steam early access
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Quick Impressions: Highrise City
Highrise City is a city-building game that is currently in Early Access. I tried out the demo some time ago and kept the game on my wishlist but only recently bought it during the Steam Summer Sale. The reviews compare it to Cities Skylines (obviously) and the Anno series. In Cities Skylines, all you need…
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Quick Impressions: Hamster Playground
I don’t remember when and how I stumbled over this game’s trailer, but it was so cute, it certainly stuck to my mind! And I also had to show it to bookahnerk at the time. Not long afterwards, the game released into Early Access. And it’s even free to play (with in-game purchases). But first…
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Quick Impressions: Noble Fates
Noble Fates is a colony building simulation game similar to RimWorld and Going Medieval, currently in Early Access on Steam. I recently bought it and despite liking “Lords and Villeins” more in the beginning, I have so far paused that one to explore Noble Fates further. Still, I haven’t been playing Noble Fates for that…
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Quick Impressions: Mini Healer
I had Mini Healer on my wishlist for a while now and always knew that I want to buy it! Now, I finally did. This game can be summed up quickly if you’re familiar with healing in MMOs like World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online (whack-a-mole style of healing, that is). You…
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Steam Next Festival (Oct 2021): More demos
After my last post about Gremlins Inc. – Card Game, I tried out a few more demos: Tavern Master, Inscryption, Who’s Lila? and House Flipper City. Tavern Master This is a game where you’re building a tavern – so basically a “city”-builder. Quite obviously, this made me check out the game. I quite liked it,…
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Steam Next Festival (Oct 2021): Gremlins Inc. – Card Game
Limited play time means that I need to be much pickier about which games I’m going to give a try during this week’s Steam Next Festival. It started on October 1 and ends on October 7, so I already missed a couple of days. However, when I saw the Gremlins Inc. – Card Game, I…
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A look at Project Gorgon (Jan 2021)
The comment by bhagpuss in my recent post about railroading in MMOs made me want to play a sandbox MMO again: “I do find it ironic that Classic WoW is now considered to have such a freewheeling, open attitude to questing and to be so non-directive and non-linear in its gameplay. […]” Of course, in…
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Parkasaurus Early Access: Where is the game now?
Parakasure went into early access on Steam in September 2018 (I wrote about my first impressions soon after). Thankfully, the game’s developers are still here and they are active and slowly, but steadily improving the game! Ever since Folk Tale, I have been more cautious when investing in early access games, though. Folk Tale’s developer…
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Screenshot Saturday: Dinosaurs!
I am still playing Tropico 6 while trying to figure out which class to play in Grim Dawn, but my Parkasaurus game had an update yesterday and I had to take a look. They are working on balancing the game which is definitely necessary since the game has been much too easy to play. Money…
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First impressions: Foundation
I admit, I didn’t even know Foundation existed until I bought it. It was bookahnerk who told me about it, showed it to me and suggested that I’d take a good look at the game because it could be something I’d really like to have. He was right, of course. He knows me too well.…
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New game: Foundation
I just couldn’t resist… another city-builder, Foundation, has joined my Steam library. Somehow, there is always space for one more of that genre.
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First Impressions: Parkasaurus (Early Access!)
Parkasaurus is a tycoon game where you get to build a dinosaur park. The game comes with cute comic graphics, but it has the depth that one would expect from a typical park-building game – or will have them at some point. It just launched into Early Acess today (with a price of 19.99 €),…
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Folk Tale: Where is it now? (March 2017)
Update (2020): This game can no longer be purchased. The developer is still MIA and this game has been abandoned since 2017. Update (June 27, 2017): The developer seems to have gone MIA. The last post in the game’s Steam Communiy Hub was posted on April 30, 2017. Before that, there were several posts each…
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Quick First Impressions Review: Northgard
I’ve promised to write down my impressions of Northgard on Twitter. The game released tonight, exactly two hours ago and since it is an early access game, you will not get my usual first impressions review, but a very quick first impressions review. :p I will – depending on the outcome of this first glance…
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Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (April 2016)
Fragmented, the “little brother” of The Repopulation will officially arrive in Steam Early Access soon, on April 26. If you already own The Repopulation, you will get Fragmented for free – or you already got access to it if you registered for pre-steam early access-access. :p Either way, there is still an NDA on the…
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