Mike Bithell, of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame, surprised everyone by announcing a game and releasing it on the same day. Subsurface Circular promises a new text-based adventure investigator to discover the reason why robots are disappearing in this underground subway mystery.
Subsurface Circular is a short game, but it’s also pretty inexpensive for fans of dialogue trees at $6 on Steam for Windows and macOS.
Couch 1v1 stab-em-up Nidhogg 2 is out today. I loved the first game’s vaguely Atari 2600-era graphics. This one appears to have a “Weird ass SNES” style going on, complete with a Yoshi’s Island world map and online multiplayer.
So close! #Nidhogg2 launches Aug15th on #PlayStation4 https://t.co/z8yihneTwU and #Steam https://t.co/VMVKlQsg2i Preorder for a discount! pic.twitter.com/D94FzxxhCA
— Mark Essen (@messhof) July 29, 2017
I’ve never played Yoshi’s Island because the baby Mario and Luigi characters are dumb as nails but Nidhogg is awesome.
You can get Nidhogg 2 for $15 on PlayStation 4 or Steam on Windows and macOS.
About 14 years ago a game called Kingdom of Loathing sprang out of the wacky mind of Zack Johnson. Kingdom is a free, wacky, online browser-based RPG with goofy hand-drawn stick figures, and funny as hell. It’s been so long since I played that I can’t even remember what email address I ever used to sign up.
Good news for everyone who wants more Loathing, the developer has sprung West of Loathing on us for Windows, macOS, and Linux on Steam. While the original Kingdom was all fantasy, West is taking the action-RPG to the wild west of Loathing for $11. Looks fun.
Blizzard have gone and done it, the remastered versions of StarCraft and its expansion Brood War are available on Battle.net for Windows and macOS at $15. Back when these remasters were announced Blizzard had said that the Battle.net name was going away, they’ve gone back on that and will now call it Blizzard Battle.net, which is fine.
The remastered version of StarCraft has updated graphics, resolutions, cloud saves, and multiplayer features with leaderboards and matchmaking from Blizzard’s modern online services. You can also just get the regular un-remastered version for free at this link, which plays just fine on modern desktop operating systems.
What I really want to know is: When are they remastering Warcraft 2?
