Dagger Directive, the new retro/old-school tactical FPS from MicroProse, has a shiny new demo available NOW on STEAM. If you loved classics like the original Delta Force and Ghost Recon, you’re in for a real treat!
Dagger Directive brings back the intense, strategic gunplay and freedom of approach that made those games legendary—blending them with modern mechanics for a fresh yet nostalgic experience.
In Dagger Directive, players take on the role of a member of Task Force Dagger, an elite international special forces unit tasked with saving the world from a variety of threats.
The game offers three distinct campaigns, each set in diverse global environments—from battling eco-terrorists in the icy waters of the Bering Sea to halting international crime in the South Pacific and combating extreme nationalism in the heart of Eastern Europe.
Coatsink are thrilled to announce that their critically claimed VR game Augmented Empire, is making its grand debut on Steam on April 1st. Experience an acclaimed narrative RPG set in a compelling cyberpunk world and featuring an all-star cast that includes Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Orange Is The New Black), Nick Frost (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz) and Garrick Hagon (Star Wars: A New Hope, Batman: Arkham Knight).
In Augmented Empire, you step into the divided city of New Savannah in 2058. Citizens are graded, with those deemed to have the highest societal value living in luxury at the top, which outcasts and criminals languish in squalor below. Playing as the former poster-child of civil obedience, circumstances turn your world upside down and force you to lead a team of misfits and criminals to survive.
Meet a fascinating cast of characters, across a range of sci-fi locales that span the breadth of the city. Learn the backstories of the characters that join your team and turn their unique abilities to your advantage as you lead them in turn-based RPG battles on your quest to overthrow the corrupt elite. Unlock and upgrade your character’s abilities as you progress to improve your performance in combat and give you new ways of tackling your enemies.
“Bringing Augmented Empire to Steam was a happy accident and excited to share the story of New Savannah to a larger audience. The VR community have screaming for years for a re-master of Augmented Empire,” said programmer Tom Elliott. “We decided to finally give in and dust off the code and rework the game from the Oculus Gear VR and onto the Meta Quest. While we were working on the VR port, we curiously decided to see how the game would feel in a more traditional format.”
Horrors from your worst nightmares await you just beyond the horizon, as Fulqrum Publishing and Misterial Games’ Lovecraftian horror title Stygian: Outer Gods will be launching on PC via Early Access this year! The full 1.0 launch will be hitting PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S at a later date.
But those horrors will be creeping up on you sooner than you realise – as an all-new demo, featuring the earliest segments of the game, will be available during the upcoming Steam Next Fest, taking place from February 24 – March 3. But be quick about it – the demo will be taken down once Steam Next Fest comes to a close!
Stygian: Outer Gods is a survival horror game that pulls you into a hostile world that challenges your very existence. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the schemes of the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Set in the universe of Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, the game lets players witness and influence the events preceding the Black Day. Immerse yourself in a unique world full of dangers, unexplored dark corners, and looming evil beyond mortal comprehension.
You will accompany an enigmatic occultist researcher, Victoria, on an expedition to the foggy settlement of Kingsport, once a prosperous harbor town, now decrepit and almost abandoned. Hoping to find your missing father, you are shipwrecked and soon encounter the nightmares that have haunted this place for centuries. Would you be able to find your way out, keep your sanity, and prevent the coming of the ancient Outer Gods, or maybe being insane is the key to salvation?
The Stygian: Outer Gods demo will be available during Steam Next Fest, with an Early Access launch planned for 2025 on PC. The full 1.0 launch will be hitting PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S at a later date.
Today, KOEI TECMO America and developer Gust revealed the first details on the explorable regions and the monsters who haunt them for their upcoming JRPG, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land. Before setting on a journey across the continent of Aladiss to uncover its mysteries alongside Yumia, fans can lose themselves in the marvelous world that awaits them in a brand-new trailer. Players can also learn more about the key members of the Aladiss Research team with the latest artwork by beloved artist Benitama. Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land will be available March 21, 2025 on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Windows PC via Steam® and, for the first time in franchise history, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.
In Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, players will follow alchemist Yumia Liessfeldt as she joins the Aladiss Research team in hope to unravel the mysteries behind the cataclysm that destroyed the once great continent of Aladiss. Spearheaded by the Order of Eustella and led by Erhard, the Aladiss Research team is an organisation focused on investigating the fallen land of Aladiss, and is composed by researchers, adventurers and mercenaries. Yumia and her friends will be tasked to travel across the three regions of the continent to uncover the mysteries hidden in the ruins of the fallen Aladissian Empire.
Yumia’s journey will begin in the Ligneus region, where the Research team established its first base, far from the Aladissian capital. Yumia will travel through the plains and forest that make up the landscape, and discover research facilities abandoned by the alchemists of the time. Among the points of interest in the region, players will visit the Arbor Botanical Garden and the 8th Laboratory, before continuing their journey.
