When Steam Greenlight was first announced, the idea seemed nice and simple. The Steam community would view and rate indie games, and the best would rise to the surface, ready to be fished out by Valve and given their own corner of the Steam Store. In reality, however, new batches of Greenlit games have been few and far between. It’s been so slow going that some games in the top 10 have sat unapproved for months.
The truth is this: Valve would like to Greenlight more games, but due to the way their tools are set up, they can’t. Not yet, anyway.
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After weeks of vote counting and recounting, with independent adjudicators being brought in from all over the country, silence has once again fallen on the court of Valve as the next set of games to be greenlit by the Greenlight community is announced.
Gabe stands before his golden lectern and bellows out each of the 18 games and two software titles names to the audience who waited with baited breath. Among the lucky winners are Mode7’s Frozen Endzone and RobotLovesKitty’s Legend of Dungeon.
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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.
I haven't put enough trenchcoats into my weekly Spotlights, nor have I featured enough espionage either. It's time to change that with Black Annex, an isometric game of hacking, sabotage and horribly deadly gunfights, all taking place in a bleak near-future. It's your chance to take charge of a team of special agents and engage in a little corporate espionage and some very bad business practices.
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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.
It's been a while since I had the chance to cover a particularly creepy game for our Spotlight. Sure, last week's The Gallery was definitely on the spookier side of moody, but Darkwood is something else, a Greenlight game that has one of the best YouTube trailers I've seen in a long time.
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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.
I don't usually get the chance to feature something that's technically remarkable in these Spotlights. Sure, there are games with great design, with a real sense of style or with some clever new concepts, but Greenlight doesn't tend to support very much in the way of sexy technology. I'm very pleased to report that The Gallery: Six Elements does because, as well as being an adventure game that you can play on your PC, it will also support the Oculus Rift. The Gallery's developers want to build a world for you to get lost in. Really lost.
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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.
This week I'm going to get excited about pixels. Are you ready? I don't care, because I already got excited. I'm excited about pixels and I'm excited about Hammerwatch, which is the most fun I've had with a Steam wannabe for quite some time.
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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.
I love procedural generation in games. Almost everyone who knows me knows this, because I never shut up about it. This means I tend to fall hard for roguelikes, for anything with endlessly reinvented levels, even for fractals. There's a lot of strategy and roleplaying games that feature random generation, but not so many first-person shooters. There is, however, Tower of Guns.
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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.
Remember how shooters used to be in vogue or how, once upon a time, we couldn’t move for flight sims? Now, we live in the age of the sandbox, the pixel playground. Planet Explorers is another game jostling for space amongst this ever more crowded scene, but this time around it isn’t all about blocks. Or, I should say, it isn’t so blatantly about blocks as there’s quite a lot more going on.
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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.
For
this week’s Spotlight I’ve chosen a game that I thought more people
would’ve heard of, the sort of game that I’d hope would have reached
further than it already has and yet it still remains almost unknown.
That game is The Few and I think it shows a lot of potential. Strap in and fix your goggles, this is going to be an exciting Spotlight.
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Valve have once more swooped down from their castle's keep to select the most popular fatted calves, bring them back within their walls, and offer them up to be feasted upon by we, the customer. Among the tasty ewes this time are recently-made-popular-by-its-Pirate-Bay-ads Anodyne, neon-infused driving game Distance, the brutal QWOP-esque Surgeon Simulator 2013.
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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, so why not check out our back catalogue?
Conquest
is a game of hexes. It’s a strategy game, a game of turns, of nudging
units, of stroking chins and/or beards, but you know what? It certainly
isn’t slow and it’s also pretty damn cool. It hits that sweet spot of
being easy to pick up, but difficult to master, and that’s why I’m
shining this week’s Spotlight on Greenlight upon it.Read and Comment
Welcome back to our regular weekend Spotlight on Greenlight, a feature that took a little time off alongside me, but which now returns to shine brighter than ever upon the best and the most interesting indie titles that sit amongst the pages of Steam Greenlight.
