Hi everyone!

Missing the Summer Sale already? So are we, that's why HypeTrain is throwing its own: from July 15 to July 29, most of the publisher's games will be available at a nice discount. Don't miss your chance to restock your Steam library with some indie gems!


Visit HypeTrain Summer Sale 2024

But that's not all, we've also got some freebies prepared for you! A stealth action game Intravenous 2 is hitting Steam on August 15 - to mark the occasion, the first installment in the series, Intravenous, will be available to grab for free within 24 hours starting now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486630/Intravenous/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2608270/Intravenous_2/

Lastly, if you happen to enjoy base-building and automation games, be sure to play the free prologue by our friends at Loonworks Games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2730640/Prospector_The_First_Contract/

Cheers!

Autumn is a season of harvest, and games are no exception! Our publisher HypeTrain Digital decided to join the festivities and arrange a mega sale to be held from 8 to 12 September. Apart from the biggest discounts of up to 90%, HypeTrain Digital Publisher Sale features new game reveals, free demos, and even 3 brand new releases, also on sale – definitely worth checking out!

And if for some reason you still don’t own 12 is Better Than 6, now is the best time to fix it – the game is 90% off after all.


Happy shopping!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/410110/12_is_Better_Than_6/

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re doing well! Today we’d like to present you a game our friends are working on, because they’ve just released its new demo, and we think that it deserves your attention.



We’re talking about There Is No Light — a pixel-art action-adventure set in a grim underground world ruled by the mysterious Church of the Great Hand, where the entire human population has been eradicated by a global catastrophe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/

Explore the game world, listen to the stories of survivors, vanquish hordes of bloodthirsty demonic creatures and fight deadly Bosses to fulfill your goal — save your child who has been taken away by the Church.

There Is No Light takes part in the Steam Next Fest, thus there is a brand new demo version available on Steam from June 16 to June 22 — don’t forget that the demo is time-limited and it will be removed from the platform after the event, so make sure to check it out!

The new demo features all the core gameplay and three in-game locations: New Nimbus, Path Of Sorrow and Steel Forest, as well as one mini-boss and one full-fledged boss at the end.

Also, the team has recently published a teaser of a launch trailer, which will be released later this summer — you can watch it on YouTube.



We really hope you enjoy the work our friends have put so much effort into, and, of course, have a great day!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/

Hey everyone!

In this update we’d like to recommend you a game our friends made, which has left early access today and is now available with a 25% Launch Discount.

Breathedge is a hilarious space survival game. You play as the survivor of the spaceliner catastrophe who finds himself in the middle of a ridiculous universal conspiracy, all the while battling the elements in order to find the way home.



Breathedge boasts a wild mix of awesome visuals and exciting first-person survival experience in outer space, spiced with grotesque humor. Collect items, make tools, build vehicles, and more to help you unravel the mystery behind the explosion of the largest space vessel and all its dark secrets. Smooth navigation through space is not without dangers: watch out for extreme cold and heat, ever-encroaching radiation, and coffin-robots out for blood!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/738520/Breathedge/

The game has very positive reviews on Steam, and we’re sure that some of you will find it to their liking!

Hi!

We’re delighted to take part in the Steam Game Festival (June 16 - June 22), which is already live now! Throughout the event we've brought demos for each of the 8 games we are currently working on.



All of them are in different genres, settings and styles. You will surely find something that piques your interest! All the content available for Steam Summer Festival is free, some demos are long, some allow infinite play. Here is a little sneak peek of every title available.




Voidtrain is a first-person action/survival game where you become a crew member of an interdimensional express. Build your own train, upgrade it, craft weapons and travel across different mysterious worlds full of outlandish creatures, Nazis and other dangers.

https://youtu.be/o0bIODWSX5Y

Voidtrain’s demo features a base loop of the game, where you’ll be able to travel between biomes on your train, gather resources to upgrade it and stop by interdimensional train depots filled with Nazis ought to be defeated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159690/Voidtrain/




Tunche is a charming, hand-drawn beat'em up hack and slash game with roguelike elements, co-op and a pinch of shaman witchcraft. Visit the amazonian jungle alone or together with your friends, choose one of the 5 unique characters and hack through hordes of enemies!

