Commanders!

We're celebrating 15 years of World of Tanks—and it's all thanks to you. Through epic battles, new modes, and evolving visuals, this game has grown side by side with its community. Take a moment to relive the journey and see how much we've achieved together:

Want to know everything that's happening for the 15th anniversary? Check out the full celebration overview here:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1407200/announcements/detail/509585835321983058

Hey there! 😊

The script is finished, and I’m now busy rendering scenes! 🖼️

For the stats lovers out there: the script comes in at 2,789 lines and roughly 16,500 words.

What’s coming in this update?

A bit of ring shopping 💍, a wedding gown fitting 👗 with the soon-to-be father-in-law (which turns out a little more… tense than expected 😅), and even a reunion with an old friend. 👀

As for the current progress — 14% of the story has already been rendered!

Wishing you all a great week! ✨

All Generals are invited to come play the hands-on demo of Sudden Strike 5 and test their strategic abilities in hall 7.1, starting August 20th!

scriptwelder here. If you've ever played any of my games, you probably know I like to mix genres and game mechanics. And Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken is no exception!

We are just a week away from the launch on August 21, and today I wanted to give you a closer look at one of the game’s most unique elements: its turn-based combat.

While Labyrinth of the Forsaken is first and foremost a point-and-click adventure packed with exploration, puzzles, and atmosphere, there will be moments where Amy must face her fears head-on. These encounters are handled through a tactical turn-based combat system.

Horror without an actual danger is shallow. Instead of cheap jump-scares, Deep Sleep settles on setting a dark, eerie atmosphere, but that doesn't mean the world of nightmarish dreams is safe.

In many horror games the main protagonist is forced to run away from the monsters; and yes, this might be true in some cases in Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken, but more often than not, you can stand your ground and try to fight the nightmares back.

You will have to manage limited resources, and decide when it's wiser to fight or avoid danger altogether. This is what I strongly believe a survival horror should be about, and Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken aims to be exactly that.

However, unlike many classic survival horrors out there, instead of frantic action, combat plays out like a puzzle and you will choose your attacks at your own pace. That's because I never wanted Deep Sleep to be an action game. I find the turn-based approach to be a good middle-ground between your classic point-and-click and a high-stakes horror game, where spooks are something more than just scripted narratives.

Some of your regular inventory items can be used to attack the enemy, others will let you defend, and some will heal your wounds. One thing they have in common: they are limited. A wrench can only smash so many times before it breaks and a can of meat only has so many bites before it is empty.

And while you can get those items back simply by Imagining them (you're a lucid dreamer, after all!) it will give your adversaries time to strike, so it's better to begin an encounter while prepared.

Now, you can't just use any weapon recklessly; every decision counts. There is a difference between stabbing with a pocket knife and bashing with a crowbar: one will make the enemy lose more health over time, but its short range will also allow them to strike you sooner, so maybe it's not always worth it? Crowbar, on the other hand, can smack the enemy hard enough to stun them, delaying their attack further and buying you time.

Like in classic turn-based combat games, you need to think before you click. If your health is running low, it's probably a good idea to do something about that before it's too late. But also, you need to observe your enemies closely: the game tells you what their intent is and how many turns you have before they act. See a red skull icon and a blinking red 0 turns warning? Better grab anything that could be used as a shield and brace for impact!

And yes, I said enemies, plural. Sometimes fights are not fair and you will be outnumbered, forced to juggle your attention between incoming attacks of more than just one foe.

Not every fight will be possible to beat - at least not right away. Amy will be learning how to lucid dream throughout her adventure and, using an experimental technology from a certain corporation, she will be able to level up and unlock new skills. Weapons will become more powerful in her hands, her ability to summon items will improve in many various ways and she will discover how to read enemies' intentions more precisely to even better prepare for what's coming. Have I mentioned there are also secret special weapons hidden around the realm of dreams?

While the combat is designed to be strategic and meaningful, it is just one of many aspects of the game. You might go a long stretch exploring eerie dreamscapes without fighting at all, only to have a sudden encounter that tests your preparation. So maybe it's better to avoid the fight? Sometimes it's possible and actually beneficial, since you save up your precious resources for later. Admittedly, some encounters cannot be avoided: there is an enemy in your direct path and you will have to grab the pipe wrench, like that guy in the Take On Me music video.

