This Week in Gaming (Week 20)

[TheLostSwede]

As we enter the middle of May, this week's major release—which is hard to call a AAA title—is all about humans and a dog. The rest of this coming week's releases is a mix of everything from action RPGs and alien bugs to laboratory experiments and Lego. Could there be something here for you? Read on to find out.

Humanity / This week's big release and VR game / Tuesday 16 May
A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or browse a wide array of user-made levels crafted via the in-game Stage Creator!




Trail of Ayash / Monday 15 May
Trail of Ayash is an innovative and exciting open world game focused on the indigenous people, their struggles. Our world is a unique version of the lands dominated by the myths and legends of Its Inhabitants. Various tribes interact with one another, engaging in diplomacy, war, and expansion.



Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Return of Rome / This week's DLC / Tuesday 16 May
Welcome to Return of Rome, a completely new type of expansion pack which brings Age of Empires, the title that started it all, into Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition as a brand new self-contained experience. This new expansion will allow you to challenge friends with the original sixteen Age of Empires civilizations—plus one brand-new Return of Rome exclusive civilization, the Lac Viet—and relive the triumph and trials of antiquity.



Starship Troopers: Extermination / Wednesday 17 May
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off front lines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper set to take back planets claimed by the Arachnid threat!



The Outlast Trials / Thursday 18 May
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?



LEGO 2K Drive / Friday 19 May
Welcome to Bricklandia, home of a massive open-world LEGO driving adventure. Race anywhere, play with anyone, build your dream rides, and defeat a cast of wild racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy!

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[Dristun]

Lego 2K Drive - finally a kart racer that looks as fast as Sonic All-Stars and has cross-platform multiplayer. Hot Wheels Unleashed was fun but died on day1 on PC.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Lego 2K Drive - finally a kart racer that looks as fast as Sonic All-Stars and has cross-platform multiplayer. Hot Wheels Unleashed was fun but died on day1 on PC.

What worries me is that I doubt the game actually will allow you to build whatever you want instead of just ya know...premade lego sets.

 

[Dristun]

What worries me is that I doubt the game actually will allow you to build whatever you want instead of just ya know...premade lego sets.

From what I've seen there are templates for the wheelbases on top of which you are free to slap any bricks you own (for the most part) within the detail limit. So you can't build a racing skyscraper but building some ghetto or silly "4 year old without instructions" racers is possible, lol.

 

[MarsM4N]

This one is a easy pick. Thought the game came out months ago, but it was Starship Troopers: Terran Command, a RTS'ish game. Was skeptical at first of this one, but after checking the STEAM page the game could really become something (it's Early Access). It's developed by Offworld Industries, who also developed Squad. So they know "how to FPS" on a big scale. Really great to see they finally make something out of the franchise, has tons of potential. Folks getting tired of zombies.

Lego 2K Drive - finally a kart racer that looks as fast as Sonic All-Stars and has cross-platform multiplayer. Hot Wheels Unleashed was fun but died on day1 on PC.

100 players online right now, lol. Which is no surprise. Just look at their insane pricing. 67 DLC's, they are really trying hard to milk us. Don't think it will recover, even after fire sales.

 

[Bomby569]

i played the humanity demo, this game is so good and fun

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

i played the humanity demo, this game is so good and fun

Does it feel like Lemmings?

 

[Dristun]

100 players online right now, lol. Which is no surprise. Just look at their insane pricing. 67 DLC's, they are really trying hard to milk us. Don't think it will recover, even after fire sales.

Really struggling to wrap my head around this, haha. Paying for cosmetic pixels you can't even show off in multiplayer! Someone needs to go back in time and stop Todd Howard from shipping horse armor dlc.

 

[Bomby569]

Does it feel like Lemmings?

kind of, yes, in the spirit, but gameplay is very different.

 

[Deleted member 230939]

Starship Troopers!

 

[SN2716057]

I kinda like the lemmings game with meat bags. How many can I kill... I mean lead?
The Starship Troopers looks promising but it's co-op only..it should be 64 vs npc.
The horror game looks good too, so it's on my wish list.
As for the Lego game I'll most likely play at a friends place.

 

[L'Eliminateur]

i'm super interested in starship trooper, partly because i'm a cheesy ST fan and partly because i want more coop games, i'm tired of pvp nonsense and all coop games lately are utter trash or very old, i can't even remember when the last good tower defence game came out(classic coop TD, without reinventing the wheel and without pvp)

 

[lexluthermiester]

My vote for Starship Troopers is conditional on being on GOG.

 

[Fergutor]

The old Starship Troopers game, from 2005, which was story based, also had a cooperative mode, which was great, and I remember it looking extremely similar to this one...
...Still, great!