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Game: Vikings Dynasty Developer: Digital Daredevils (Wrocław) Publisher: Toplitz Productions Genre: Norse Survival & Settlement Builder Release Date: To be announced Platform: PC (Steam) Players: Single-player Setting: The Steineyjar archipelago 🪓 Vikings Dynasty premiered a new trailer at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, and Toplitz say it kickstarts the next phase of development. The game is playable at gamescom for press and creators, with more news promised in the coming weeks — but there’s still no release date. ⚖️ You Start With Absolutely Nothing Toplitz open the announcement with a line that does a lot of work in six…

Game: Prospera Developer: Active Fungus Studios (Munich) Publisher: Toplitz Productions Genre: First/Third-Person City Builder & Automation Release Date: Q2 2027 Platform: PC (Steam) Players: Single-player Engine: Unreal Engine 5 🏭 Prospera is a city builder you play from inside the city. Active Fungus Studios and Toplitz Productions revealed the Victorian industrial builder at gamescom, and the Steam page pins it to Q2 2027 — with playtest sign-ups already open. ⚖️ Beauty Is a Resource, Not a Reward Most city builders treat decoration as the thing you do once the spreadsheet is solved. Prospera’s Prosperity System inverts that: “In Prospera, beauty…

Game: Militsioner Developer: TALLBOYS Publisher: CRITICAL REFLEX Genre: First-Person Immersive Sim Release Date: 2027 Platforms: Xbox Series X|S · PC (Steam & Microsoft Store) Game Pass: Day one — PC and console Players: Single-player 🚨 Militsioner is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2027, day one on Game Pass. CRITICAL REFLEX and TALLBOYS announced the console version during the Xbox @ Gamescom Showcase — the first time the long-awaited Colossal Policeman immersive sim has been confirmed for anything other than PC. ⚖️ The Whole Game Runs on One Idea You’ve been arrested. You haven’t done anything. The town…

Event: Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026 Host: Valve Starts: Monday, August 31 — 10:00 AM PT Ends: Monday, September 7 Length: One week Theme: Survival + crafting with a PvE-first loop Platform: Steam (PC) Cost: Free to browse — discounts throughout 🪓 Steam’s PvE Survival Crafting Fest runs August 31 through September 7. It kicks off at 10:00 AM Pacific (17:00 UTC) on Monday and covers a full week of discounts on survival and crafting games where the only thing trying to kill you is the world itself. ⚖️ One Rule Decides What Gets In Steam’s themed fests each…

Game: Rogue Fortune Developer: Glowmade Publisher: Unannounced Genre: Top-Down Action Roguelite Release Date: 2027 Platforms: PC (Steam) · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch · Switch 2 Players: Single-player Run Length: ~30 minutes 🏛️ Glowmade announced Rogue Fortune on August 27 during the XBOX Gamescom Showcase. It’s a single-player, top-down roguelite where your inventory is a geometric puzzle board — and where the treasure you’re carrying doubles as your resource meter. Coming to PC and all four consoles in 2027. ⚖️ The Whole Game Runs on One Rule Rogue Fortune inverts the loop every other dungeon crawler is built…

Game: R.A.I.D. Full Name: Rapid Assault & Interception Division Developer: FusionPlay Genre: Co-Op VR Roguelite FPS Release: Later this year Platforms: Meta Quest 3, 3S, 2, Pro · SteamVR Players: 1–4 online co-op Pre-Order Bonus: Platinum Gun Skins 🎪 Playable at Gamescom Right Now — FusionPlay Booth If you’re at the show, R.A.I.D. is on the floor at the FusionPlay booth from August 26–30, which means it’s playable as you read this. The Gamescom showing follows the game’s new gameplay trailer, which debuted during the VR Games Showcase earlier this month alongside the opening of Meta Quest pre-orders. 📍 FusionPlay…