Steam, Epic and GOG: You may have missed these 12 new insider tips

May 2, 2024

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In April, the building game Manor Lords was the most requested game on Steam, but big blockbusters were few and far between. Nevertheless, many new titles were released on Steam, GOG and Epic that were not in the spotlight. And among them are also some insider tips, which we have picked out for you like every month

In order not to miss anything, this time we have also included two games that were released in March over the Easter weekend. We were unable to include this period in our article for the previous month

Quick navigation for those in a hurry:

Open Roads
A Divine Guide To Puzzle Solving
Headquarters: World War 2
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Underspace
Rauniot
Sker Ritual
Bellwright
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
Another Crab’s Treasure
Sand Land

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Open Roads

Genre: Adventure
Developer: Open Roads Team
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: Steam
Release: March 28, 2024
Steam ratings: 75 percent positive (117 user reviews)

In Open Roads, you embark on an emotional road trip with your mother as 16-year-old Tess Devine to get to the bottom of your family’s secrets. You explore abandoned, long-forgotten places and have conversations with your mother. Visually, you can expect a mixture of realistic graphics and drawn characters.

A Divine Guide To Puzzle Solving

Genre: Puzzle game
Developer: Nementic Games
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: (Steam)
Release: March 29, 2024
Steam ratings: 97 percent positive (90 user reviews)

In this puzzle adventure, you are whisked away to the realm of the gods and have to traverse a pretty garden full of puzzles based on a special game mechanic: using the swap beam, you swap the positions of objects in the game world to get closer to the solution. You might even get to go home again as a reward!

Botany Manor

Genre: Puzzle game
Developer: Balloon Studios
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: (Steam)
Release: April 9, 2024
Steam ratings: 94 percent positive (264 user reviews)

Have you always wanted to live in a comfortable villa in rural England? Then enjoy a vacation at Botany Manor in the role of botanist Arabella Greene. Explore your sprawling estate and further your research: your goal is to grow rare plants from seeds by creating the perfect conditions

Headquarters: World War 2

Genre: Round Tactics
Developer: Starni Games
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: Steam, GOG, Epic
Release: April 10, 2024
Steam ratings: 80 percent positive (161 user reviews)

Real-time strategy is too hectic for you? Then try the turn-based strategy game Headquarters: World War 2. Here you lead tanks and soldiers from the Second World War into battle. In battles on destructible maps, you must always pay attention to the cover that buildings or destroyed vehicles can offer you

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Genre: Construction game
Developer: Quite OK Games
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
PC-Stores: Steam
Release: April 10, 2024
Steam ratings: 82 percent positive (483 user reviews)

Laysara: Summit Kingdom takes the construction genre to unimagined heights. In an Asian setting, you colonize the flanks of a huge mountain. Of course, this is not without danger and you must always protect your city from avalanches. If you get far enough, you can even build an impressive temple on the summit

Underspace

Genre: Space simulation
Developer: Pastaspace Interactive
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: (Steam), (GOG)
Release: April 10, 2024 (Early Access)
Steam ratings: 80 percent positive (161 user reviews)

When you hear science fiction, do you mainly think of fancy spaceships and laser cannons? Then Underspace (not to be confused with Everspace) is the game for you. The space game sees itself as the spiritual successor to Freelancer and lets you explore the wonders and dangers of a galaxy in a speedy fighter. Whether you become a trader, pirate or explorer is entirely up to you

Rauniot

Genre: Point-and-Click-Adventure
Developer: Act Normal Games
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: (Steam), (GOG)
Release: April 17, 2024
Steam ratings: 100 percent positive (35 user reviews)

With its post-apocalypse from the iso-perspective, Rauniot is reminiscent of Fallout at first glance. However, the point-and-click adventure is actually set in Finland, which has been destroyed by a natural disaster. You are part of a community of survivors and must travel through the dark and dangerous world on their behalf. In typical genre fashion, you explore various scenes and solve puzzles to progress.

Sker Ritual

Genre: Co-op shooter
Developer: Wales Interactive
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
PC-Stores: (Steam)
Release: April 18, 2024
Steam ratings: 84 percent positive (2,504 user reviews)

Sker Ritual is similarly dark but much more action-packed. In this first-person shooter, you play alone or as a group of up to four players against whole hordes of repulsive monsters. You fight your way through an island landscape where bosses, collectibles and new abilities await you.

Bellwright

Genre: Build-up strategy game
Developer: Quite OK Games
Platforms: PC
PC-Stores: (Steam)
Release: April 23, 2024 (Early Access)
Steam ratings: 76 percent positive (2,338 user reviews)

Wrongly accused of murdering the prince, you are hunted down by the tyrannical king of a medieval kingdom. What reads like the beginning of a normal role-playing game, however, aims to offer much more in addition to an extensive story. Alone or in co-op, you will build entire camps and settlements, raise armies and lead a rebellion. The game is still in Early Access

Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

Genre: Action game
Developer: Surgent Studios
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
PC-Stores: (Steam), (Epic)
Release: April 23, 2024
Steam ratings: 77 percent positive (203 user reviews)

In this Metroidvania, you play a grieving boy who wants to bring back his deceased father and turns to the God of Death. Armed with cosmic powers, you wander through mythological lands inspired by African cultures and master challenging battles against restless spirits.

Another Crab’s Treasure

Genre: Action-Adventure
Developer: Aggro Crab
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
PC stores: Steam
Release: April 25, 2024
Steam ratings: 93 percent positive (1,549 user reviews)

If there was a prize for the craziest Soulslike, it would definitely go to Another Crab’s Treasure in 2024. As a hermit crab, you want to buy back your confiscated shell and set off on an adventure into the underwater world. You use floating garbage as armor and weapons to fight all kinds of animal enemies. Along the way, some sea creatures will teach you powerful new attacks, known as Umami techniques.

Sand Land

Genre: Action role-playing game
Developer: ILCA
Platforms: PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S
PC-Stores: (Steam), (GOG), (Epic)
Release: April 26, 2024
Steam ratings: 90 percent positive (208 user reviews)

The last work of the recently deceased Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama is an action game with an open world. As the demon prince Belzebub, you travel through the desert and woodland of Sand Land with a wide variety of vehicles, which you then use in battles.

Have you come across a game in our insider tips that you might like? If you haven’t found anything, or your library is already overflowing anyway, you can take a look into the future with us: In the podcast, we talk about new details on the newly announced Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. And with Kingmakers, we took a closer look at a very wild genre mix.