And if you like A Hat in Time, we got a big surprise for you — Hat Kid will be the 5th Playable Character in the game. Moreover, you’ll be able to test her in the demo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/




Do you miss the golden era of Game Boy? Linked Mask is a 2D platformer that will make you reminiscent of the good old days, where a player has to overcome six towers, collect six masks containing elemental powers and ultimately conquer the Castle of the Primals. And there’s a chillingly cool soundtrack that will make your head bop as you traverse the deadly Towers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111590/Linked_Mask/




Plunge into a VHS-era cyberpunk world of Jack Move, an RPG featuring japanese style turn based battles and gorgeous Hi-Bit pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOLVvhsJFw

There’s a brand new demo of Jack Move available that features a new slums area, a new dungeon and a whole bunch of new enemies for you to tangle with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099640/Jack_Move/




Black Book is a dark RPG Adventure based on Slavic mythology and featuring card-based combat. You will take on the role of Vasilisa, a young sorceress on a quest to revive her beloved one. In order to do so, she has to uncover all the 7 seals of Black Book — a demonic artefact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish.

The demo features an essential part of the story — the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. You’ll be able to test test the core game mechanics, battle regular demons and even test your strength in a fight against a boss.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138660/Black_Book/




There Is No Light is a pixel-art action adventure in a dark post-apocalyptic setting, which tells a story of a protagonist fighting against a fallen underground civilization and its appalling religious rituals.

In this demo you’ll be able to explore a small part of the game world. Visit a village, the existence of which remained unknown for a long time. Find out how people live in the underground world ruled by the Church of the Great Hand. Find your own playstyle by combining 3 available weapon types, so that eventually you can fight a giant boss Behemoth that gets in your way to freedom.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/




Tower Princess is a 3D roguelike action platformer where you'll have to beat a dungeon, defeat a dragon, rescue a princess/prince and manage a perfect date with them! There’s a wide variety of royalty members you can hit on — you’ll be able to find someone you like even if you’re not into humans.

The demo is a linear and brief sample of a run in one of the Castle's areas. It shows the visuals and the core gameplay of Tower Princess, but it's focused on the princess aid in combat, as without her help, you wouldn't stand a chance against the Evil Dragon. Are you ready to test yourself as a knight in shining armour?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138650/Tower_Princess/




SuchArt is a painting sim game featuring you being such an amazing artist. Really you rock, your latest DNA test is very positive about it. Now please paint, sell and expose your art from your new studio aboard the Space City. And don’t forget — the only limit is the size of your brush (or a flamethrower).

SuchArt demo features a separate room (a virtual studio instead of a real one you’ll get in the full game) with a limited amount of tools and an introductory part of the story. However, you’ll be able to test the core game mechanics and take a couple of commissions from virtual clients, which is already fun!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293180/SuchArt/

Greetings fellow mercenaries!

Ink Stain Games and HypeTrain Digital are thrilled to announce that you’re invited to the relic hunt in the world of “Stoneshard” - a challenging turn-based RPG set in an open world with procedurally generated dungeons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwPAr4V3oK0

Stoneshard is a blend of a traditional turn-based RPG combat with brutal roguelike challenge, featuring an unrestricted character development and a complex injury treatment system.

Players who are well-acquainted with the traditional roguelike games will certainly find similarities between a classic dungeon crawler and Stoneshard - however, our game puts a larger emphasis on strategy and resource management. The game is set in a world rich with lore, which helps players immerse themselves in this setting while they explore the dangerous lands of Stoneshard.



Explore the open world of Aldor, a kingdom in ruin where danger lurks around every corner...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/625960/Stoneshard/

Here’s a message from our partners at HypeTrain Digital - their top-selling survival title, The Wild Eight, is coming out of Early Access later today!

To celebrate, The Wild Eight 1.0 will be sold with a -15% discount for a week, until Oct 10th.

Act now, while the offer lasts!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/526160/The_Wild_Eight/

Here’s what’s awaits both new and old players in the The Wild Eight 1.0:

• The conclusion to The Wild Eight's story - continue the main questline to uncover the mystery of the Dark Matter
  
  
• Discover new side-quests and locations in an all-new biome, filled with exciting creatures and resources
  
  
• Find and make use of the new ranged weapons and equipment;
  
  
• Stability improvements & optimization fixes

Want to give some extra love to the creators of The Wild Eight - and get some awesome stuff in return? We've got just the option!

The Wild Eight Supporter Pack is reserved for the biggest fans of The Wild Eight, and includes:

• The Wild Eight Digital Artbook
  
  
• The WIld Eight Original Soundtrack
  
  
• The Wild Eight Exclusive In-Game Content: Animal Hat Pack

Message from the HypeTrain team!
We’d like to thank each and every one of our fans and Kickstarter backers - without them, this journey wouldn’t be possible! You helped us shape our game along every step of the way - providing valuable feedback on bugs and errors in Early Access, sharing your thoughts on the game’s balance and content, and just giving our team enough motivation for us to pull ourselves towards Version 1.0!

It’s been a long, tough road - but it’s just a single step in the game’s history. The PS4 and Xbox One versions are currently in the works, and we’ll be able to share more info about them very soon.
But after that - what awaits The Wild Eight in the future? Only time will tell.

