August 2024 Humble Choice (2024)

Action, Indie

Experience the sublime cinematic stylings of Sifu, a martial arts action game where every strike and parry feels intensely real. You are a young kung fu student seeking to avenge your family's murder, and all that stands in your way is an endless cavalcade of enemies that you must dispatch using precise timing and brutal techniques, evocative of classic kung fu flicks. Thanks to a powerful magic pendant, death is merely a speedbump, albeit one that ages you every time you leverage its power… but with age comes invaluable experience and hidden power. Can you uncover the secrets behind the massacre before time runs out?

Action, Adventure

This first-person shooter casts you as a newly minted bounty hunter who wields sentient, wisecracking guns and it’s your job to take down a sinister interplanetary cartel intent on synthesizing humanity into alien drugs. In the course of this madcap adventure, you’ll navigate vibrant, bizarre worlds, interact with a rogues gallery of outrageous characters… not the least of which are the weapons in your arsenal. Each gun has its own distinct personality in addition to its role in combat, so expect variety in equal measures when it comes to both tactics and laughs. Can you save humanity from this altogether grim fate?

Action, Adventure, RPG

With Batman out of the picture, it falls on a new generation of heroes to protect Gotham City from its darkest days. Gotham Knights invites you to play as Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin in a quest to stamp out the criminal menace threatening to subsume Gotham. Get ready for an open-world action RPG at its most expansive, with five sprawling boroughs to explore, individual progression mechanics for each playable character, co-op support for up to four players, and more. Are you ready to take on some of the most sinister villains to ever darken the pages of DC Comics?

Action, Adventure, RPG

The timeless Slavic folktale of Baba Yaga comes to life in the gripping first-person adventure Blacktail. As a young girl accused of witchcraft and cast out of her village, you’ll live out the origin of this fearsome mythical figure, exploring a world suffused with spirits and magic, and engaging in thrilling first-person archery. The decisions you make will affect the world as well as how your character develops. You’ll gather resources and hunt game to survive and craft witchy brews to bolster your power in order to face down the horrors that lurk the land… brought on by your mysterious past.

Action, Indie, Adventure

If you’ve been looking for your next 2D side-scrolling roguelite fix, Astral Ascent has your number. You play as one of four unique characters, each with dozens of unique spells for your buildcrafting delight as well as backstories with depth to match. Your objective is to escape from an astral prison known as The Garden, full of dazzling scenery, innumerable hazards, and interesting enemies aplenty. Standing between you and freedom are 12 deadly guardians known as the Zodiacs, each with awesome designs and intriguing backstories that you’ll slowly unearth as you continue to attempt escape. Your new roguelite obsession has arrived!

Action, Indie

If you’re a fan of “boomer shooters” like Quake and DOOM, you’ll feel very much catered to with Diluvian Ultra fast-paced, pulp-inspired retro stylings. Set in a colorful, fantastical universe, you play as the mighty immortal warrior-prince Atilla, battling his way through a living spaceship filled with formidable foes ranging from biomechanical behemoths to beings that border on the demonic. Fortunately, you have no shortage of unique weapons with which to unmake them, and Attila’s sheer mobility will help keep the seemingly grim odds in your favor. Spare no pity for the interlopers!

Indie, Adventure

Universe for Sale tells an entrancing sci-fi story set in a remote mining colony in the clouds of Jupiter. The work of veterans of the underground comics scene in Europe, expect an exquisitely realized aesthetic vision, from its hand-drawn evocative visuals, to its dreamy original soundtrack. The story centers around a young woman with the ability to craft universes in the palm of her hand and the assortment of colorful characters that inhabit the derelict colony alongside her. From sentient robots to followers of a bizarre cult, there are enthralling stories and mysteries aplenty, waiting to be discovered.

Action, Indie, Strategy

Take the role-based starship management of FTL and add the cooperative plate-spinning chaos of Overcooked and you get This Means Warp. High-stakes roguelike space exploration in a procedurally generated universe is the name of the game, and you and your crew must do what it takes to survive in a corner of the cosmos that grows increasingly more hostile to your existence as you progress. From managing real-time ship-to-ship combat across battle stations to putting out literal engine room fires, it will take quick-thinking, teamwork, and a little bit of luck to make it in outer space.