In Drill Core, you become the manager of a mining platform. Your task is to drill to the core of alien planets and extract precious minerals. You’ll recruit miners, carriers, and guards, carefully manage resources, and plan the most efficient drilling routes to keep operations running smoothly. While cutting-edge drills and technology help you carve through rock, each planet harbors a unique ecosystem with its own challenges, from hostile creatures to unpredictable terrain.

Since its Early Access debut on September 12, 2024, Drill Core has been shaped by direct community feedback, gaining new biomes and tweaks for tighter roguelite gameplay in less than a year. Version 1.0 arrives with more platforms, challenges, and content, with development continuing even after the game’s official release.

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Inspired by the enchanting worlds of Studio Ghibli, this title blends nostalgic charm with modern simulation mechanics. The story follows the transformation of a run-down intergalactic hotel on a magical floating island into a thriving tourist hub, guided by the spirit of Grandpa Gustav, who seeks redemption in a tale filled with lost love and revenge.

The game is built around three core pillars: construction and customization, resource management, and exploration and crafting. Running the hotel involves hiring and overseeing a diverse alien workforce while balancing their needs with guest satisfaction. Exploration allows players to gather extraterrestrial resources, cultivate gardens, and delve into underground complexes to unlock new materials, tools, and technologies.

The full version of Hotel Galactic is set to launch in 2025 for PC (Steam), PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, though exact console release dates have yet to be confirmed.

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In Wizdom Academy, you take on the role of Headmaster, tasked with building and managing a thriving magical academy. The game offers a unique blend of colony management, resource gathering, and wizard training, all set in a vibrant 3D world. You can design classrooms, dorms, exploration halls, and mana storage facilities, creating a fully functional and visually stunning academy.

Recruits must be put to work harvesting rare resources, while students are guided from apprentices to elite sorcerers. Each wizard’s abilities and destiny can be shaped, adding a personal touch to the academy’s growth. The world of Wizdom Academy is also filled with opportunities for exploration and alliances. You can uncover hidden dungeons, interact with nearby villages, and defend against hordes of enemies.

The upcoming Steam Next Fest (February 24 – March 3) offers the perfect opportunity to try the game’s latest demo. Featuring new mechanics and content, the demo provides a taste of what’s to come when Wizdom Academy launches in Early Access in April.

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In Ale Abbey you can hop into the role of a medieval brewmaster and take on the responsibility of running a quaint abbey with big ambitions. Give your brew an unique name, experiment to discover special traits, and ensure your ales reach unprecedented popularity. Dive into a vast array of over 20 European styles, meticulously choosing the equipment that best suits your needs. Adjust the quantity, quality, and mash temperature to blend the perfect brew. Put your trust in your monks’ brewing skills, and let them create the holy ale.

Build living quarters for your holy crew, production hubs like Libraries and Breweries, and some all-purpose spaces, including the Refectory and the Abbot’s Office. But remember: it’s not only about crafting ales, but also curating a brewing legacy. At Ale Abbey happy monks will need more than just a good workplace – they will require a steady flow of tasty ales. But that’s not all! Appease Lords, befriend neighboring Abbeys, and handle bandit encounters.

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The space property development game Space for Sale will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam this summer, priced at $29.99 / £24.99 / €29.99, publisher THQ Nordic and developer Mirage Game Studios have announced.

For those who are unfamiliar, Space for Sale follows the journey of an intergalactic real estate owner on a mission to build hospitable apartments, comfortable accommodations, and luxurious estates. As the game progresses, your list of alien clients will grow, as will their demands. The real estate market depends on location, so you'll explore the wonders across your solar system and try to turn them into profitable projects.

The game features a procedurally generated landscape, allowing you to explore picturesque environments on multiple planets. By observing and experimenting, you can attract buyers. Therefore, it's crucial to understand their conditions to best adapt them to specific biomes and win them over. Additionally, Space for Sale supports two-player multiplayer, allowing you to play drop-in/drop-out mod with friends.

In a recently released dev log, lead artist Toby and game director Simon from Mirage Game Studios discussed significant changes the studio had to implement to transform Space for Sale into an Early Access release. They also highlight its replayability factor, the planet completion process, and their broader focus on building a community around the game. You can see exactly what they said in the trailer below.

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Players take on the role of a space colony leader tasked with building and managing a prosperous colony on planets beyond Earth. Each planet presents a unique set of challenges with procedurally generated environments, ores, and events that test the player's ability to adapt and strategize, from hostile terrain to unpredictable disasters.

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Stellar Settlers introduces unique vertical space base building mechanics, allowing players to creatively plan the layout of their colony. With horizontal and vertical linking of base pods, each with different functions, durability and cost, players can mine resources and expand their base to ensure the safety and prosperity of their settlers.

