For this month’s Retro First Friday release, rather than launching a few games, we are going retrospective, releasing two special game collections that’ll warm every Scrooge’s heart! These two bundles, each available at a fantastic 33% discount on Steam and GOG, include something for everyone, including sports titles like 4th & Inches and Fastbreak, adventures and mysterious like Legends of Murder and Search for the Titanic, and action-fests such as Sabre Team and Wetlands. With so many great games available, now’s the perfect time to hitch up your digital sleigh and head to Steam or GOG and grab the games that’ll take you through even the chilliest of winters!

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In the spirit of the strange season, we are thrilled to bring two unique adventure classics to Steam for this month’s Retro First Friday releases. Celebrate the Halloween season a little differently this year with the zany zombie FMV classic Zombie Dinos From Planet Zeltoid and the beloved detective game - Legends of Murder Collection.

Each title will put your investigative skills to the test — albeit under very different circumstances. Zombie Dinos From Planet Zeltoid sends you back in time, tasking you with tracking down dinosaurs using facts you learn while scouring an ancient Earth for clues, while Legends of Murder Collection features two text-based murder mysteries to crack, armed with your spyglass, sword, and...spellbook.




Zombie Dinos? Not on your watch! Hop in Dexter the Dinodroid’s time machine and thwart Harry the Harrier’s diabolical plan to bring zombified dinos into the 20th century! This unorthodox educational adventure has you searching for clues and facts to track down dinos. Gather enough hints about each dinosaur’s behavior and habitat, and you’ll find them in no time. Enjoy a slice of 90’s nostalgia, featuring a fully-voiced cast that includes Cam Clarke (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) as Dexter. Or, just fire up the start screen and rock out to a mega-radical dino-tastic title track!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1749720




Take on the role of the Inspector in two old-school murder mystery RPGs. Explore Stonedale Castle and the town of Grey Haven to uncover the truth behind the mysterious and supernatural murders of the King and a wizard’s apprentice. Interrogate witnesses, decipher clues, and fend off attackers in these mysteries!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1749710

Today, Ziggurat Interactive brings three digital-tabletop classics to Steam and GOG with this month’s Retro First Friday collection. Tabletop game strategists have three great titles to choose from: Grandmaster Chess, King’s Table: The Legend of Ragnarok, and Theatre of War. With each game comes a selection of brain-teasing challenges — in Grandmaster Chess, a fantastic take on the traditional “game of kings,” you can choose from five difficulty levels and go against a learning A.I., while King’s Table has players defending Odin himself from incoming attackers, and finally, Theatre of War, a one-of-a-kind abstraction of battlefield tactics both in the medieval and modern eras.

If you want to get in on the action, head over to Steam or GOG for these new Retro First Friday releases and grab them at a 33% discount for a limited time!


Whether you’re a beginner or a veteran, this fully featured chess simulation has all the tools and features you need to learn and master the game of chess. Challenge an opponent with five adjustable skill levels from beginner to grandmaster. A challenging AI opponent will analyze your moves and provide tips and learn from you. Customize your pieces and the board, and take on special challenge modes like speed chess and blindfold mode for added difficulty.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658770/

The Legend of Ragnarok: In this modern take on an ancient board game similar to chess, one side must defend Odin against an onslaught of attackers as he makes his escape to one of the corners of the board. The sides are uneven, leaving Odin ambushed with only twelve soldiers against twenty-four attackers coming from all sides. Use sharp strategy and tactics to help Odin reach safety before he is caught defenseless between multiple assailants!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/719310/

This unique real-time strategy game is set on a surreal tile-based tabletop battlefield. Wage war over three eras of combat: clash swords and loose arrows in Medieval mode, roll tanks and march infantry to victory in the Great War setting, and take to the skies with aerial units in the Contemporary mode. Each mode has its own unique collection of pre-arranged battle scenarios to test your ability to use each unit’s strengths to your advantage and to guard against their weaknesses.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1649340/

If you’re like a lot of people, you’ve probably missed having sports in your life! Ziggurat Interactive is bringing back the thrill of competition with a new batch of classic sports games from Accolade™ and MicroProse™ on Steam today! Prepare to grind out the yardage in 4th & Inches, sink half-court shots in Fast Break, deliver punishing uppercuts in TKO, and race down the pitch in MicroProse™ Soccer. All four games are benchmarks in their genres, so if you’re an armchair athlete looking for some digital sporting action, this Retro First Friday™ roster is right up your alley!