Players with a passion for fungi of all kinds will be delighted to explore the Sivash region, renowned for its mushroom-like flora, where Yumia will encounter the demihuman Welleks people. While exploring the region, the team will meet the Neru people, a tribe of monsters capable of human speech and easily recognisable by their slender silhouette and mushroom-like umbrellas. Before heading to the next region, players can pause to contemplate the Preces Cathedral, a place of worship at the centre of the Welleks settlement, or explore the impressive ruins of a school, known as Hermea Academy.
The third region is the industrial Auruma region, filled with the ruins of a once thriving city. Among the ruins still standing, players will discover a tree-like metal structure, as well as its commercial district, featuring a station. Yumia will also visit the Mana Transposing Furnace, which was once the nerve centre for the study of mana for the whole of Aladiss. During their stay in the region, the team will encounter the Geni tribe, unique for possessing feathers and beaks like birds.
Everyone who purchases either a physical or digital edition up to two weeks after release will receive the “Athlete of Memories” early purchase costume for Yumia, the “Floating Object of Memories” costume for Flammi, and the unique “Training Wrist Weight” equipment.
In addition, a special physical edition of Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is now available for pre-order exclusively through the NIS America Store. The PREMIUM BOX includes the base game, Yumia’s precious stuffed animal, an artbook, a set of 6 decorative keychains, a CD with extra tracks, and an official short story and accompanying translation booklet.
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The time to begin your very own Nordic adventure has come! Blum Entertainment is thrilled to announce that Viking Frontiers: Prologue has just hit Steam. Players are invited to hostile Nordic lands, where they will try to survive and rebuild the former power of their clan.
Viking Frontiers is a first-person survival game where players gather resources, construct buildings, craft items, manage their clan, and immerse themselves in a captivating storyline.
You can find more information about the Prologue version, new features, changes and improvements in our devlog. Be sure to drop by!
MicroProse is excited to announce that “Neyyah,” the highly anticipated first-person point-and-click adventure game, has a new DEMO available NOW for you to try!
This immersive journey promises to captivate players with its challenging but ‘at your pace’ puzzles, designed to elicit non-stop ‘a-ha’ moments, alongside cinematic FMV sequences that hark back to beloved adventures of the past.
Fans of the genre and newcomers alike can look forward to immersing themselves in the enigmatic world of Neyyah.
Dive Deeper into Neyyah’s Mysteries
Neyyah is a beautifully crafted game that blends rich storytelling with immersive exploration and puzzle-solving. The game’s features include:
Stunning Pre-rendered Graphics: Experience high-quality, realistic visuals that bring Neyyah’s landscapes and environments to life.
Cinematic FMV Sequences: Enjoy full-motion video sequences that bring a nostalgic feel, reminiscent of classic adventure games.
Original Atmospheric Soundtrack: Enjoy a captivating sound design that enhances the immersive experience.
User-friendly Interface: Navigate the world with an easy-to-use 2D point-and-click interface, featuring various cursor options to aid interaction.
Customizable Movement Settings: Choose from four transition settings (OFF / SPEED / NEUTRAL / RELAX) to match your preferred gameplay style.
Journey Mode: Transition through game areas with immersive pre-rendered FMV sequences for a seamless experience.
Faster Travel Mode: Skip ahead through certain scenes to travel more efficiently and reach your objectives quicker.
Non-linear Gameplay: Engage in hours of puzzle-solving and exploration through environmental storytelling, close observation, and note-taking.
Today, Realize Music Inc. is thrilled to announce the launch of Realize Music: Sing exclusively on the Meta Quest in North America. The virtual reality application invites you to lose yourself in an ever-growing catalog of music with gorgeous immersive 360 environments that react to your voice and evolve as you sing, aiming to provide therapeutic benefits such as reducing stress, increasing lung capacity, promoting relaxation and releasing endorphins. Realize Music: Sing launches first on the Meta Quest platform with a massive and ever-growing musical library that features songs stemming from licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, with more major announcements to come.
“Music, for so many, can be seen as a safe space, a space to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect with your inner-self, letting go of any tension and allowing the dopamine to flow. We wanted to create an app that perfectly blends music into a form of wellness and that’s what you get with Realize Music: Sing. Users can sing their hearts out along with their favorite tunes and instantly feel the benefits in their body and their emotional state of mind. You’re virtually transported into a world where you can be carefree, jamming out and actually learning the lyrics to your favorite songs as you go, and with an ever-expanding catalog of music, there will always be something new to explore.” said Mark Roemer, Realize Music co-founder and CEO.
Upon subscription, users will have access to all genres of music from your favorite artists. Realize Music: Sing’s library is continuously growing, with new music set to release weekly.
The next several months will see weekly song and artist additions to the ever-growing library as well as new features added to the app, setting Realize Music: Sing apart from any other app in the market today.
