We show you the most exciting Steam releases of the week. In store: great stories, pirates, role-playing games and much more.
This week, Steam is once again offering a host of fresh new releases that are waiting to be added to your wishlist – and as every Monday, we are introducing you to the most exciting releases. Among other things, this time a potential story highlight, a wild pirate adventure and many smaller gems await you.
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Highlight of the week: Lost Records
(Genre: Adventure – Developer: Don’t Nod – Release: February 18 (Steam)
With Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is the next adventure from Don’t Nod, the creators of story highlights like Life is Strange and Banishers.
You experience the summer of 1995 as Swann, an introverted teenager who forms a punk band with her friends – but then something happens that drives the friends apart. The game alternates between 1995 and 2022, with your decisions in both timelines influencing the course of the story.
A central element of the game is Swann’s camcorder, which you use to explore and record the town of Velvet Cove. The game’s conversations are designed to be dynamic, allowing you to interrupt or simply remain silent, which in turn influences your relationships and the course of the story.
Note:; The game will be released in two episodes, Tape 1: Bloom on February 18, 2025 and Tape 2: Rage on April 15, 2025.
More exciting Steam releases this week
Monday, February 17
- Cinema Simulator 2025 (Early Access): In this management game, you take control of a movie theater, plan screenings, manage staff and take care of your guests to expand your cinema into an industry giant. Finally, the cult classic Hollywood Pictures from 1995 has some competition!
Tuesday, February 18
- Ale Abbey (Early Access): In the Brewery Simulator, you not only brew holy beers, you also build your own monastery. You can create your own recipes by tweaking various parameters such as the mash quality.
- Microtopia: You take control of a colony of robot ants, lay pheromone trails to automate supply routes, collect resources, produce goods and expand your colony to spread the species. Quasi Factorio with ants.
- The Silent Kingdom (Early Access): In this mix of role-playing game and visual novel, you take on the role of Princess Erinys, who must forfeit her own soul to save her kingdom.
- Never Second in Rome (Early Access): This role-playing game with management elements lets you take on the role of a Roman centurion in Julius Caesar’s army and lead your unit through real historical battles.
- Avowed: The new role-playing game from Obsidian impressed us in our test with its half-open game world – now it is also being released for all buyers of the standard version and GamePass subscribers.
Thursday, February 20
- Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog: A sci-fi text adventure game with a retro aesthetic in which you play a security officer on board a patrol ship investigating a mysterious threat in space.
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii: In the latest Yakuza installment, you wake up on an island near Hawaii with no memories and become a pirate captain. There’s fighting, there are sea battles, and of course, karaoke is a must in a Yakuza title.
Friday, February 21
- Peripeteia (Early Access): In this first-person role-playing game with stealth elements, set in an alternative, cyberpunk Poland full of corruption and opportunity, you take on the role of a cybernetic super soldier.
- Die in the Dungeon (Early Access): A roguelite RPG in the vein of Slay the Spire, where you fight your way through a multi-level dungeon with dice instead of cards.
Which game piqued your interest this week? Are you planning a trip back to the ’90s with Lost Records, or are you heading to Hawaii with the new Yakuza instead? Were you just looking forward to the Gamepass release of Avowed? Or are you just waiting for Monster Hunter WIlds to finally come out next week? Let us know in the comments section!