This month’s Retro First Friday™ release includes:

Awesome gridiron action comes to your PC in this release aimed at the armchair quarterback in all of us. Set up your formation, pick your play, and get ready for hard-hitting American football action! Play alone or against a friend. However you play, play to win!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1544720/4th__Inches/

Grab your gloves, create a custom fighter, and head into the ring in this classic boxing simulation. What’s your style — slugger, swarmer, counter-puncher, or boxing legend? Whatever your technique may be, it’s time to step into the ring and show everyone why you’re the greatest of all time!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1297550/TKO/

Fast and flowing footwork is the name of the game in the original MicroProse™ soccer sim. Choose to play indoors or in an outdoor stadium, with each featuring specific rules for the game! Battle your way to the Championship against different CPU-controlled teams in single-player, or go head-to-head against a friend!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1544740/MicroProse_Soccer/

Drive straight to the basket or sink a fade away three pointer in this fast paced 3-on-3 basketball game. But raw talent won’t win tournaments, use the play customizer tool to put your strategy into action. Lace up your sneakers and play alone or against a friend in Fast Break!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1544730/Fast_Break/

Ziggurat is proud to bring three classics from legendary studio New World Computing to Steam for the first time. These games from the mid-90s pushed the bounds of what video games could be and showed what a small, innovative studio could accomplish.


Aliens have teleported Earth to another dimension. You and your team of scientists must travel the galaxy searching for a way to bring Earth home. Muster your crew, build your ship and cross your fingers.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1367170

The year is 2495, you are mercenary John Cole, on a mission to stop a galactic terrorist plot. Search the underwater cities of the flooded Earth for answers and justice.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1367160

You’re a top competitor in the fast-paced, death-defying battle race of the future. As a Zephyr pilot, you must blast your opponents to win the race for the glory of your corporate sponsors and save your own skin!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1423010

We took the first off, but now we're back with a special Retro SECOND Friday to help you fill out your retro game collections. Pick up our Retro First Friday Collection bundles full of our favorite retro games of 2020!


This bundle is action-packed. Whether you're storming WWII Axis strongholds, pirating on the seven seas, or just trying to get the girl, it's got something for everyone!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267930
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1299730
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1373770

Check out all of Collection #1

The adventure continues in collection 2, this time in space! Or if you prefer, through time! Journey the cosmos or your deepest fears with the spectacular and spooky games in this bundle!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1346400
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1299710
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1297560

Check out all of Collection #2

Today, retro-and-modern games publisher Ziggurat Interactive continues to bring retro-gaming to the front by releasing four new games as part of their Retro First Friday program. With this program, the Ziggurat team handpicks several classic titles from gaming history to make available to modern gamers. This month’s roster of awesome releases consists of The Legacy: Realm of Terror, Sea Legends, Psi 5 Trading Company, and XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter. All these great games are available at a 33% discount on Steam for the next week.

Starting today, you can dive into the following classics:

The Legacy: Realm of Terror:

The perfect game to kick off the Halloween season, The Legacy is a haunting first-person adventure/RPG that brings the “horror” to survival-horror. You’ve just inherited an ancient family home...filled with sinister stories and demonic denizens. You’ll need to keep your wits about you, to fend off the fiends who want nothing less than your very soul.

Sea Legends:

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, it’s the seafaring life for you! In Sea Legends, you’ll captain a ship and set sail for adventure, strategy, and swashbuckling danger. Sword fighting, puzzles, and ship-to-ship combat await, cap’n, so hoist the mainsail and prepare for fun.

Psi 5 Trading Company:

The life of a space freighter captain is never easy as you gather a crew, assign them jobs, and manage to get your cargo safely to its destination. PSI 5 Trading Company is one of Accolade™’s first hit games and will put your wits and planning to the test in a unique management sim experience.

XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter:

Aliens have decimated the Earth, and it’s up to you to pilot humanity’s most powerful weapon, the Mantis space fighter. Put your high-speed maneuvering and combat skills to the test as you dive into a deep and immersive story coupled with white-knuckle space combat.