For a limited time, users can subscribe to an introductory subscription price of $9.99 per month or $99.99 for an annual subscription
Key Features of Realize Music: Sing:
Extensive Music Library: Access more than 1 million songs, updated weekly, ensuring a vast and ever-expanding selection to suit every musical taste and mood.
Voice-Reactive Environments: Engage with dynamic visuals that respond to your singing, creating a deeply immersive experience where your voice shapes the world around you. New worlds dropping bi-weekly!
Lyric Visualization: Watch lyrics transform into captivating visual effects as you sing, enhancing the emotional and sensory connection to the music.
Customizable Settings: Personalize your environment and experience by selecting different settings and visual themes, making each session uniquely yours.
Interactive Activities: Enhance your musical journey with 3D painting and air drumming activities in connection with the music, adding layers of creativity and interaction and getting the rest of your body moving for additional benefit.
Advanced Navigation: Utilize seamless voice-command navigation for an intuitive and hands-free experience, allowing you to focus entirely on the music.
Community Playlists: Create, share, and explore playlists with others, fostering a collaborative and social musical environment.
Therapeutic Benefits: Use vocalization to aim for stress reduction and relaxation, tapping into the specific therapeutic power of music and singing to enhance well-being and personal expression.
Invite Your Friends Over!: Use your headset’s ability to cast users’ view to a smart TV, phone or computer for more social settings.
iRacing is excited to reveal new details for NASCAR 25, NASCAR’s next flagship racing title, coming to PC and consoles this fall. Fans can watch the new developer diary video, featuring racing legend and Executive Producer Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion Ty Majeski, and the development team, for an inside look at the game’s all-new Career Mode.
NASCAR 25 will feature all four premier NASCAR series – the NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series, Craftsman Truck Series, and, appearing along NASCAR series in a standalone title for the first time, the ARCA Menards Series. All four series, along with real drivers from each, will feature extensively in NASCAR 25’s Career Mode, as well as in other gameplay modes such as quick races, seasons, and online multiplayer.
Career Mode will kick off in your backyard garage, where you’ll customize your vehicle before making your debut in the ARCA Menards Series and honing your skills to advance up the ranks. There’s more to a successful career than just racing – you’ll sign contracts, earn money, hire staff, expand your facilities, and make public appearances to build your reputation. Strategic choices off the track will play a pivotal role in your journey to becoming a NASCAR Cup Series champion. On the racetrack, you’ll have more interaction with your crew chief and spotter than ever before.
NASCAR 25 is the first standalone NASCAR console title produced by iRacing, the developers behind the most authentic motorsport racing simulation in the world. iRacing is bringing decades of racing expertise to NASCAR 25, including developers who worked on fan-favorite NASCAR games like NASCAR Racing 2003, NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona, and entries from the NASCAR Thunder series.
For updates on NASCAR 25 and additional iRacing products, visit www.iRacing.com.
*Please note that the game’s release date has been updated in the news release to April 4th, 2025.
4X Strategy game Hyper Empire is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming Steam Next Fest, with a demo set to launch later today. This will offer players an exclusive opportunity to dive into its fast-paced 4X empire management gameplay, featuring multiple ways to win and an engaging single-player experience. The full release is slated for March 14, 2025 April 4th, 2025. Check out more in the trailer below!
Set on the edge of space, Hyper Empire is designed for quick, intense sessions that can be completed in 40 minutes or less. Players control one of five unique factions, each with distinct ships, abilities, and strategies to build their empire. With random events, shifting alliances, and escalating enemies, every playthrough is different. The game combines military might, strategy, and resource management in a deep single-player experience, perfect for those looking to enjoy 4X gameplay in a short amount of time.
The Steam Next Fest demo will give players the chance to experience a small taste of the game’s mechanics, combat, and faction choices. The demo will be available for a limited time, so be sure to check it out when it goes live on February 14th. Players can prepare for the ultimate test of strategy, leadership, and empire-building when the game fully launches on March 14th
Okami Studio announced that OUTLAWED, the upcoming PvPvE first-person extraction shooter, will officially launch on March 12th, 2025. Ahead of its release, the game will be featured in Steam Next Fest, giving players a chance to dive into the action before launch, from February 24th to March 3rd. OUTLAWED’s urban battleground delivers fast-paced encounters, exciting opportunities to outplay opponents, and plenty of chances to claim victory in every match.
In OUTLAWED, players take on the role of survivors looking to make a name for themselves, scavenging valuable resources and battling through enemy territory to escape with their haul. This online multiplayer game pits 30 players against each other in squads of three, set in a sprawling 10-square-kilometer city teeming with rival squads and local gangs. Players will navigate urban centers, highways, rivers, and mountains, using zip lines, parachutes, and a variety of vehicles to outmaneuver opponents. With customizable weapons, gear, and tactical tools like recon drones, airstrikes, and medical kits, every encounter offers new ways to adapt and succeed.
