This week the role-playing highlight kidnaps youIn bizarre dream worlds. But also horror fans, structure strategists and beat'em -up veterans get fresh food. As always, we give you the overview: Which Steam releases await you?
Highlight of the week: Clair obscur
Genre:Role play |Developer:Sandfall Interactive |Release:24. April 2025 (Steam)
A curse keeps the world in suspense: Every year the mysterious paintspainter
A number of a monolith - and all people who reach this age disappear without a trace. The expedition 33 leads you to you, a colorful group of idealists, soldiers and eccentric, who wants to put the craft once and for all of the artist.
The trip leads you from Paris Belle-Époque-Boulevards to surreal cloud palaces to decayed industrial complexes. Each place works due to the picturesque graphic style, as if it had originated from an oil painting.
Clair Obscur is a classic, turn -based JRPG on paper, but it becomes much more active in the fight: while you choose attacks, you canParieren, dodge or target weaknesses in real time, avoid it or use free AIM, to trigger combo chains. If the timing succeeds, it fills a momentum bar that unlocks particularly strong skills. If you forgive it, it is hailing.
Between the fights you are working at your party: Equipment, ink sets (magical dyes that miss the weapons of elementary effects) and branched talent trees allow extremely different builds.
Since each figure also has its own synergy bonuses with certain teammates, it is worth getting to know the characters better in side quests. You not only switch on dialogues, but also new duo attacks that can be fed up with entire boss mechanics.
More exciting Steam releases of the week
Monday, April 21st
- Rise of Rebellion: A single player soulslike-RPG that promises tough fights. In a dark fantasy world you compete against god-like bosses that drive your hands in your hands. Timing, evasive rollers and the learning of attack patterns are essential here.
Tuesday, April 22nd
- Escape The Mad Empire (Early Access): Do you fancy a crunchy dungeon crawler with retro charm? In this party role-playing game you put together a hero group and fight for a break through procedural dungeons in real time. In addition to tactical battles, it is important to build a basis and manage the tight resources wisely.
- Post Trauma: Survival horror of the old school, heavily inspired by Silent Hill & Co. You play a subway security man who can be found in a disturbing nightmare world. Expects fixed camera perspectives, uncanny background noise and crispy puzzles.
- Darkwater (Early Access): Even more horror, this time in the deep sea! This co-op title (1 to 4 players) lets you control a submarine enclosed in ice on a foreign planet. In extraction manner you have to recover resources and then withdraw alive-but of course in the dark water lurking gruesome creatures and rival NPC crews.
- Outworld Station (Early Access): Replenishment for construction strategists! Here you build up a gigantic space station and expand your industrial empire over several planets. The game combines Automation à la Factorio with the complexity of an economic simulation: you build modules, promote resources, produced and sell them profitably to grow even further. Everything in a chic sci-fi look and even playable with friends in the co-op.
Wednesday, April 23rd
- Viking Frontiers: A Viking survival simulation from a first person perspective. Stranded on an unknown coast, you have to build your village from scratch, become Jarl of your own settlement and guide your people through rough times. You chase wild, collect wood, build long houses and defy hunger and cold. The game combines elements of survival, construction and role play. In short: Valheim meets Rimworld.
- Beholder: Conductor: The dystopian Beholder series goes into the next round, this time on rails. As a train worker in a totalitarian state, the passengers of a train monitor her. Your tasks: Check tickets, search for luggage, expose the regime gegen and make unpleasant decisions.
- Sunder people: This co-op tactic RPG wants to bring the feeling of a board game evening back. Up to four players move together to a fantasy battle-and do not control their heroes with the mouse, but with the smartphone as a controller. In Sundfolk, a magical academy defends her against monster hordes for 100 days. Training is carried out during the day, the enemies are on in the evening, turn -based on a grid as in XCOM.
Thursday, April 24th
- DARKEST DAYS: In this post-apocalyptic zombie online world, she builds a refuge together with other survivors, while outside the undead marodes. During the day you explore a dark, extensive city, collect equipment and improve your shelter, at night there are large-scale zombie battles.
- FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves: Attention a whipping game veterans: Terry Bogard and Co. are back! After more than 20 years, the legendary Fatal Fury series will receive a new part. City of the Wolves brings old cult characters and new fighters together. With a chic 2.5D graphic and an innovative REV system for special actions, SNK wants to build on its glorious neo-geo times.
- The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy: Tactic role-playing game meets Visual Novel. You experience 100 in-game days at a military academy, build relationships with classmates and strengthen your skills in training and discussions. But when the siren howls, the game changes to round-based grid fights against monstrous intruders in which you have to defend your academy.
- Dolls Nest: A crazy action adventure in which mecha girls play the leading role. You control an adaptable android fighter through a gigantic factory world that is like a post-apocalyptic labyrinth. Not only are numerous nasty robot opponents await there, but also one or the other philosophical question: What does humanity mean in a world dominated by machines?
- Monster Prom 4: Monster Con: The fourth part of the popular comedy-dating SIM returns to the roots: competitive multiplayer for up to 4 players, hand-drawn cartoon monsters and tons of black humor. This time the plot takes place on the nerdige Monster Con.
- Amerzone – The Explorer’s Legacy: An adventure classic from 1999 celebrates his comeback. Amerzone from the late comic artist Benoît Sala (Creator of Syberia) was overhauled for the new edition. As a young journalist, she travels to a mysterious jungle country to bring back the last egg of the white bird - and reveals the dark past of the paradise suppressed by a dictator.
Friday, April 25th
- Starless Abyss: Cosmic horror meets the top bubilder roguelike. In Starless Abyss, Kryoschlaf awakens her as a so-called proxima with only one mission: destroys ancient Lovecraft gods who threaten the universe. To do this, you put together a card deck and contest round-based battles in the style of Slay the Spire, but in a dark sci-fi environment.
As you can see: this week is provided for diversity. From the potential role-playing highlight clair obscur to the beating game comeback Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves to the adventure remake of Amerzone, pretty much every genre niche is covered-and these are just three of the highlights.
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