Feel like you could've forgotten some aspects of these games? We're glad to help you with a quick rundown!



Stoneshard is an immersive hybrid of roguelike and RPG. In it you travel through procedurally generated world of Aldor as an opportunistic adventurer with his caravan. On your journey you will manage your own needs and those of your followers, fight relentless enemies while trying to preserve your own life and sanity. All while creating your own unique hero and shaping the fate of the whole country.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/625960/Stoneshard/



Police Stories is a top-down tactical shooter, in which you play as on-duty police officers — John Rimes and Rick Jones. Create a unique loadout out of multiple equipment choices and carefully coordinate your actions with your partner to fulfill your task. Just remember that you don't have permission to shoot on sight — less-lethal approach is preferred.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/539470/Police_Stories/

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The period of the American Frontier was a fascinating time in terms of weaponry. Back then the ingenuity of gunsmiths really started to shine. Some guns became the foundation for modern firearms and went down in history as the best firearms of their time. Other, less successful weapons were simply forgotten.
Today, we’ve chosen 3 exotic guns that have revolving cylinders and rotating mechanisms. All of them were patented and manufactured during the time the game takes place -- albeit in small amounts, -- so our main hero or nasty gringos attacking him could, potentially, get their hands on these firearms.



Name: Porter Turret Rifle
Patent holder: Perry W. Porter (1st type patented in 1851)
Type: Turret gun
Caliber: .44
Number of copies made: 1250~

As we all know, gunsmiths have tried to make a practical repeating rifle for a long time. But, weirdly enough, the first design of a revolving cylinder had its chambers aligned perpendicularly to the center axis, resembling a wheel. And the cylinder itself was rotating horizontally -- hence the name ‘turret’. So in 1851 Perry W. Porter came up with an incredible idea of… aligning the cylinder vertically! Despite being an overall clunky mechanism, it was, nevertheless, pretty functional. Still, there was a small probability of cylinder chain-firing, in which case bullets could fly in any direction, potentially wounding the gun’s own wielder. This drawback ultimately became the reason for the Porter Rifle to be forgotten; as Samuel Colt himself spread a rumor about Perry Porter dying to his own creation during one of the demonstrations! This rumor was false, but by the time it was disproven everyone already thought the rifle was too dangerous.



Name: Colt 1855 Revolving Shotgun
Patent Holder: Samuel Colt (patented in 1855)
Type: Revolving shotgun
Caliber: 10, 12, 16, 20-gauge versions were manufactured
Number of copies made: 1300~

Speaking of Samuel Colt. Back in 1855, his company started manufacturing a revolving shotgun! The gun offered much more firepower than any double-barreled shotgun ever could. It also had a unique property of having its hammer bolted on the side, unlike other, similar weapons. But, just like with any revolving mechanism, there’s still a small gap between the cylinder and the barrel of the gun that leaks gunpowder gases while firing. Nobody particularly liked getting lead and gas spat onto their supporting hand, and holding the shotgun with both hands on the grip was just too weird. For these reasons, Colt’s Revolving Shotgun lived a rather short life -- just like most other revolving rifles.



Name: Walch Navy 12-Shot Revolver
Patent Holder: John Walch (patented in 1859)
Type: Revolver
Caliber .36 NAVY standard caliber
Number of copies made: 200~

The game has surely taught us that 12 shots are better than 6 - but what if you could make 12 shots using just one handgun? This neat concept was realised in a 12-shot revolver, patented by John Walch. The process of loading charges by applying powder and sealing it with a round allowed for some crazy applications. In this particular case the cylinder actually has 6 chambers, but each one of them was then loaded with 2 charges stacked one after the other. The revolver had two hammers and two circles of percussion nipples: outer circle detonating the charge in the front, and the inner one firing the 2nd charge in the back of the chamber. It sounds awesome, but in practice the gunslinger would have to use smaller powder chargers to fit two rounds. That led to each individual shot being weaker, losing a part of its stopping power. And everyone knows that it’s important to spend as little rounds as possible to take down a target -- even in video games!

12 Is Better Than 6 doesn’t have these exotic guns, but has some of the most iconic weaponry from the Wild West era; and offers a great shooting experience!

Hola amigos,

Good news for ya’ll Nintendo fans out there - 12 is Better Than 6 is coming to Switch on March 5th! After a successful Kickstarter campaign and a subsequent release on Steam, the game loved by Rock Paper Shotgun and Kotaku is going to be available on Nintendo Game Store for a set price of $9.99.

Check out the Switch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRGAJXUvBY&feature=youtu.be

Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/12-is-better-than-6-switch

Compete with your friends for the title of the most skilled Bounty Hunter in the Wild West. Get your guns ready!