With over 14,000 games released on Steam last year, there's a lot of noise to sort through to find the good stuff. We wanted to highlight a game we've been following for a while, that's already completed its EA journey and launched to critical acclaim just a few months ago.
Colony Ship is an in-depth cRPG with turn-based tactical combat, ten different potential party members, a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees. It's the kind of RPG we love, and they've delivered at a really high level of quality.
It's a dystopian sci-fi RPG for fans of games like the classic Fallout titles or more recent hits like Wasteland 3. Like us, Iron Tower Studios values serving a core audience over making more generically mainstream games. They're known for hardcore, text-heavy RPGs with interesting worlds to explore and great storytelling. Colony Ship has challenging combat where a lot of different builds are possible, but it also allows for pacifist runs using your speech skills to avoid combat entirely.
We encourage you to check it out. Splattercat has a great video showing the gameplay experience if you want a preview, and their lead developer Vince is active in the Steam forums answering questions. This one's worth a look.
Hello everyone, I would like to thank you all for playing the game and all the positive comments. Due to this month being both very challenging and pivotal for me, I've decided to release a new update and discount the game by 20% for the rest of the month. In this update, you'll find:
- Added the voice recognition menu and now if you doesn't have a microphone, you can use this drop down menu to use a voice command instead.
- More optimization.
- Improved microphone picking up noises.
- Addded additional support for a "C" button to crouch.
- Adjusted walking speed to be a little bit faster than before.
Additionally, I've left something special for the very end, after the game credits in this update. I hope you'll be as excited as I am. If you have any feedback, suggestions for future updates, or any questions, feel free to join us on Discord[/b]
We are happy and proud to welcome you to Over The Top: WWI, a new Third Person Shooter taking place in the muddy trenches of, you guessed right, World War One.
Over The Top: WWI brings brutal real-time third-person multiplayer and singleplayer combat set in the muddy fields of the First World War, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the Great War as either the Central Powers or the Triple Entente.
Watch our first teaser and browse the Steam page for more details about the game.
We will be offering playtest sessions soon, so stay tuned for future updates here or on our Social media! We also invite you to wishlist and/or follow the game here on Steam to be notified of news, updates, and playtest sessions.
It is with heavy heart that we share the decision to discontinue development on Battle Cry of Freedom for the foreseeable future. When we initially launched the game on Steam in March 2022, we were hoping to foster a community of players passionate about the American Civil War. While the initial reception was positive, we observed a gradual decline in players over the ensuing months. This, unfortunately, led to the operating costs far exceeding our income.
However, in our commitment to honor the promises made at the game's release, we continued to develop Battle Cry of Freedom for an additional year, culminating in the 2.0 Update. The 2.0 Update brought a large number of fixes and content additions, fulfilling all the commitments we made and even exceeding expectations.
Despite the initial positive response to the 2.0 Update, we encountered another decline in player numbers. While a dedicated community continued to support the game, sustaining its development became financially unviable. Therefore, we were forced to make the difficult decision to discontinue development on Battle Cry of Freedom.
We express our sincere appreciation to the passionate player base, especially those in China, for their unwavering support. We would also like to give a special shout-out to players "Storm" and "Deckard" who have kept hosting events and supporting the game despite the lack of updates and players.
Please be assured that regardless of the decision to discontinue Development of Battle Cry of Freedom, we will continue hosting and running Servers forth both our European and North-American community and do not plan to shut them down as long as Battle Cry of Freedom has players.
Moving forward, we intend to leverage the framework we've established for Battle Cry of Freedom and the experience we have gained to create new and exciting gaming experiences. As such, we are happy and proud to welcome you to Over The Top: WWI, a new Third Person Shooter taking place in the muddy trenches of, you guessed right, World War One.
Over The Top: WWI brings brutal real-time third-person multiplayer and singleplayer combat set in the muddy fields of the First World War, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the Great War as either the Central Powers or the Triple Entente.
Watch our first teaser and browse the Steam page for more details about the game.
We will be offering playtest sessions soon, so stay tuned for future updates here or on our Social media! We also invite you to wishlist and/or follow the game here on Steam to be notified of news, updates, and playtest sessions.
After 4 years working on the tech, we are finally announcing our game Kingmakers. You play as a modern soldier who goes back in time to change history. You do this by taking command in massive medieval battles with thousands of soldiers.
KINGMAKERS tech allows for a real-time multiplayer battle simulation containing thousands of soldiers with the animation, graphical, and AI fidelity you'd expect from a shooter with only a handful of enemies at a time. This is accomplished through a 100% custom bare-metal multi-threaded AI system and a completely unique GPU based animation system.
In addition to the medieval knights, cavalry, archers and ancient war machines, you also bring your modern vehicles and weapons of war in this fully dynamic simulation.
So get ready to grab your modern weaponry and travel back to medieval England. Solo or with friends.
In less than a month since launching, Enshrouded crossed the two million players mark! Since its first week, the game has held a steady Very positive rating on Steam, and the reception everywhere has been both incredible and humbling. Whether you're one of the celebs, athletes, or one of the two million anonymous Flameborn who have taken up the fight to reclaim Embervale, you're all absolute heroes in our book. We couldn't have expected such a response.
We've already put out multiple hotfixes and a patch to address your concerns and issues. We're hard at work on another patch that we hope to release shortly, and work has started on the first content update, for which we hope to share plans soon! In the meantime, a reminder that you can vote for one of the 2600+ player suggestions on our feedback platform.
You've trusted us to make Enshrouded the best game it can be. The journey is barely starting, and we can't wait to share it with you!
Yo, Dealers! We have both our comic books for you to read in one go. And do look at the bottom of the post, there’s some news about the Bluntie challenge!
But first, DDS timeline!
Click on each cover to open the comic book in PDF.
So, the Bluntie Challenge.
First, we’re lowering the number of Blunties you need to find from 20 to the lucky 13.
Second, you need to find, screenshot and send us all 13 before the end of February. The demo will only be available until March 1st. No time to waste then!
The prize: Drug Dealer Simulator 2 full game (once it is released).
And, just so you have something to go on, here’s a small hint: some Blunties may be found only at specific times of the day, and some can only be seen at certain angles.
12-5 PM 12-6 PM
Once again, the first 5 people who send us 13 Blunties win the full DDS2 game. And we will know if you cheated, so don’t 👀
