10 Steam Greenlight games we’d buy tomorrow
August's Stuff has a PS4 vs Xbox vs Steam feature that's packed with all you'll ever need to know about gaming's trio of titans. Here's a snippet to wet your whistle.
Steam’s holding pen for games in development is a veritable goldmine of imaginative ideas that wouldn’t get a look-in at a big-name publisher.
Here are the ones we’d buy without a moment’s hesitation…
Among the Sleep
If you’ve ever worried about monsters lying in wait under your bed, the Oculus Rift-compatible Among the Sleep might not be the game to help you conquer your fears. In it you take control of a two-year-old child investigating strange noises in a darkened house. But how much is real? And do you need your nappy changing?
Papers, Please
Working in passport control might not sound like a laugh a minute but spend 10 of them playing Papers, Please and you’ll soon be drunk on the power (and rubber stamp) you wield. The retro graphics suit the 1983 setting perfectly and its fictional draconian world is wonderfully created.
Routine
With no health bars, no medi packs and no extra lives, Routine is not for the faint hearted or gung-ho. Explore the abandoned moon base in an attempt to
find out what happened to its crew. With Oculus Rift support planned, it might be best not to wear a white spacesuit…
Shelter
Fed up with controlling gun-toting meatheads with poor social skills? This first-person snuffler puts you in the paws of a female badger. Protect your cubs from the dangers of the big wide world, including birds of prey and – The Daily Mail’s public enemy number one – foxes.
Door Kickers
This top-down SWAT shooter combines the meticulously-planned tactics of Rainbow Six and the sweep ‘n’ clear gameplay of Hotline Miami, allowing you
to devise your attack step by step or go in with all guns blazing. Choreographed killing has never been so appealing.
Real World Racing
Like a cross between Micro Machines and Google Earth, this top-down racer uses a combination of high-resolution aerial photographs and graphical elements to create over 50 tracks through cities across the world, including Berlin, Rome and London, with room for 16 online players.
Road Redemption
A spiritual successor to 16-bit classic Road Rash, success in Road Redemption isn’t about lap times or pole positions, it’s about how you wield your samurai sword and how many opponents you can kick into the path of oncoming traffic. They don’t teach that in the Highway Code.
Riot
Unlike in the summer of 2011, you no longer need a BlackBerry and a misplaced sense of entitlement to indulge in a spot of civil disobedience. This retro unrest-’em-up gives you the chance to experience it from both sides of the law, with RTS-style controls for rallying your troops.
The Forest
You know the drill: plane crashes in forest and you’re the only survivor, then forest turns out to be full of apparently naked mutants with a taste for human flesh. We’ve all been there. Armed with little
more than a lighter, it’s up to you to find shelter, hunt for food and try to stay alive.
Parallax
This brain-bending, first-person Portal-esque puzzler puts you in a world with two dimensions: a black ‘n’ white one and a white ‘n’ black one. “But those are the same!” you cry. And that’s part of the problem. Working out which one you have to be in and when is all part of the puzzle.
Tom Wiggins
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