This week on Steam has a bit ready for every taste: A dark action role-playing game lets you compete against nightmarish creatures, but so not enough-in addition to these big releases, numerous other exciting new releases are waiting for you. You can find out what these are every Monday in our great overview of the most important releases of the week.
Highlight der Woche: Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Genre: Action role-playing game |developer: Primal Game Studio |Release: 17. April 2025 (Steam)
InSlip into the role of an Inquisitor in a world threatened by the sinking. Cracks in the tissue of reality open portals through which cruel monsters penetrate the Kingdom of Faelduum. Your job is to push back this darkness - but a moment of doubt about your order turns your fate upside down and leads you to a dangerous path full of heresia and secrets. The game combines classic metroid vania exploration with role-playing action in a dark fantasy setting.
Before your adventure begins, you choosesix classn Your hero: Whether stealed swords, mighty magicians or a mixture of both, Mandragora lets you define your battle style yourself. In the course of the40-hour campaignCrafts hundreds of weapons, armor and potions to offer the ever more powerful nightmare creatures. An extensive talent system also enables you to specialize your character with new skills.
Mandragora attaches particular importance to his story:No wonder - with, one of the authors of the cult RPG, puts a top author behind it. Restricted quests, moral decisions and fully set to music (in English) in a world that should have new secrets on every corner await you. According to the developers, an epic story about fanaticism, betrayal and dark magic awaits you.
More exciting releases of the week
Monday, April 14th
- Erenshor (Early Access): A single player role-playing game that simulates a complete MMORPG. You roam alone through an open fantasy world, meet hundreds of simulated
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(NPCS), does quests as in old Everquest times and experiences Raid feeling without real online obligation. - Night is Coming (Early Access): Building game meets Tower Defense and Slavic mythology. You build a small village in the Carpathians and have to provide and defend your settlers. But as soon as the night breaks, merciless creatures from the darkness attack.
- Journalist: Round tactics await you with retro charm in the style of Advance Wars. Choose one of several commanders, put together your pixelated army of tanks, infantry & Co. and covers colorful cards in a campaign and in multiplayer with strategic battles.
- Stygian: Outer Gods (Early Access): A survival horror adventure from a first person perspective that conjures up the cosmic horror of HP Lovecrafts. In the forgotten port city of Kingsport you will explore your dilapidated streets, old mansions and deep mine shafts - always on the hat off to insane cultists and grotesque monsters.
Tuesday, April 15th
- Lushfoil Photography Sim: In this relaxed simulator you grab the camera and travel photo -realistic landscapes around the world. You are looking for the most beautiful motifs without any opponents or time pressure - be it a foggy forest in Japan, a lonely hut in the Alps or a tropical island. Thanks to authentic camera settings, you should feel like a real photographer here who patiently waits for the perfect light.
- Chains of Freedom: Dark tactics RPG action in a fictional, post-apocalyptic version of Eastern Europe. As the leader of an elite military unit, you struggle against an authoritarian regime and against mutated creatures that have arisen from secret experiments. Find cover, attack flanks, use special skills: XCOM sends greetings here!
Wednesday, April 16
- Portal Fantasy: A role -playing game in which you can catch cute creatures à la Pokémon, train and use in round -based fights. As a prospective hero, you explore a colorful fantasy world full of mysterious portals. New regions are waiting behind each portal, filled with unique monsters (called porbles), which you can add to your collection. In addition to collective fever, an extensive story with many side quests promises enough material for dozens of hours.
- Haunted House Renovator: Here you renovate dilapidated houses that have it all. You have to free every room from dirt, damage and ... ghosts! At first you tear off old wallpaper, replace rotten planks and re -enact the villa, but suddenly the porcelain flies around your ears by invisible hand. With holy water, spectral sucker and Co. you sell the uninvited guests.
Thursday, April 17th
- Neighbors: Suburban Warfare (Early Access): In this weird multiplayer game, the neighborhood dispute escalates. Two teams from four bizarre suburban residents compete against each other: while their own property defends their own property with crazy traps, barricades and improvised guns, at the same time she tries to put the house of the opposing neighbors in rubble and ashes.
- Bionic Bay: A sci-fi-2D platform with a special twist: You have an innovative teleportation mechanics with which you can exchange the position of certain objects-or even your own-at the level. In this way, her crunchy puzzle loosens and overcomes obstacles that would be indomitable in conventional jumps.
- Wizdom Academy (Early Access): Have you ever wondered how it would be to lead your own school for witchcraft and magic? In this charming mix of construction and management game you can do exactly that. You build up your magic boarding school from scratch, set up dormitories and classrooms and hire magical teaching staff. Then you take care of training your students into real magicians: from the timetable to training duels to leisure activities.
- Pax Augusta: In this authentic urban building simulation, you slip into the role of a Roman governor and build along the borders of the empire -flourishing metropolises. You not only have to build residential buildings, thermal baths and forums, but also meet the needs of your citizens, drive trade and build monumental buildings. Natural disasters, political intrigues and the moods of the emperor put your skills to the test.
- White Knuckle (Early Access): This Roguelike climbing game sends you to dizzying heights. You have to climb up a gigantic, dark tower as quickly as possible - jumps over abysses, powerful climbing inlays and daring maneuvers on steep walls are on the agenda. Every misstep can mean death, because the abyss yawn among you. The horror atmosphere does the rest: the higher you get, the more surreal and scary the surroundings become. Thanks to randomly arranged climbing routes, no run is the same.
Friday, April 18th
- LUNAR Remastered Collection: Two JRPG legends celebrate their comeback, for the first time on the PC. The Lunar Remastered Collection contains the role-playing classic Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue from the 90s in a newly polished form. Round -based fights, sprawling dialogues and soulful soundtracks included - typical JRPGs from the golden era. The charming 2D anime look is preserved graphically, but it shines in higher resolution and with some quality-of-life improvements. Pure nostalgia for genre fans:
- Lost Skies (Early Access): In this co-op survival game you explore a spacious world from floating islands alone or with up to five friends. Your self -made airship not only serves as a means of transportation, but also as a mobile basis and weapon against gigantic creatures that roam the sky.
Now we are excited: Which title will end up on the wish list this week or maybe directly in your library? Do you have a favorite-be it the dark story role-playing game, the authentic Roman building game or one of the other smaller insider tips? Please let us know in the comments!