This week, I’ll be looking back at five already greenlit games and seeing how they’re doing now. When an aspiring Steam game is greenlit, there’s a temptation to think that everything is all done and dusted. That the game is in the bag, ready and waiting and that we’ll see it available online soon. This isn’t necessarily the case, and while some Greenlight games are already on general release, others still have quite some way to go.
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Valve released an update for indie groundswell voting system Steam Greenlight early this morning. As a consequence, developers will see more detailed stats, ‘collections’ should prove more useful, and your vote queue will become more manageable.Read and Comment
This week I'm going to shine the Spotlight on just one game in particular, and it's a game that, uh, technically isn't even on Greenlight yet. But bear with me here, all will make sense. I'm going to show you Space Shock.
When
it comes to PC gaming, there’s never anything wrong with challenging
some assumptions or shaking up the norm, and Space Shock asks some very
important questions about some pretty entrenched gaming conventions. For
example, why do dungeon crawlers have to be set in a fantasy land? And
what really counts as a dungeon anyway? Would the dimly-lit corridors of
a gigantic starship offer the same opportunity for exploration,
adventure and laser combat? I think you know where questions like this
are leading and I think you know what kind of a game Space Shock is
going to be. Better suit up and get ready, because we’re going to take a
closer look.Read and Comment
My apologies to you if this week's Spotlight on Greenlight experiences a few technical difficulties. The UK has seen some snowfall and it's thrown our country into chaos, bringing transport to a halt and quite possibly causing the internet to freeze up. If this Spotlight seems unusually rigid or feels chilly to the touch, I'd suggest gently heating your web browser for a few minutes, perhaps by microwaving your PC or slipping it into a toaster.
All sorted? Good, then let us proceed.Read and Comment
Hello, good evening and welcome to this week's Spotlight on Greenlight, which sees me rounding up five more of Greenlight's most interesting games, something I do by barking at them until they all scurry into a special pen which is quickly and deftly closed by our Julian. Then I get to work, shearing all the information I can off them, stuffing all this into a bag and then weaving it together into posts like this, which I proudly wear before you. This week I've got space trading, satire and survival horror, but before we get to those I'm going to start with something apocalyptic.Read and Comment
Following a much-needed break after all that Christmas excess, the spotlight is ready to shine once more on five of Steam Greenlight's most interesting titles. This week I've got an MMO, a bird, some zombies, a 2D sandbox game and golf. That's right, golf. I make no apologies for that, either.
Tell me when you're ready, click through and we'll begin.Read and Comment
If you haven't yet heard of War Thunder then... well, you probably have now, what with that headline and with this feature. What I mean to say is that you may well be hearing a lot more about it soon, too. Developers Gaijin Entertainment, the creators of Wings of Prey, say that over half a million players have participated in the closed beta for their World War 2 MMO and fans have been pushing for them to get the game onto Steam. So be it, said Gaijin, we'll give it a shot.
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Welcome to an extra special Spotlight on Greenlight celebrating this holiday
season. This week I’ve had a good rummage around inside the Greenlight
sack and pulled forth twelve titles, old and new, to celebrate the
Twelve Days of Christmas. Some of these games have been on Greenlight
since the summer and, I’m sad to say, may have long been forgotten, though they never deserved to be. Every game in this roundup is well worth your looking at and, I believe, voting for on Greenlight. Every game except one, anyway...
To make sure we never forget any game again, old or new,
I’ve come up with a mnemonic that we can all join in with. I’ve decided
to associate each title in this week’s Spotlight with something
Christmassy. Isn’t that exciting? It’s like a kind of game! ...Right?
Oh God, I’m so alone.Read and Comment
Ah, hello! It's good to see you again. Why don't you take a seat? I do enjoy these Saturdays that we spend together, where I get to share with you five more of the best and most interesting games vying for our votes on Steam Greenlight. I've spent another week looking through dozens of pitches and these are my new favourites. Sorry, Farm Machines Championships, you didn't make the cut.
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