Going beyond combat, survival in Labyrinth of the Forsaken will also mean solving environmental puzzles (so don't break that shovel too fast, if you've seen something interesting potentially buried somewhere), and making your way deeper into Amy’s dream world to uncover the truth about her brother Thomas.

I cannot wait for you to experience the tension, mystery, and occasional surprises that await in the Labyrinth. As always, I would love to hear your feedback, so if you have thoughts, ideas, or just want to share your experience, use Steam forums, or join my official Discord server

Stay tuned, and get ready to enter the dream on August 21!

— scriptwelder

Take command of the forces of light in the Age of Wonders 4: Archon Prophecy expansion. Join the celestial Archons as they strike back against Urrath’s corrupt forces. Consult the oracles, glimpse hidden prophecies that shape the fates of the realms and become the master of your own destiny. Thread on hallowed ground as you explore new Forms, Tomes and Blessed Regions inhabited by new Wildlife.

Welcome the Griffon Update, a gift from the Archon. This Free Update, available to all owners of Age of Wonders 4, brings tons of new Features and Improvements. Create Factions in more detail than ever before with the Extra Faction Data, a set of customization options that allow players to assign Custom City Names and Heroes to their Factions, or experience the reworked Mage and Ritualist Hero Classes as well as the brand new Warlock Class.   

Check below for all the details on the Archon Prophecy Expansion and the Griffon Update.

Below, you can find a lot of information about the new content: 

New Forms: Elysian & Ancients

Two New Forms bring their eternal struggle to the soul of your empire.The Elysians are ascended, divine, and heavenly beings that bring a touch of the divine to your realm. The Ancients are withered and bent beings from the depths of history - and other, more sinister places. Older and wiser than time itself, they’ve adapted and overcome their corruption with the use of magical enhancements.
Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Culture: Architects

Build your empire with the help of the Architects — construct vast, magical monuments within your cities and dedicate them to the affinity of your choice to empower your economy and unlock powerful bonuses. The Architects are a culture evoking the empires of antiquity, a people dedicated to the creation of something greater than themselves.

• Builds great monuments in the domain of their cities. These empower their economy and grant them additional Affinity.

• Gain Wondestone, a unique resource gotten from Magic Materials that the Architect culture seeks to acquire to build their monuments.

• Architect Units gain +1 Damage for every stack of Affinity Incarnate granted by their Monument and change their Damage type to match your Dominant Affinity.

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Tomes

Pull through when the odds are against you and fight back in the toughest of moments. Manipulate probability, prevent enemy attacks and foresee the downfall of your enemies. Evoke Archonic magic of purity and rebirth, summon celestial allies and ascend to the ranks of the Archon. Corrupt their power and use their knowledge to protect your undead from those who wield the powers of light and fire. Walk along the path of divinity or corrupt it, only you decide your destiny.

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Hero Class: Battlesaint

Answer the call of the divine with the power of the Battlesaint. Whether guiding the faithful as a sacred support unit or standing firm as a martyr-like tank, the Battlesaint turns virtue into strength and sacrifice into victory.

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Content: Prophecy Traits

Forge your destiny with Prophecy Traits, new society traits that help you shape your empire. Early in your journey a vision will appear, challenging you to define your ruler’s purpose and ambitions. How you interpret it is up to you, but fulfilling the Prophecy will unlock powerful rewards.

• Factions with the Vision of Promise are destined to settle in a land of promise. It is up to the Ruler where they think this can be found.

• Factions with a Vision of Destiny are destined for a great purpose, fated to attract the attention of the Endaillon. The ruler chooses a mark their people bear.

• Factions with the Vision of Ruin are destined to bring about great change to the Realm. Your people foresee a ruinous event they are destined to bring about but do they prevent it or bring about the foreseen ruin.

Learn More: Video

New Content: Blessed Regions

Blessed regions are a new group of Custom Regions, making use of a new Celestial Terrain Overlay. These regions will give a minor economic bonus and annexing Blessed provinces will not incur a Stability Penality. Included in these Blessed Regions is a new Landmark, the Fountain of Creation. As if an extension of the well of creation itself, this fountain spreads the blessings of creation across the Realm.

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Story: Divine Intervention

The Story of Age of Wonders 4 continues. The war against Urrath is intensifying, and its Generals are laying siege to Worlds where Dreamers reside. Sundren has left to fight the Umbral Abyss, avoiding all consequences of the chaos she wrought and the Godir of Magehaven are desperate. The Pantheon searches for aid against Urrath and The Gloomwatch might have a lead.

