Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 14, 2024)

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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.

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Steam ‌page‌‌Release:‌ October 12Developer:‌ lamedeveloper

Last Time I Saw You

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ October 10Developer:‌ Maboroshi Artworks

A nostalgic coming of age story with magical realism elements, you say? Set in the 1980s?In a small Japanese town? There are some for whom Last Time I Saw You will tick every box, and it definitely looks the part, with gently atmospheric hand drawn art and at least one Shibu Inu. It’s a sidescrolling narrative adventure with some forgiving action and puzzles, drawing its light weirdness from the familiar trove of Japanese folklore. Definitely one to wishlist for a wistful Sunday afternoon.

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ October 10Developers:‌ 2OO2The first in a series, Mr. Red Face is a horror mini that has prompted at least a handful of YouTubers to make exaggerated scared-to-death faces in their video thumbnails (why do they always look like they’re about to crap their pants?). It does look good, albeit very much in the established style of PS1-aping retro schlock, but it’s the narrative set up that appeals to me. Mr. Red Face is a fictional character designed to teach children good behaviour, but his innocent beginnings morph into terrifying urban myth and then, inevitably, he becomes real. Definitely one for those who prefer their horror disturbing rather than gory.

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Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ October 11Developer:‌ Moulin aux Bulles Studio

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Dungeon Antiqua

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Dungeon Antiqua

Steam‌ ‌page‌‌Release:‌ October 10Developer:‌ Shiromofu Factory

Not much to say about this one: it nails the Game Boy RPG aesthetic so precisely that it could very well be exhumed from the archives of a defunct 1980s studio, UFO 50 style. Though the combat looks pretty standard for an old school JRPG / dungeon crawler hybrid, there’s apparently some hacking elements, and the maps are randomly generated. Combined with the “wide variety of professions” it looks like you’ll be able to suck many, many hours out of this one, assuming you’ve got a Steam Deck: I can’t imagine wanting to play this at a desk.

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