Mark of the Deep

• Developer: Mad Mimic
• Publisher: Light Up Games
• Release Date: Out Now on PC!
• Platforms: PC(Steam), Xbox One and Series, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch

Mark of the Deep mixes the classic exploration and progression of Metroidvanias with challenging souls-like combat in a fantasy pirate setting. With an isometric point of view, you play as Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey, recently shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Using his new powers as a Mark Keeper, Marcus must fight his way across this cursed landscape in search of his crewmates; the Angry Mermaids!

Unlock new abilities and upgrades to defeat a variety of enemies, traverse diverse biomes, and discover new paths. Explore every corner to find secrets, and contend with over a dozen bosses. Gather Marcus’ crewmates, uncover the mystery of the island, and lift its curse to escape back to the high seas!

Crewed by a fully-voiced cast of characters, complete quests and make difficult decisions that will be reflected in the world around you. Cut your path through handcrafted environments to several endings. It’s nice to see the much overlooked pirate aesthetic getting some wind in its sails!

Demo available on PC(Steam).

LOK Digital

• Developer: Icedrop Games, Letibus Design
• Publisher: Draknek and Friends
• Release Date: Out Now!
• Platforms: PC(Steam) and Mobile

LOK Digital is a word based puzzle game that challenges the player to “learn a cryptic language of magical words and master their mind-bending effects.” Build up your vocabulary and understanding of each word’s world-altering powers over 150 plus levels, and help the LOK creatures thrive!

The game is split up into 15 different worlds, each of which introduces a new mechanic that will change the way you solve puzzles. Keep testing yourself with expertly crafted daily puzzles, and compete with your friends, family and the world on the daily leaderboards.

Inspired by the original puzzle book created by Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design), LOK Digital is a satisfying blend of intuitive design, a simple but elegant hand drawn art style, and a meditative soundtrack. With its recent release onto mobile devices, LOK Digital is sure to provide hours of pleasurable problem-solving.

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Dynasty Warriors: Origins

• Developer: Koei Tecmo Games, Omega Force
• Publisher: Koei Tecmo
• Release Date: Out Now!
• Platforms: PC(Steam), Xbox Series, and PlayStation5

Experience the exhilarating battles of the Three Kingdoms as a “nameless hero” in the newest entry into the Dynasty Warriors franchise. Dynasty Warriors Origins is a hack-and-slash spectacle fighter set on the battlefields of war-torn China, where your decisions will change the course of battle.

Featuring a reworked combat system that introduces new mechanics like parrying and dodging, along side classic Musou Attacks. Use “Tactics” to order nearby allies to perform certain actions like cavalry charges, and execute “Grand Tactics” at crucial moments to devastating effect. Dynasty Warriors Origins also sees the return of a fan favourite “Duels”, and the mysterious “Eye of the Sacred Bird” which grants the protagonist the ability to see magical meddling.

Charge into battle with a NPC companion who you can switch to at will, and arm yourself with a variety of weapons, including swords, spears, gauntlets, wheels, twin pikes, and lances to name a few. Traverse the world map to experience the story of the Three Kingdoms, or undertake “Skirmishes” and “Missions” for some smaller scale battles. Purchase weapons with various traits from towns you visit, or find them out on the field of battle. Build “Bonds” with many officers, famous figures from the period of the Three Kingdoms. Choose who you will walk with in pursuit of reuniting China!

Demo available on PC(Steam), Xbox, and PlayStation.

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders

• Developer and Publisher: Megagon Industries
• Release Date: Out Now!
• Platforms: PC(Steam) and Xbox Series

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, the follow up to 2019’s Lonely Mountains: Downhill, has you moving further up the mountain to the snowy slopes. Take in the beautiful, serene environment as you cut through the snow trying your best not to crash, again. If you want to hear our thoughts on the game, check out our review.

Snow Riders also brings a new major feature to the series: online cross-platform multiplayer! Now you can hit the slopes with up to seven others, working in teams and managing your limited time gates, or in a race to see who is king of the (snowy) hill!

Unlock new outfits, equipment and tricks to take out and show off on your next run down the mountain. Try to beat your best time and climb the leaderboard, find sneaky shortcuts as you as explore the slopes, or find a relaxing, out-of-the-way spot to just chill out.

Check out our review of the full release HERE.

Demo Available on PC(Steam).

Lorn’s Lure

• Developer & Publisher: Rubeki Games
• Release Date: Out Now!
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Traverse the expanse of a vast and forboding structure in Lorn’s Lure, an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer. You are an android, led through this unwelcoming labyrinth of stone and metal by a technical glitch. With no way to return to your home colony, your only option is to persevere and discover where you are being led, and maybe why you left in the first place.

With a unique “climb everything” traversal mechanic, where you use a pair of ice axes to navigate this dangerous, uncaring environment. As you jump, climb, and slide through this unknowable structure you will uncover cryptic lore wiith your scanner. While there are challenging sections to overcome, you will never be punished for failing; there is always a path forward.