Even More Content

While we’re sure the above has your mouths watering, there’s even more that you can enjoy. Further included in the Archon Prophecy Expansion are:

• 8 Achievements

• 5 New Music Tracks

• 4 New Premade Rulers

• New Realm Templates & Realm Traits

• New Exotic Mount Traits

• New Archon Interface Skin & Banner Emblems

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3181540/Age_of_Wonders_4_Archon_Prophecy/

New Content: Flaws

Flaws are a new type of Form Trait that introduces meaningful drawbacks to your form. Unlike typical traits, Flaws add points rather than costing them when selected, allowing you to invest more into strengths elsewhere. Flaws aren’t meant to be shrugged off, they should feel impactful - traits you’ll need to actively embrace in creative ways. 

Learn More: Video

Updates: New Hero Classes

Magic Hero Classes have gotten their themes and mechanics split up to create new classes that more effectively cover their associated themes. These changes increase the variety of mage-type heroes that show up during the game, and improve replayability.

• Elementalist - This class is more focused on magical damage, setting up attacks or delivering the killing blow with powerful Elemental abilities. 

• Ritualist - This class is a nature based support class with many healing and utility abilities.

• Warlock - This class covers the darker magical aspects such as necromancy and curses. They mix the role of a debuffing battlemage with a bit of support through both healing and summoning

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Feature: Extra Faction Data

We’ve expanded Faction Creation with a new Advanced Settings menu to give players more control over their custom Factions. Improve your faction identity with custom City Name Lists & fully handcrafted recruitable Heroes and define a Tome Path for the AI to follow when they take control of your creation. This feature is designed for players who want a more consistent and immersive experience—particularly when playing in worlds where their own custom Factions show up.

Learn More: Dev Diary & Video

New Features: AI Starting Bonus & Combat Difficulty

The game difficulty isn’t always quite there. While tools are already in place to adjust challenges these often result in artificial or uninspired gameplay. At the same time, the AI handles all Tactical Combat encounters the same way. This one-size-fits-all approach leaves new players feeling overwhelmed and seasoned players feeling unchallenged. That’s why we’re offering new ways to adjust difficulty levels.

• AI Strategic Bonuses are a way of giving selected AI players tailored early-game bonuses. These are designed to help them scale faster and apply pressure sooner, making each playthrough feel more tense, risky, and unpredictable.

• Tactical AI profiles change the behavior and difficulty of the combat AI to make Tactical Combat feel more balanced, dynamic, and satisfying.

Learn More: Video

Quality of Life and more

For each Major Update we don’t just work on new Content, Balance Changes or Fixes. We always try to dedicate some time to improvements that make the game easier or more accessible to use. With the Griffon Update we have a brand new set of Quality of Life Improvements for you to enjoy. 

Tired of the tedium that comes from world conquest? Multi Stack Movement allows players to select up to 6 Stacks and give them a combined Move Order. Notification Settings give you more control over the notifications within the game and allows players to tailor the notifications to suit their playstyle. And there's now a small chance that items you made in the item forge show up in future sessions. These Persistent Forged Weapons are saved when you finish a session and have a small chance to be given as rewards for Quest, Events & clearing location.

Read the full patch notes here

During this campaign we released lots of Dev Diaries, Streams and Feature Highlight videos, feel free to explore them below!

• Archon Prophecy First Look Dev Stream 

• Archon Prophecy and Griffon Update Overview Series by Pravus on YouTube

Moreover, we are inviting you for a post-launch Dev Stream this Thursday (14th of August), 14:00 CEST, during which you can ask the Devs questions, share your feedback about Archon Prophecy or Griffon Update, or just have some fun!

Watch on our YouTube this Thursday!

Our amazing Art Team prepared an Art Blast - a lot of artwork, concept arts, animations and just amazing pieces were released today on Art Station. Check it out and maybe you will find new cool wallpapers today (we definitely did). 

Explore the amazing artwork!

We have two news to share: 

1. There will be Expansion Pass 3. Yes. It is official! While we cannot provide more details at the moment, we strongly recommend you subscribe to your channels and newsletter so you won’t miss the news when the time comes! 

