: Kingsroad: An action RPG that lets you write your own story in the GOT universe. You explore famous locations from Königsmund to the wall, do quests and fight all sorts of threats such as wildlings and white hikers. The title will be playable across platforms, since it is also developed for mobile devices in parallel.
- Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms (Early Access): The sandbox role-playing game puts you in the china of the three-rich era. You can freely decide which path you are following - will you be a mighty warlord, a cunning consultant at the Kaiserhof or an independent mercenary? The game offers a mixture of RPG and life simulation: you can command and slaughter armies, but also marry, build a house and do diplomacy.
- Grit and Valor – 1949: A real-time tactical game that plays in a diesel-point scenario after the Second World War. The war did not really end in this version of the history in 1945-in 1949 a new axis of evil, but this time you move into battle with a group of fierce mech tanks.
Thursday, March 27th
- Mini Royale (Early Access): Toy Story meets Fortnite? Mini Royale moves the Battle Royale action into the children's room. You slip into the role of small green plastic toy soldiers and provide you with heated battles in a huge doll's house map full of oversized furniture.
- The First Berserker: Khazan: This soulslike-RPG, as an angry berserk, lets you immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world in which her hordes of demons and monsters with the great sword are dubbed. The motto is Hack & Slay in its purest form-combo attacks, finisher moves and a decent level of splatter. The story about an ancient warrior who increases his strength through blood rush is probably more accessible. For this, the game promises liquid animations and brutal battles.
- ENA: Dream BBQ: Here it gets surreal: The game is based on the abstruse of the same name web animation series by Youtuber Joel G. Correspondingly shrill and bizarre, the Adventure, whose first episode is released free of charge. You control the always grinning protagonist Ena through bizarre dream worlds full of floating minds, abstract puzzles and inexplicable events.
- Nuclear power: A survival action game à la Stalker, which started five years after the real nuclear disaster from Windscale in 1957 in northern England. In an open game world full of radiation and destruction, you have to fight for survival after the reactor accident. Explore dilapidated facilities, make new equipment out of scrap and provide you with battles with looters and mutated creatures - either alone or cooperative. Also appears directly in the Game Pass!
- You have limit:Even more action, but in a completely different setting: Ai Limit takes you into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi metropolis called Havenswell. You play a cybernetically upgraded heroine who competes against mechanical monstrosities with swords and high-tech weapons. A typical soulslike awaits you: crisp boss fights, evasive rollers and combos.
- KARMA: The Dark World: A first-person adventure that focuses heavily on psychological thriller elements. In a dark, abandoned world you have to solve puzzles and creep in front of a mysterious killer. The author of this article has played the demo available on Steam and is convinced that a real story secret tip could be waiting for you, which also looks incredibly good and has great English speakers. At least look at the trailer!
Friday, March 28th
- Within the Cosmos: A sci-fi role-playing game from a first person perspective: Your awakened in a distant star system in the 24th century and has to find out what happened to the disputed humanity there. You explore various planets, lead dialogues with NPCs, shoot through enemy aliens and level your character. The title was in development for a long time and should have been released in 2024. Now you can finally get an idea for yourself whether the Starfield competitor, which was developed by only one person, is good.
As you can see, there is something for pretty every taste this week. Inzoi alone is likely to employ Sims fans for many hours despite Early Access, but the other titles also invite you to try it out. And don't worry: If you don't find anything this week, April is already waiting for you with the next big releases.