The modernised 90’s PC visuals enhance the game’s oppresive atmosphere, like you’ve stumbled upon a world lost in time. Lorn’s Lure invites players of all sorts to experience this harrowing place, from the cautious explorer to the confident speedrunner. What will you discover in this inconceivable structure?

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Astral Throne

• Developer & Publisher: Zero Sun Games
• Release Date: Feb 7, 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Astral Throne is a blend of strategy RPG with Roguelike elements changing your path and the character interactions. If you took Fire Emblem and mixed it with Slay the Spire just with less cards, you’d get this demo. In this demo you choose a primary and a secondary character from four available characters. 

While each run seems to start the same to get you the basics of the game and seeing the characters interact, once you finish your first encounter you’ll be introduced to Roguelike elements of choosing your path on the map. As your characters level up, you’ll choose from a variety of skills for your character, another roguelike element as the skills will not always be the same. You can also add to your party by hiring recruitable characters during the fights and help turn the tide of battle. The characters who appear will not always be the same. 

Based on all of your above choices, the story will branch into different directions ensuring that your playthroughs will not be the same. Find the combinations that work for you and see what the best build you can make are. If waiting for the next Fire Emblem feels too long and Slay the Spire 2 is too far away, check out the demo for Astral Throne available now.

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Bionic Bay

• Developers: Mureena Oy, Psychoflow Studio
• Publisher: Kepler Interactive
• Release Date: March 13th 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam) and PlayStation 5

Bionic Bay is a 2D puzzle platformer where you play as a scientist trying to escape an ancient biomechanical world using a cutting-edge teleportation device. Use this powerful tech and your wits to navigate treacherous environments filled with traps and secrets.

Master a unique swap mechanic that let’s you switch places with other objects, in a world governed by a realistic physics system. Learn how to wield these mechanics in tandem to world changing effects, like reversing gravity or swapping places with an enemy. Be careful, because even with these impressive powers, there are plenty of ways to be burned, frozen, blown up, or vaporized. Put your skills to the test against the world in a competitive online mode with regular new events, and design your own scientist to stand out amongst the other geeks.

Incredible high density pixel art in a range of scintillating colours brings this beautiful world of nature and machines to life. Each biome is filled with sharp details and rich world building, an epic world waiting to be explored.

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Palm Cracker

• Developer: Peter Malmehed
• Publisher: Jösses
• Release Date: March 21st 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Can you solve the mystery of the Crypt Killer? After acquiring a PalmPilot from the most famous serial-killer of the century, the answers are in the palm of your hand! Solo developed and upgraded from its original release on the Newgrounds website, Palm Cracker is a Point & Click detective game filled with puzzles to solve and codes to crack.

Experience a detailed simulation of one of the most iconic pieces of 2000’s technology, complete with mini-games and classic apps. Try out the game’s handwriting recognition system for full immersion, or a keyboard will do just as well!

Unravel this retro riddle of a game, and put an end to the Cryptic Killer’s spree. As a special surprise for the first issue of the GSC Demo Disc, Palm Cracker wil be releasing on March 21st, for FREE!

Demo available on PC(Steam).

A.I. Limit

• Developer: Sense Games
• Publisher: CE-Asia
• Release Date: 27th March 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam) and PlayStation 5

Part of the PlayStation China Hero Project, AI Limit is a 3rd person action RPG where you play as Arrisa, an immortal Blader searching Havenswell for the hope of a new life. An anime styled Souls-like, AI Limit takes gameplay cues from games like Bloodborne and notably Code Vein.

Featuring a variety of enemies and bosses straight out of a sci-fi dystopia, use a range of weapons and abilities to take them down.

The game has a unique sync mechanic where you deal more damage the higher your sync meter. You build up sync by damaging enemies and lose it by taking hits, so mastering your quickstep dodges and deflections is a must. You also take more damage with low sync and since the sync meter is also used for ranged attacks and spells, combat is a delicate balance of aggression and managing your meter to ensure you don't take a big hit.

Demo available on PC(Steam) and PlayStation 5.

The First Berserker: Khazan

• Developer: Noeple
• Publisher: Nexon
• Release Date: 27th March 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S

The First Berserker is a brutal action RPG set in The Dungeon and Fighter Universe. You take control of Khazan, a mighty general who was betrayed and framed for treason. Tortured and banished from the kingdom he has given everything to protect. Narrowly surviving death, Khazan must hack and slash his way through monsters and humans on a path of vengeance. 

The First Berserker demo gives you access to the first 2 missions in the game and takes anywhere from 2 to 4 hours. You also get access to different weapons and gear to play around with. The combat is fluid and challenging but never feels extremely difficult.

If you are into Souls-likes or just a fan of the Dungeon Fighter Universe, The First Berserker might be for you. Fully voice-acted and visually stunning, the mix of realistic environment and cell-shaded animation makes it feel like you are playing an anime.

