Steam News · May 21, 2024
Hi, dear players! Just a quick heads-up that Erik (the designer, writer and lead programmer behind Else Heart.Break()) will release a new game on 5 June – Manahex. Here's a screen shot of it: Manahex is a digital hybrid card / board game. You control a mage that can move around and take control the hexes on the board – this g...
Steam News · Nov 19, 2020
Now that Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed again until December 10th, what are you to do? You’ve grown a lurid blue mohawk, your leather jacket is almost worn in, and your prescription mirrorshades are ready for collection at Specsavers – but for what? You might as well use this time to explore all games cyberpunky, from edgy and nihilistic griping about how the future sucks to wacky cyberjapes that ...
Steam News · May 15, 2020
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. If you plumb the depths of human ingenuity you will resurface with a wet box of penicillin and 100 million bits of different-coloured plastic. We people are very good at making useful things, and then killing oursel...
Steam News · Oct 24, 2019
Game DNA is a series where we take a single concept from games, strip it to its essence, and look at how it and we have developed over time. I was homeless when I discovered Minecraft not homeless in the street-sleeping sense, thankfully. Only in the sofa-surfing sense. I had a bed, even. The creaking cabin bed of two friends who took pity on me and let me crash for a few...
Steam News · Jul 18, 2019
Rural life is disgusting. All those shrubs and trees, how awful. You should pack your checkered pouch and head into the big smoke. The shining cities of videogameland are calling to you, and the team of the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, will be there to help you get settled in to your disgusting, overpriced flat no matter which giant urban maze you choose. Trust us, life is so much be...
Steam News · Feb 15, 2017
At the start of the 1988 adventure game based on William Gibson's genre-defining cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, you wake up face down in a plate of spaghetti. Well, it's synth-spaghetti because this is the future, but that doesn't make it any more comfortable. Like the book's protagonist Case you're a down-and-out former console cowboy who has lost the ability to hack, t...
Steam News · Feb 24, 2016
Else Heart.Break() I was burned out on Humble Bundles after the first couple. In part it was because my cup runneth over with games I've never installed and bundles contribute to Steam library shame in a big way. But there's also the fact that the quality is highly variable from one bundle to the next. Humble Indie Bundle 16 is obscenely well endowed. You can pay what you want for Retro ...
Steam News · Jan 22, 2016
(Coming to Humble and GOG soon too.) ADDED: GetTypeOfThing() function added to some computers ADDED: Not operator in Sprak (i.e. if !hungry) ADDED: NPC:s with modifiers will fix doors that have been modified TWEAK: Can't teleport when in a conversation (prevents quite a lot of buggy situations) TWEAK: Can't fall asleep when in a conversation (hopefully prevents several buggy situations) TWEAK: Upg...
