Sunday, March 2nd 2025

This Week in Gaming (Week 10)

Welcome to the month of March and a week when almost every single new game launches on a Thursday. This week's major release is a new 5v5 FPS shooter set in a Sci-Fi world. This is followed by alien planet colony management, a spot of museum curation, working as a car mechanic, doing battle with your best buddy in multiple imaginary worlds, with the week finally ending with some more co-op action, but puppet sized. We have four more games included at the end, but that's only a few of the games launching this Thursday.

FragPunk / This week's major release / Thursday 6 March
FragPunk is a fast-paced 5v5 hero shooter with powerup cards that change the rules of each round. Choose your hero, your weapons, and pick from a selection of cards that dramatically change the rules of engagement. Steam link
Deep Space Directive / Monday 3 March / Early access
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one. Steam link
Two Point Museum / Tuesday 4 March
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits Steam link
Car Mechanic Shop Simulator / Wednesday 5 March
Manage a prosperous car shop empire and enter the complex car maintenance and repair world. This simulation game offers a comprehensive, in-depth experience that combines strategic business management with the technical nuances of car maintenance. Steam link
Split Fiction / Thursday 6 March
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you're pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op action adventure from the studio behind 2021 Game of the Year Winner, It Takes Two. Mio and Zoe are contrasting writers - one writes sci-fi and the other writes fantasy - who become trapped in their own stories after being hooked up to a machine designed to steal their creative ideas. Steam link
Myrmidon / Friday 7 March
Invite a friend online and embark on a puzzle-platformer adventure exploring the bond between an animator and his puppet. Work together to clear obstacles across the sprawling sets of a stop-motion animation workshop and find out to what lengths the power of imagination can take you. Steam link
This week's other releases: Carmen Sandiego, Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, Dragonkin: The Banished, Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone





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13 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 10)

#1
Hyderz
Suikoden!!!! One of the greats jrpgs
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#2
Dragokar
I am looking forward to Split Fiction :)
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#3
Daven
Frag Punk mentions Geforce and Arc in its requirements but no Radeon. Sigh.
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#4
Onasi
So… Are we taking bets on how long FragPunk will hold on before the servers are shut down? Hero shooters seem to be a genre with a very high game mortality rate.
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#5
Klemc
DavenFrag Punk mentions Geforce and Arc in its requirements but no Radeon. Sigh.
It's not PC anymore, PC should handle any gardware.
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#6
Drash
Haven't seen my wife since the early access of TP Museum arrived - she loves everything Two Point! Looks fun but complicated.
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#7
TheLostSwede
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OnasiSo… Are we taking bets on how long FragPunk will hold on before the servers are shut down? Hero shooters seem to be a genre with a very high game mortality rate.
It could also be because the developers do the opposite of what the players are asking for?
I mean, just look at Overwatch, Blizzard killed that baby on their own.
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#8
Raiju
Car Mechanic Shop Simulator = My Supermarket Simulator 3D windows port & reskin ?
It's really striking me how the UI and mechanics are exactly the same.
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#9
Onasi
TheLostSwedeI mean, just look at Overwatch, Blizzard killed that baby on their own.
OW is still alive and kicking. Even came back to China. The whole drama around the PvE cancellation was fairly overblown, if understandable. I remember Monte talking about player numbers on a podcast talking about the death of OWL and they were fairly stable, around Valorant numbers. OW is far from being dead. When I talk about mortality rates I mean things like Gundam, Lawbreakers, Concord, Battleborn - the real flops.
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TheLostSwede
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RaijuCar Mechanic Shop Simulator = My Supermarket Simulator 3D windows port & reskin ?
It's really striking me how the UI and mechanics are exactly the same.
It was the best of a really bad bunch that day.
I guess I could've gone with:
store.steampowered.com/app/3241030/Hack_and_Slash_Fury/
Or:
store.steampowered.com/app/3447690/iDigging/
Or maybe:
store.steampowered.com/app/2969180/Steel_Century_Groove_Midnight/
OnasiOW is still alive and kicking. Even came back to China. The whole drama around the PvE cancellation was fairly overblown, if understandable. I remember Monte talking about player numbers on a podcast talking about the death of OWL and they were fairly stable, around Valorant numbers. OW is far from being dead. When I talk about mortality rates I mean things like Gundam, Lawbreakers, Concord, Battleborn - the real flops.
Overwatch is dead, I think you mean Overwatch 2 is still barely alive and kicking. Everyone I played with gave up a long time ago.
Similar things happened to Apex Legends, which became a "pro" cheater only game, as it really became impossible to keep up with the cheaters at one point.
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#11
mechtech
Anyone else thinks this one looks strange?
-8-bit toons
-? bit world gen
-shadows from 8-bit toons?

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#12
Hyderz
mechtechAnyone else thinks this one looks strange?
-8-bit toons
-? bit world gen
-shadows from 8-bit toons?

The screenshot looked a bit off but the trailer which shows the fight looked okay when it pans around

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#13
Caring1
A car Mechanic with a white T-shirt, tells me he's never been under a car in his life. :kookoo:
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