Demo available on PC(Steam), Xbox, and PlayStation.

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

• Developer & Publisher: Firefly Studios
• Release Date: July 15th 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Relive history with Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition, an expanded remaster of the classic “castle sim” game! With improvements including remastered visuals and music, two new historical single-player campaigns, and rerecorded voice lines by the original game’s actors! Team up with a friend in an all-new co-op trail, or prove your might in PvP matches with up to eight players/AI.

Build your fortress, bustling with trade and encrusted with defences; a monument to your power and success. Take to the field with larger maps and design your own campaign scenarios with full Workshop support. Clash with up to twenty AI lords in Skirmish Mode, including four new lords featuring unique tactics and behaviours.

Spanning the first three crusades to the Holy Land, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition includes historical figures, like Richard the Lionheart and Sultan Saladin, and events like the sieges of Jerusalem and Antioch. Whether you are amassing your forces and riding into real-time battle, or just admiring your majestic citadel, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition has you covered.

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Mira and the Legend of the Djinns

• Developer: Little Knight Games
• Publisher: Assemble Entertainment
• Release Date: Q1 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam) and Nintendo Switch

Inspired by Moroccan and Amazigh culture, language, and spiritual traditions, Mira and the Legend of the Djinns is a classic 2D, side scrolling metroidvania. You play as the unlikely duo, Yuga the treasure hunter, and Mira the mysterious Djinn. Together, they journey across the devastated land of Fallen Amazgesh to uncover Mira’s lost memories, and what happened to her land and people.

Wield various weapons and elemental powers in a fluid combat system that let’s you switch between them mid combat. Unlock new moves from a skill tree and create devastating combos! Utilise abilities to use in and out of combat, like the tried and true dash along side brand new ones to the genre. Discover new tools with various uses throughout the game, and explore every nook and cranny!

The world and inhabitants of the Desert Ocean are brought to life in beautiful pixel-art, and accompanied by a evocative soundtrack that captures the mood. With grotesque monsters and challenging bosses to defeat, puzzles to solve, and priceless relics to claim, Yuga and Mira have plenty to do on their epic journey!

Demo available on PC(Steam).

PaperKlay

• Developer & Publisher: WhyKev
• Release Date: Q2 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Meet Chick and Nugget, gaming’s new dynamic duo! Journey across an imaginative land crafted out of paper, cardboard, clay, and so much more. Take things at your own pace as you explore every corner and crevice, unfolding and rotating the world around you to find all the lost eggs.

As the plucky Chick, you’ll be double jumping, dashing, punching, and gliding your way through a hub world and various colourful locations waiting to be explored. During special challenge levels, you’ll play as Nugget, who has their own way of solving puzzles! Paperklay aims to capture the spirit of the classic 3D platformer collect-athons of days gone by.

Meet a fully voiced cast of charming craftspeople, from cardboard scarecrows and pinecone kings, to giant sock puppets! A sunny, upbeat soundtrack, including music by the legendary Grant Kirkhope, rounds out this egg-citing experience!

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Knights in Tight Spaces

• Developer: Ground Shatter
• Publisher: Raw Fury
• Release Date: 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Knights in Tight Spaces is the second game in the Tight Spaces series from developers Ground Shatter. Following up from the amazing Fights in Tight Spaces from 2021, Knights in Tight Spaces follows a similar formula with a medieval fantasy twist. 

A turn based, strategy, tactical, deck builder (say that 5 times fast) that features the same addictive gameplay loop of the first title. You control a full DnD party of fighters in card based grid battle in small environments. With 300 cards to slot into your deck, each room is a test of your deck building capability and your tactical thinking. Tough enemy standing next to a window? Just kick them right out of it and remove them from combat. Archer targeting your ally? Push another enemy in front of them as a meat shield! 

There's so much synergy between cards, locations and party member combos that you'll never solve a problem the same way twice. It's super creative, super stylish, the art is amazing, and the music absolutely rocks.

Demo available on PC(Steam).

Escape From Duckov

• Developer: Team Soda
• Publisher: bilibili
• Release Date: 2025
• Platforms: PC(Steam)

Feathers and bullets fly in this single player, top-down looter-shooter! You wakr up on a strange island inhabited with heavily armed avians, with the single goal to somehow escape. Loot, shoot, and build your way off the island, and uncover the mystery surrounding it!

Cautiously explore the island outside your shelter and collect resources to help you survive. Use the spacious basement below to build a hideout for yourself, where you can recuperate as well as craft and upgrade weapons. It’s dangerous out there, and if you go down you’ll lose everything you’re carrying, so make sure you’re ready!

Out on your expeditions you may come across NPCs who will share information about Duckov, but be careful, not everyone is a friendly face! You may just be a cute, little ducky, but don’t let that stop you becoming the baddest bird on the island!

Demo available on PC(Steam).