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This Week in Gaming (Week 18)

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As we go from April to May, we have something of a void of new game releases, with the biggest release being a game that puts you in charge of a factory. As for the rest of this coming week's releases, you can look forward to doing some farming, working as a detective, cosplaying as an alien, working in a lab and finishing the week in office with a party royale.

Foundry / This week's major release / Thursday 2 May / Early Access
Foundry is a first-person (first-robot?) factory builder with complete creative freedom set in a procedurally generated and infinite voxel world. Land on an unexplored planet and design a giant automated robot production facility under the watchful direction of your AI friend, Carl. Steam Link





Echoes of the Plum Grove / Monday 29 April
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn't want to be friends? There are always other means. Steam Link



Let Bions Be Bygones / Tuesday 30 April
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller. Steam Link



Exodition / Wednesday 1 May / Early Access
You are Kilok, a young Krah, living with the rest of his dying species down at the very bottom of a giant megacity. There - everything is overgrown, rusted down and pested. The bosses of the city, which are living in the higher areas are another species - the Lorus who ambush your tribe repeatedly. So you have to get your way up to the top of the skyscrapers and it is a deadly way. Steam Link



Undead Inc. / Thursday 2 May
Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical Corporation. Build, manage staff, conduct research, and trade in both cutting edge medical treatments and bleeding edge bioweapons. Steam Link



Seal: What the Fun / Friday 3 May / Early Access
"Seal: What the Fun" is an omniverse multiplayer party royale game that allows up to 20 players to enjoy a range of compact plays in 10 minutes. Players can customize their characters with variety of effects and features, making the game more interactive and unpredictable. Steam Link









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Spent last 2 days watching Fan throated lizards in their mating season display. Now I am totaly drained due to heat and sweating leading to dehydration. No games for me this weekend, will be spending sunday recovering and resting.
 
Does anyone with Factorio/Satisfactory experience have time with Foundry? Looks like it could be great or awful from the video...
 
Spent last 2 days watching Fan throated lizards in their mating season display. Now I am totaly drained due to heat and sweating leading to dehydration. No games for me this weekend, will be spending sunday recovering and resting.
Still a bit of snow on the ground here. A few more days and ice should be melted off the lakes. Oh, look it's snowing...............just barely though.

Does anyone with Factorio/Satisfactory experience have time with Foundry? Looks like it could be great or awful from the video...
Son has a ton of hours on satisfactory, but first time I heard of Foundry though, so not yet.
 
Still a bit of snow on the ground here. A few more days and ice should be melted off the lakes. Oh, look it's snowing...............just barely though.
One of the herpers who joined me this week is from Austria and he said it felt refreshing in hotter climate though for us here in India this years summer has been the worst one on record(in terms of heatwaves and lack of premonsoon showers). I am not turning on my PC much these days as the heat from PC is making things even more unbearable.
 
Let Bions be Bygones looks very promising to me. An adventure with dialogue options, branching paths and multiple endings, with a noir theme, set in a cyberpunk pixel art world? Yes, please!

I'll also check out Exodition. Primarily done by one guy, this title gives me strong Oddworld vibes. Oddyssey and Exoddus were some of my favorite cinematic platformers. Grim, original, and hard as hell -- but saving all of your kin felt really satisfying.
 
One of the herpers who joined me this week is from Austria and he said it felt refreshing in hotter climate though for us here in India this years summer has been the worst one on record(in terms of heatwaves and lack of premonsoon showers). I am not turning on my PC much these days as the heat from PC is making things even more unbearable.
I have a few coworkers that go back home (India) and they are saying same thing, hot and no rain. Hopefully the monsoons cool things off and don't cause excessive flooding.
 
The first 4 of these games seem wishlist-worthy to me. I've got too much of a backlog to buy any of them right now, tough.
 
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