Welcome once again to PCGamesN’s Spotlight on Greenlight, our regular Saturday feature where we look at the best and the most interesting Greenlight games that are hoping to make their way onto Steam. We’ve already looked at dozens of other titles in weeks past, so do take a look at our back catalogue.
There’s something haunting about NaissenceE’s grey monochrome architecture, it both invites exploration but conjures up a sense of awe and dread. You catch glimpses of tunnel shafts which seem impossibly tall. Little outcrops of what is presumably stone marking the incredible height as it stretches away into the distance. The whole thing seems so lifeless and desolate.
I just want to play it.
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I’ve sacrificed the south of Mexico to put all my funds into rooting out corruption in my police force, the cartels will take Puebla next turn but at least I won’t lose any more of my squads through defection. Now if I could just shift the cartel holed up in Baja California I’d have all the northern regions under control and could shift my troops to the borders to mount an invasion on the south.
I’ve only been playing NarcoGuera a short while but it’s already making clear that winning the war on drugs is no simple feat.
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Lunar Module simulator Lunar Flight has gone landed itself an update, though it’s not exactly in keeping with the close-to-realism style of the rest of the game. It’s gone and strapped a set of missiles and countermeasures to the side of Nasa’s lander and allowed for the cumbersome craft to take part in a 16-player arena deathmatch on the moon.
See it in action in the trailer below.
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Unsurprisingly, we thought Bungie was being very silly when they only announced their cross-platform open-world shooter for consoles. We’re a little biased, mind. So the news that the Halo developer is considering a PC version has had us take down the length of scorched bungee cord that we’ve had unceremoniously nailed to the walls to the PCGamesN offices since that first Destiny reveal. The one where they said nobody plays shooters with mouse and keyboard post-Halo, “’cause nobody wants to”.
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Now some folk are pretty keen to get their mitts on the specialist of special releases, the ones that come in hard boxes stuffed with things like figurines studded with LEDs, soundtracks, and instruction books scribed by blind Tibetan monks (who are raking it in judged on the prices of these special editions). These collector’s sets tend to set the buyer back a pretty penny, sometimes breaking above £200.
“Phooey to that,” said Codemasters as they released their one-of-a-kind Grid 2 collector’s edition priced at £125,000. And it doesn’t even come with a statue. It does come with a car, though,
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Defiance may not have launched with much of a bang but the MMO-shooter has been gaining something of a following in the aftermath of the whimper. As a way of drawing more players into their vision of a war torn future Earth, Trion Worlds have made the game free to play this weekend.
A try before you buy affair, if you will.
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Ubisoft and Beyond Gaming are laying out a spread of prizes for their combined Royal Feast competition, with the top prize being a Revolt R770 Gaming PC There are plans to run the contest regularly through the coming months, each time with a different Ubisoft game as the battleground. The first Royal Feast has kicked off with Shootmania and till the 2 June you can win prizes prizes prizes for logging in and smoking some fools.
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While you’ve been going about your life, thousands of players have been chipping away at an ever-shrinking cube. Curiosity’s cube, constructed by Peter Molyneux and the folk over at 22Cans, is a whisper away from being cracked open, its contents to be supped upon by a single player.
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While the last trailer for The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, Ubisoft's free-to-play mashup of Diablo and Dungeon Keeper, introduced warrior knight Sir Painhammer and showed off how you’d be building a castle filled with traps to cut interloping heroes into tiny pieces, the latest trailer shows off the acrobatic archer and traps of a more bestial variety.
Hamsters powering blade-lined wheels. How are PETA going to feel about that one?
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Set in a Parisian vaudeville dreamscape, Contrast is a platformer that grants you the power to merge into your own shadow to traverse levels. You’ll be altering light sources to form new paths through puzzle spaces, walking across the shadow cast by a statue's arm or using the silhouette of a fairground carousel as your own personal elevator. It all looks very stylish and it’s coming to a Steam storeplace near you later this year.
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Focus Interactive look set to unleash a truly deep and replayable strategy game in Wargame: Airland Battle. We’ve already seen how their new deck system will reward you for taking tactical risks, which as a side-effect will lead to more difficult games. And, now, today’s video reveals the game’s dynamic campaign that can be played solo or against a friend in what promises to be a frequently changing battlescape as one side aims to liberate a continent from the other.
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Ever wanted to handle dangerous chemicals but didn’t have access to the chemicals/valued your hands/were too afraid to ask? Chemical Spillage Simulation may be the game for you, all that mopping up fun but without the risk mutating into that thing at the end of Robocop.
You begin life as a lowly chemical spillage worker, putting out fires, wiping up spills and [unconfirmed:] wiping down ducks doused in detergent. From those humble beginnings you rise tin the ranks to command a whole fleet of spillage response vehicles, handling larger and more dangerous incidents.
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Till now the majority of MOBAs have followed the example of DOTA and set themselves in the fantasy genre, and in that instance it was largely in that setting because it was a mod for Warcraft 3. It’s welcoming, then, to see Bigpoint move away from the norm and restructure their game, Merc Elite, around a military setting (even if that is itself somewhat familiar for us gamers).
As you can from the trailer below, it’s bringing mechanics like realistic line of site and direct-fire control to freshen up the MOBA skeleton a tad, too.
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Progress on Sir, You Are Being Hunted is continuing at a chipper pace, with this weekend seeing a Kickstarter update announcing two new biomes being added to the world generation engine: fens and highlands.
Big Robot have also released a short video showing off the mountainous regions in action.
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As our Tim pointed out in his review, Warframe is a space oddity. A bewilderingly popular co-op shooter, it swiftly becomes as tired as my Kubrick joke thanks to some disastrous level design. But by handing the keys to the construction yard to its 2,000,000-strong userbase in a new update, however, developers Digital Extremes might just have taken a big step toward solving their biggest problem.
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When somebody tells Creative Assembly’s Al Bickham that Total War: Rome 2’s campaign map is big, he corrects them: “It’s colossal.” Its reach reportedly stretches from the westernmost point of Spain to ancient Afghanistan, Bactria, and from the British Isles right down to north Africa and the Nile. And what are Creative Assembly doing with all this new space they’ve afforded themselves? Something new.
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Well, that was a close-run thing. Despite a strong early showing, for the last few days we’ve been reduced to watching for signs of movement on the surface of Kickstarter, wondering if Flashback was ever going to surface again. And it did! As a consequence, Full Control’s fully-independent and faithful sequel to the venerable strategy RPG series will enter production before the end of the year.
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Left 4 Dead 2 has been in beta on Linux for a little while now, and is more-or-less ready to merge consciousness with its Windows counterpart. This week’s patch, then, is the first of many in which the two versions will share bullet points. It puts an end to a jockey exploit that made the giggling blighters a tad easier to deal with.
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Once a year, the UK games media gets together to shout at each other over twitter. Before that, there’s an awards ceremony called the Games Media Awards that highlights some of the best work coming out of UK journalists in print, online, video and everything else.
This year, we’re helping out a bit. There’s a student prize that’s trying to act as a talent spot called the Games Media Academy. The winner will be offered work to the value of £1250 across the four companies participating: IGN, Future, Intent and Network-N (us!).
The plan is that the winner will get some cash, some mentorship by some experienced editors, and a CV full of published work on three leading sites. And PCGamesN.
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I keep forgetting that Dota 2 hasn’t been released yet. And the reason I keep forgetting is that it’s more massive in beta than any of its rivals could hope to be on launch day. Apart from League of Legends, of course. But take yesterday. If you’d rounded up all the players of the other nine games in Steam’s top ten most-played list, they still wouldn’t have matched the total boasted by Valve’s MOBA.
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