The demo version provides a glimpse into the game's universe, showcasing one of the carefully crafted enemy planets, each requiring a unique approach to overcome challenges. The full version of the game, slated for release later this year, will expand to 5 different planets when it goes into Early Access.

This title should be available on PC via Steam as an Early Access version in March 2024, and later in the year on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch platforms.

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Players can manage a budding noble family and navigate through the trials of a class-based society that includes everything from crime to slave revolts and religious conflict to economic crisis, alongside a wide range of personal feuds, treachery, secret murders, and spectacular battles. On top of that, players will need to contend with neighboring kingdoms, dealing in matters of diplomacy, trade, disputes, alliances, and even the creation of vassal states.

“Partnering with Hooded Horse will allow us to focus on development by relieving us of various non-development tasks such as marketing, localization, trailer creation, and other responsibilities. With this support, we aim to deliver a more polished and content-rich game to players in May", said Dmitry Glaznev, Norland game designer and head of Long Jaunt studio.

Norland should be released on PC via Steam Early Access in May 2024. You can read our interview with Dmitry here.

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Stray Fawn joined the ranks of indie publishers in March 2023 with their first partner game, Earth of Oryn, a medieval kingdom-building title, followed by Airborne Empire in June 2023. Both games reached 50,000 Steam wishlists and launched is expected later this year. With Flotsam, developed by award-winning Belgian studio Pajama Llama, as the third game in its publishing line, Stray Fawn will further strengthen its commitment to the city-builder genre.

Flotsam launched in early access in September 2019 and has been continuously improved and expanded thanks to player feedback. With this publishing deal, Pajama Llama will successfully be able to add controller support, new content, an improved tutorial as well as the long-awaited story ending. Version 1.0 is expected to be released this summer.

It's a relaxing city-builder and survival game where players oversee a group of drifters navigating the polluted ocean on their mobile floating city. Since the ecological approach is quite important in this game, players will recycle garbage in workshops and desalinize water to provide their population fresh water and shelter. Flotsam aims to create an ever-changing world, with different biomes and landmarks. This means that you will go through a dynamic environment while managing energy through fossil or sustainable generators.

More information about Floatsam can be found on Steam.

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In Pioneers of Pagonia, players set out into a world of countless islands to find lost tribes, help each other, and overcome the challenges together. All goods transports, production processes, and discoveries of the population are presented through beautiful animations and can be followed from start to finish, making Pioneers of Pagonia accessible for all age groups.

Not only will disguised thieves and bandit raids on transports make life difficult for pioneers, but spectral manifestations and creatures of the night are up to mischief in Pagonia, turning good-natured Pagonians into werewolves and bringing construction to a complete standstill. Each of the four enemy types available in the Early Access build can be countered with different strategies and units. Additional enemies and units will be added during the Early Access period.

Additionally, Pioneers will encounter neutral factions on the Pagonian islands that need help, each with specific goals to complete in order to win a map. In return for the player’s aid, the villages of these factions provide support with helpful trade offers and even gifts. It’s also possible to merge and take over all buildings, inhabitants, and goods if the faction's trust has been won completely.

The Envision Entertainment team paid particular attention to the map generator. All settings can be changed in detail, from the size of the island to the prevailing landscape, the number and difficulty of the enemies, and the tasks to be completed. From relaxed, peaceful pioneering to extreme challenges, every level of difficulty is possible and can be set individually at the start of each new map. Thanks to the procedurally generated maps, countless variations and hundreds of hours of fun are possible.

Further game content is planned at regular intervals throughout the Early Access period. Three major updates will arrive over the next few months, including a shared co-op mode, extended production statistics, underground mining, and the fishing hut, one of the most requested buildings from the community.

Pioneers of Pagonia is available today on Steam in the Early Access version for 29.99 EUR / 29.99 USD.

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In the game, we will collect resources, build estates and sell them to eccentric alien clients for a large profit. We will have to find creative ways to meet the increasing demands of our customers. Also, the goal is to tame and explore flora and dangerous fauna and learn from them on how to improve your creations to withstand even the harshest biomes.

The worlds in Space for Sale are procedurally generated, so you'll never run out of new things to discover and new places to build. Exploration is just as big a part of the game as building, and you'll also be able to delve into the backstories of the worlds you acquired for the cheap price. By observing the local life forms and adapting to their ways, you can find new ways to build and be able to use the unique features of your planets to your advantage.

In addition to its single-player mode, Space for Sale offers an outstanding online co-op experience for two players, enabling you and a companion to seamlessly drop in and out of the game. Only the host's world will retain the progress, and only the host can save the game, though both players have access to the same elements and will earn achievements together. If you start a new world, you start from the beginning.

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