Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 5, 2024)

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(Image credit: Larian Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together

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The Dark Urge, from Baldur’s Gate 3, looks towards his accursed claws with self-disdain.

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On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered thebest PC gamesyou can play right now and a running list of the2024 gamesthat are launching this year.

Slot Waste

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ August 1Developer:‌ Pickpanpuck productions

Slot Waste is about an inexplicable production line of unknown utility. It’s your job as “the spirit of the factory” to aide each component of the factory line; in other words, Slot Waste is made up of ten surreal mini-games. This isn’t a horror game per se, but it’s definitely unsettling, with creatures of mysterious provenance drawn into the task of powering these bizarre systems and contraptions. I’m reminded of the Tom Waits' song ‘What’s He Building?’. This is what he’s building, probably.

Motordoom

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ August 3Developer:‌ Hobo Cat Games

It’s impossible to get excited about a new Vampire Survivors clone, but the genre has a bunch of brilliant ideas to pillage. Motordoom is one of the most interesting evolutions of the survivor format to date: it’s a third-person “freestyle-sports” roguelite shooter. So imagineRollerdrome, replace its vibrant comicbook art style with grimy PS2 textures, and add an ever-growing number of swarming enemies into tight trick-friendly arenas. Like Vampire Survivors each map is strewn with blue XP gems, but you’ll also accrue points for performing impressive trick and kill combos. Oh, and if all this sounds like too much, you can just toggle auto-shoot and focus on pulling off stunts.

Kitsune Tails

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Smack Studio

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ August 1Developer:‌ ThirdPixel Interactive

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ August 1Developer:‌ Odd Games

This game makes me anxious. It simulates an installation wizard hellbent on tricking its user into installing malware on your computer. That means you’ll need to be super vigilant with every new prompt, double and triple checking the meaning behind seemingly ignorable auto-checked options like “use the information assistant” (my skin crawls imagining the janky UI of this impossible-to-delete program). As you become more and more adept at defying underhanded malware installations you’ll start to get requests for help from other hapless ’90s PC users. You’ll become an anti-malware hero, in other words. This looks like some amusing fun, and it even supports Steam Workshop. Make your own fake malware!

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