A cornucopia of absolutely lovely looking new and upcoming games.
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The cancellation of a bunch of conventions this year due to the coronavirus pandemic stinks for the big publishers, but it hurts indies the most. Indies on PC really only prosper via word of mouth, so they need those convention-goers to learn about their games. Nonrefundable airline tickets suck, to boot.
<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127610/Iris_and_the_Giant/" target="_blank">Iris and the Giant</a> is newly released card game where you build a deck, but the cards are destroyed when they're used. It's quite hard.
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/768520/The_Red_Solstice_2_Survivors/" target="_blank">The Red Solstice 2: Survivors</a> is an isometric survival shooter based on one of my favorite Warcraft 3 custom maps (and its successor games.)
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037120/Mutropolis/" target="_blank">Mutropolis</a> is an adventure game about archaeologists in the 50th century.
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067540/Rki/" target="_blank">Röki</a> is an adventure game inspired by Scandinavian folklore.
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/869350/Because_Were_Here__Act_I/" target="_blank">Because We're Here</a> is a World War 1 inspired visual novel about love and war.
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1204410/Kosmokrats/" target="_blank">Kosmokrats</a> is a zero-g puzzle game.
The Falconeer is a fantasy air combat game. (Image credit: Tomas Solas)
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<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135260/The_Falconeer/" target="_blank">The Falconeer</a> is a fantasy air combat game.
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