2. As we mentioned before, Expansion Pass 2 will be become a dynamic bundle, called Last Chance Bundle. Which means you will be able to “complete the set” if you already bought a standalone DLC from the pass and get a nice discount. The switch will happen at 18:00 CEST later today.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3181540/Age_of_Wonders_4_Archon_Prophecy/

We are excited to announce that Carrotour will be in Steam Next Fest: October 2025! We hope more people will learn about Carrotour through this Next Fest. After that, you can look forward to the release of Carrotour! We are planning to release it before the end of 2025, so you certainly won't have to wait too long.

★ Force Switch Skills for Raven, Elesis, Ara, Lu/Ciel and Lithia

Added Force Switch skills for Raven, Elesis, Ara, Lu/Ciel and Lithia.

List of Force Switch skills:

1. Raven

2. Elesis

3. Ara

4. Lu/Ciel

5. Lithia

Hello all D&D and action RPG fans!

Today we’re re-releasing the original Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone for modern PCs. This is a faithful version of the 2004 game with technical updates so it runs smoothly in 2025. Just to clarify, this is not a remaster; gameplay, balance, art, and story are unchanged. We’ve focused on compatibility and quality-of-life fixes.

Here is the changelog:

General

• Fixed multiple slowdowns in game and during startup

• Fixed broken in game clock

• Framerate locked to 30 FPS as per game design

• Fixed game losing control during movie playback

• Game can now run standalone, configuration launcher is no longer needed to play the game

Graphics

• 3D and 2D properly scale to any aspect ratio

• Optimized shadows performance

• 2D rendering now uses linear filtering

• Added borderless and windowed display modes

• Borderless is the default display mode

Input

• Removed DirectInput controller support

• Added full support for any XInput compatible controller

• Controller triggers now work

• Pad mapping changed to match PS2

• Start pauses the game instead of right analog stick

• Controller vibrations implemented

• Hotplugging is supported

Sound

• Implemented sound volume control

• Implemented music volume control

Game

• Sound & music volume can be adjusted in the pause menu

• Vibrations can be toggled on or off in the pause menu

• Movelist inputs will adjust to last input device used

• New PC settings menu

• Tutorial tips will automatically adjust inputs to last input device used

If you encounter problems, please let us know in the Discussions (and include your OS, GPU/driver, and steps to reproduce). Thanks for helping us keep this classic alive and have fun playing Demon Stone!

Thanks for all your support!

SNEG Team

Straw Harvest is now available for Farming Simulator 25! Creative Mesh brings you specialized machines, tools, and other resources. It’s available on PC and consoles, free of charge!

New Brands & Machines for the Pallet Party

Straw Harvest brings powerful machinery from manufacturers KRONE and Bressel und Lade. One of the highlight machines is the world's first mobile pellet harvester: the KRONE Premos 5000.

It produces pellets by collecting straw and hay swaths from the field, and can also be operated stationary with an additional bale shredder.

Two balers, the KRONE BiG Pack 1290 HDP II and Comprima V180 XC, alongside various other machines are designed to handle bales and pallets with ease.

Adding Industry-Based Gameplay

A versatile and configurable industry hall extends your farming operation with more storage and processing of goods. While produced pellets can be sold, used for animal bedding, or fed to animals, the industry hall brings even moer possibilities with its configurations.

Whether you just use it as an empty hall for parking vehicles, store large amounts of bales and pallets, or add a hall crane for easier moving of bulk materia. Adding an automatic palletizer, further processed pellets can be sold at an even higher profit.

In the end, Straw Harvest adds another layer of gameplay and allows you to get more out of your goods and storages. You can download it now, it's free, and both on PC and consoles.

Hi everyone, we’re excited to open up access to the full version of our studio’s first game Prologue: Go Wayback! in the form of an Open Beta Playtest today!

 https://youtu.be/_hU9eG0-Ep8

Go Wayback! uses the in-house machine learning model we have been developing, which feeds into Unreal Engine 5 and allows our artists and designers to generate realistic maps on your local system. It doesn’t use our own Melba engine like Preface does, but it represents a step towards our research into how we can generate worlds at scale to let players create experiences in.

If you played Preface and wondered what a game could look like in a world that is generated anew every time you play, give Go Wayback! a try!

Get the Open Beta via the Playtest button on the store page below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943740/Prologue_Go_Wayback

Stay tuned for more updated from the studio as we continue to update Preface: Undiscovered World.

\\\\ PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions