Pacific Drive is shaping up to be an electric mix of roguelike and driving survival

Pacific Drive was first announced during one of Sony’s State Of Play streams a couple of months ago, my initial thoughts were, ‘Hey, that spooky first-person driving game has some cool sci-fi vibes about it that makes it look like Control on wheels,’ and, ‘Man, I want to find out more immediately.’ Well, thanks to a recent press presentation, I have found out more about Ironwood Studio’s survival roadtrip game, and it’s a lot more roguelike-y than I was expecting. Here’s everything I learned.

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The Settlers original creator returns to city-building with Pioneers Of Pagonia

The Settlers was first released. The series is still going strong at Ubisoft, but its original creator Volker Wertich is returning to the genre with Pioneers Of Pagonia, a similar city-building sim. The game is currently in development at indie studio Envision Entertainment and it’ll be entering early access on Steam by the end of this year.

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Voidtrain is survival sim about navigating a giant steam train through space, and it’s wild

Steam Next Fest. Looking at both the popular upcoming demo list and the most wishlisted list, survival crafting game Voidtrain sits comfortably in second place on both. I decided to download the demo and see what the fuss was about, and wow, is Voidtrain completely wild.

I thought Voidtrain might be relatively new, but it’s actually been knocking around for a couple of years. It’s been in early access on the Epic Games Store since 2021, and after announcing a Steam release for October 2022, the game got indefinitely delayed. Voidtrain’s Steam page currently has a vague release date of sometime in 2023, but the demo is a good reason enough to check it out while the team is still tightening some loose screws.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti review: the first RTX 40 series GPU worth buying

12GB RTX 4080 that wasn’t. “Unlaunching” this GPU, rebranding it, and releasing it for £100 / $100 less may have bruised egos at Nvidia, but at least it’s left us with an intriguing silicone prospect. Finally, there’s a high-end, DLSS 3-capable, Ada Lovelace architecture-based graphics card that doesn’t cost four figures.

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This citybuilding puzzle game is Threes meets Dorfromantik, and I’m extremely here for it

Urbo might be my Dorfromantik of 2023. It’s a chill, citybuilding puzzle game from the devs behind the altogether more violent Diplomacy Is Not An Option, and it’s all about building tiny little villages on top of rocky outcrops. Except when you stick three of the same building type together, they all zhuup together to create an even bigger one. And a bigger one, and a bigger one. It’s very satisfying. The smooshing lights up all the same parts of my brain that Threes did when I became obsessed with it about five years ago, while the tile planning hits scratches that big Dorfromantik itch, making for an excellent Steam Next Fest demo experience.

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Indiescovery Episode 3: Our Steam Next Fest demo recommendations

podcast Indiescovery already? How time flies! In this episode, the Indiescovery squad reccomend a handful of awesome demos from this spring’s Steam Next Fest for our lovely listeners to check out – six demos to be exact! We recorded this episode on a Friday instead of our usual Wednesdays so, yeah, major end-of-week vibes in this one. Have a listen below!

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Become god of a toy town in this cute upcoming sandbox game

Wood & Weather, an upcoming sandbox god game about manipulating weather as you oversee a small wooden toy town occupied by Notplaymobil figures. Someone wants coffee? Fetch them a coffee. Oh it’s too hot for coffee? Turn on the rain. Oh, and after all you do, they throw the empty cup on the floor? Great, thanks, lovely, pick it up and bin it for them. Check out the cute trailer below!

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