5 new Steam video games you in all probability missed (March 25, 2024)

On a median day a few dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we predict that is factor, it may be understandably arduous to maintain up with. Doubtlessly thrilling gems are positive to be misplaced within the deluge of latest issues to play except you type via each single sport that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve accomplished. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered the finest PC video games you possibly can play proper now and a operating record of the 2024 video games which can be launching this yr. 

KinnikuNeko: Tremendous Muscle Cat

Steam‌ ‌web page‌ ‌Launch:‌ March 19Developer:‌ Kamotachi

As the best particular person on the PC Gamer staff, I’m simply offered on a sport if it stars a cat, however I didn’t see a bodybuilding cat in my tea leaves this morning. Is it cute or a horrible abomination? That is the stress on the coronary heart of KinnikuNeko, which is a reasonably simple 2D platformer and beat ’em up about being a bizarre muscle cat. It comes wrapped—maybe inevitably—in shiny and cheerful anime stylings, and in addition inevitably, our ripped feline pal should defeat an alien scourge within the firm of two fairly regular wanting children. Appears to be like like dumb, low-stress enjoyable.

Thunder Helix

Steam‌ ‌web page‌ ‌Launch:‌ March 22Developer:‌ David Walters

The ’90s was a golden age for complicated flight simulators with austere un-textured polygonal graphics. I personally was not sensible sufficient to play most of them, except for the extra arcade-centric Chuck Yaeger’s Air Fight, however there was an enormous marketplace for the deep and severe flight affairs, and Thunder Helix is the primary sport (that I’ve seen!) to capitalise on a presumed nostalgia for that custom. This helicopter gunship sim undoubtedly appears the half, albeit with a body price possibly quadruple what my 386 may deal with. The format appears much like video games of yore: missions perform throughout a handful of targets, however Thunder Helix additionally has night and daybreak missions, and uh, explosive camels for some motive. It is in Early Entry, with full launch anticipated in a few yr.

4D Golf

Steam‌ ‌web page‌ ‌Launch:‌ March 23Developers:‌ CodeParade

Because the identify implies, that is golf, however the mini-golf impressed programs take pleasure in a thoughts bending fourth dimension. In case you’ve ever stared at a tesseract for hours questioning what the heck it is meant to signify or evoke, a few hours taking part in 4D Golf will pressure you to determine it out. There are 120 ranges, a stage editor, “tons of visualization choices to grasp 4D house” and doubtless a headache or two as you navigate the surreally shapeshifting areas. Appears to be like sensible.

Parry Nightmare

Steam‌ ‌web page‌ ‌Launch:‌ March 22Developer:‌ Kakukaku Video games

It is a weird motion RPG the place you do not assault your enemies: you parry them. So parry-haters look away, I suppose. It kinda appears like a Vampire Survivors clone, for the truth that the topdown view is totally crawling with enemies, however as you possibly can in all probability think about, the motion is a bit more precision oriented. Well being is obtained with each profitable parry, and if you find yourself with an extra of “souls” you need to use them to emit a screen-wiping particular assault. 

Bears In House

Steam‌ ‌web page‌ ‌Launch:‌ March 23Developer:‌ Broadside Video games

Bears in House is a whimsical first-person shooter with intense bullet hell projectile dodging. There is a huge concentrate on precision and ceaseless motion, and—for some motive I am not going to analysis—when you eat sufficient of the honey pots which can be illogically strewn all through the maps, you possibly can rework right into a bear. Higher nonetheless, all this stupidity does not come within the type of a roguelite: it is a linear, single-player first-person shooter with different environments and even mini-games. Additionally: bears.