Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)

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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.

Sterling Shroud

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Sterling Shroud Trailer - YouTube

Steam ‌page‌‌Release:‌ January 4Developer:‌ Squid Snooze Studio

Puck

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Steam‌ ‌page‌Release:‌ January 5Developer:‌ Nils Asejevs

Subterror

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Subterror Release Trailer - YouTube

Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ January 4Developers:‌ Team MonumentalAfter a stint in early access, this cooperative horror game set at the bottom of the ocean is now feature complete. Teams of up to four players will need to escape abandoned underwater biodomes playing host to a variety of environments and wildlife. The domes are procedurally generated and range a bunch of biomes including deserts, forests and tundras. It looks like a richly atmospheric affair—kinda like a more stylistically varied System Shock 2—and while coop appears to be the best way to play, you can go in solo as well.

Beyond Citadel

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ January 3Developer:‌ doekkuramori

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This is the sequel to 2020 anime FPSThe Citadel, and while that earlier game looked like Blake Stone remade in the Doom engine, Beyond Citadel is a generational leap into the Quake era (though it retains 2D sprite enemies). While it doesn’t seem to offer much new to the now-well established boomer shooter genre, it does have atmosphere to spare and, probably most importantly for its audience, an anime aesthetic unusually under-utilised in the FPS space.

Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ January 5Developer:‌ Under The Bed Games, Bibiki

This breezy point ‘n’ click adventure is a bite-sized follow-up to last year’sTales From Candleforth, which was a surreal puzzle-oriented take on twisted fairy tales. This “short story” is basically a sample of a forthcoming sequel, and takes the series' “cozy horror” vibe and wraps it around another bunch of puzzles and escape room scenarios. This is free, as these “prologue” samples tend to be, so it might be worth some time if you’re in the mood for oddball horror.

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