Weekly Game News #09 2025
Dear Friends,
I hope you are all doing well. Steam Next Fest is in full progress and I'm sure you'll have a lot to discover there.
Nevertheless, I have put together a list of games for this week as well. It's become a mix of heartwarming and a little crazy. From a hand-drawn adventure about rescuing a lost puppy, to a strategic deck-building city game, to sci-fi puzzles and surreal puzzle experiences.
Let's get started.
| Upcoming Games
Koira
Rescue a puppy and go on a heart-warming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend. Koira is a wholesome tale of friendship where you and your new puppy traverse a musical forest, solve ancient puzzles, befriend woodland creatures, and try to find your way home. Avoid danger along the way, as hunters lurk in the shadows...
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1626620
📅 Release Date: 1 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Studio Tolima
The Golden Tile
Build a thriving city on a hexagonal grid in this unique deck-building game! Buy cards, collect resources, balance upgrades, and unlock relics to enhance your strategy. Step into a vibrant pixel-art world where strategy and creativity collide! Place buildings on a dynamic hexagonal grid, optimize your resource generation, and manage prices to maximize your profits.
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3424190
📅 Release Date: 4 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Alaabale
Pilo and the Holobook
Join Pilo and Prof in a new space adventure! Use your Holobook to turn everything into stickers and create your own encyclopedia of a new world. Explore beautiful new planets and meet new friends in this adventure game. Guide Pilo, an apprentice explorer, on a journey to document the universe’s wonders and solve mysteries.
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2423270
📅 Release Date: 10 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Mudita Games
Blue Prince
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46? Every decision shapes your path, and the manor’s layout resets daily, keeping the mystery fresh.
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569580
📅 Release Date: 10 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Dogubomb
The Talos Principle: Reawakened
Step back into a world of thought-provoking puzzles, philosophical intrigue, and breathtaking visuals with The Talos Principle: Reawakened—a first-person puzzle masterpiece for both new players and long-time fans alike. If you love deep narratives and mind-bending puzzles, this one’s for you.
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2806640
📅 Release Date: 10 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Croteam
Crashlands 2
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open-world crafting RPG Crashlands. Return to Woanope as Flux Dabes, an intergalactic trucker, and survive corporate burnout—while dodging a new mysterious threat.
🔗 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401730
📅 Release Date: 10 Apr, 2025
🎮 Developer: Butterscotch Shenanigans
| What to Listen to This Week?
For this week, I have included a soundtrack based on the game Death Stranding. Almost two hours of cinematic atmosphere.
You can listen to it here:
| Final Thoughts
That's it for this week! Take care and let me know what you think of the Death Stranding soundtrack. Have fun playing.
Until next time,
Belane
be still my heart. anything death stranding makes me float with wonder and excitement. thank you for this.