Games: Steam Deck, Starmancer, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 17, 2023

• Steam Spring Sale is live, Steam Deck gets a discount and startup movie customization

  The 2023 Steam Spring Sale is now live, and with it Valve has put the Steam Deck on sale for the first time.

• Space colony building sim Starmancer gets a huge content upgrade

  After quite a while of waiting, Ominux Games have released The Wilderness update for space colony building sim Starmancer. This is the first proper update to the game since early 2022, and it needed it because it was very Early Access, although it was clearly going in the right direction.

• Get a whole bunch of kart racers in this latest game bundle

  Humble Bundle have put up another game bundle full of treats, this time a whole bunch of indie kart racers to speed through. As I usually do, I'll go over each title individually and list the rating for Steam Deck, along with ProtonDB rating for Desktop users to save you some clicking around.

• Upcoming base-building RTS 'Dying Breed' set after a WW2 nuclear holocaust

  Set in an alternate timeline where WW2 ended in a full nuclear holocaust, the classic base-building RTS named Dying Breed is worth keeping an eye on. You can even try a demo right now. The world has found peace but there's a strange new energy source emerging from underground, and so naturally a fight is brewing over it with you being able to enter the world as either human or mutant-cyborgs.

• Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot looks like a fun time

  Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot is a fresh announcement from Konfa Games and TinyBuild, a spin-off from their earlier game Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator that I quite enjoyed. This time it's going to be an action rogue-lite, and it could be pretty chaotic from the screenshots.

• Steam Deck hitting retail in Hong Kong, Taiwan and later Japan and South Korea

  Valve's partner Komodo has announced they've teamed up with Acer, as they're bringing the Steam Deck to retail stores in Asia.

• Valheim got a big patch with performance upgrades and controller improvements

  Valheim continues to get improvements and it's easily one of my favourite survival games, it's just fantastic with a couple of friends. This new update should make it even better.

• Steam Deck and desktop Steam upgraded with LAN transfers out of Beta

  A fresh big stable update to the Steam Client has rolled out for Steam Deck and desktop Steam, bringing with it the useful LAN transfer feature.