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VOL. MMXXVI · No. 1 All the games that's fit to ship. Not affliated with Valve. TWO BITS · 19 AUG 2026

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ONLINE CO-OP · HORROR · FUNNY 18 AUG 2026

Last Pirates: Die Together

67%
OF 43 REVIEWS
Created by RetroStyle Games
$7.99 $6.39 -20%

Last Pirates: Die Together is an online co-op horror experience filled with chaos, monsters, and LOTS OF BOOTY! You and your crew will use your unusually stretchy arms to gather as much loot as you can for your captain. Be mindful of your surroundings though. There are others who mean to keep the treasure for themselves.

You land lubbers aren’t that tough! You and up to three of your closest mates will work together, communicate, and survive as you try to make your ol’ captain rich and happy!

You are quite an unusual sailor! I bet you can grab just about anything with those pairs of hands. Dismantle doors, grab furniture, or destroy the island for all I care! Just bring that money back aboard or the captain will have our head!

Remember, scallywags, you are here for gold! Collect all the booties (and protect your own!), shake things down, and don’t come out empty-handed or no-legged. Feel the adventurous drive push you deeper into the mysterious island, but make sure that at least one of you lives to carry out the gold.

Make it back to the ship in one piece, would ya? Avoid all the dangers that the island has in store for you. Play the hero or hide somewhere if you find yourself in a pickle. Or maybe one of your crewmembers can provide a distraction… I’m sure they’ll be fine, trust us!

Don’t be afraid to look at Davey Jones’ Locker. We all die anyway, so why not create an adventure worth remembering? Grab your crew, grab some booty, and make a story worth telling those bilge rats outside!

INDIE · ROGUELIKE · ACTION ROGUELIKE 18 AUG 2026

RAZE

97%
OF 39 REVIEWS
Created by RAZE CLUB
$9.99

«RAZE» is an action roguelike where everything revolves around randomness. You play as a fearless cat warrior, one of the guardians of the Shadow World and a member of the legendary feline unit «BLACKWATCH». Your main goal is to stop the evil that was born in your dimension before everything spirals out of control.

One of the gods of the Shadow World steals an ancient and powerful artifact called «Mask of Shadows» and uses it to unleash darkness. Having gained new powers, he seeks to destroy the Shadow World, turn it into hell, and then destroy the World of Light. Only you, the fighters of «BLACKWATCH», can stand against him and strike back.

  • Fight hordes of enemies in endless endurance battles, alone or in co-op. Thousands of enemies await you, ready to be destroyed with all kinds of weapons, from the good old double-barreled shotgun to complete absurdity like lasers shooting from your eyes.

  • Do not just fight, compete. «RAZE» is not just a single-player roguelike, but an online roguelike with a ranking and title system. Every match will earn you rating points and move you higher in the global leaderboard.

  • Upgrade not only your cat but also his faithful «ShadowGun». The game features hundreds of randomly dropped items that let you transform your fighter and weapon beyond recognition.

  • Die and rise again. Every new match unlocks more items and possible combinations. Alternative routes will also be generated during each match, giving you different paths to follow.

  • Convenient, simple, and intuitive controls. You don't need to press dozens of buttons to win: just attack with anything you can get your hands on and move skillfully through the terrain. Play using only the keyboard, or use the keyboard together with a mouse for greater convenience.

Powered by «RAZE ENGINE», based on «Godot Engine 4.3»

LOVECRAFTIAN · ACTION · THIRD-PERSON SHOOTER 18 AUG 2026

The Sinking City 2

94%
OF 260 REVIEWS
Created by Frogwares
$49.99

A survival horror in Lovecraft's world

The Sinking City 2 is a third-person survival horror set in 1920s Arkham. Deliberate, tense, and resource-lean: pressure builds as you push deeper, relief comes in brief refuge, and fear is something you manage. Mind your inventory, take on unnerving puzzles, and double back via unlocked shortcuts for supplies and upgrades.

Arkham, New England

A Roaring ’20s port city buckling under a supernatural flood. Tide-stained avenues and battered Art Deco. Speakeasies gone dark. Districts feel lived-in and water-worn, with routes by foot and skiff, shortcuts behind collapsed seawalls, and secrets tucked in boarded parlors. You’ll navigate a hospital where science hides its face, a fish market where the merchandise bites back, and descend deep below the city to where eldritch horrors stir.

A rescue with impossible stakes

A ritual gone wrong trapped her soul in the Dreamlands, and now malevolent forces have stolen her body. To rescue the woman you love, you must walk a dangerous path through catastrophe to the source of the flood — her presence always felt, but rarely seen.

Fearsome foes

The Slither animate the dead. Deep Ones surge from dark water. Shadows bend space and test nerves. Some fights must be met head-on; others demand a retreat to rearm, retune your build, and return better prepared. Or take on an optional investigation and come back with an upgraded gun.

Investigate at will

Exploration is the key to survival. Read ritual residues, sift through grisly clues, decode journals that shouldn’t exist, and pry at masks that won’t come off. Optional cases never gate progress — but they unlock safer routes, hard supplies, and upgrades that change how you endure the next encounter.

Built with uncommon devotion

The Sinking City 2 draws on Frogwares’ detective roots to deliver survival horror that runs deep and hits hard. Shaped by studio obsession and community feedback, it’s a faithful Lovecraft experience: myths made manifest, and the inconceivable fear that results.

EARLY ACCESS · MMORPG · SCI-FI 18 AUG 2026

Stars Reach

59%
OF 180 REVIEWS
Created by Playable Worlds, Inc.
$29.99

An entire universe awaits you in Stars Reach. In this science-fantasy MMORPG, you'll visit strange, new worlds, become an explorer, and build a life on planets that react to everything you do. Your choices will change your world. And, you'll do it with every other player on a single server. Leave your mark on the galaxy!

Each world responds to your actions. A deep, reactive simulation allows water to flow naturally, forests to burn, and lava to harden into new materials and land masses. From lush forests to winding rivers to perilous mountains, every planet has its own ecosystems, resources, and challenges. Your decisions determine what resources are available to you, how wildlife reacts, and ultimately which settlements prosper.

Planets are living systems. Your decisions determine what resources are available to you. Climate changes, creatures migrate, disasters strike, and the world reacts in ways you can’t fully control.

Travel through wormholes to discover new worlds, explore, build, survive, and thrive. Every planet begins untouched. What it becomes is up to you.

Master one of dozens of skill paths, and live the galactic life you’ve always dreamed. Whether you want to protect settlers as a ranger, build a trade empire, or offer your services as an architect, Stars Reach offers many skill paths that allow you to chart a course through space that fits your play style. There are different weapons to master. There’s a career path just for you in Stars Reach.

You’re not locked into any single playstyle. Experiment with different skill paths and find the combination that suits you best. Build your own class from different skill sets and define your role in the galaxy.

Your first steps onto a new world take you far beyond the familiar. You’ll need to adapt to your surroundings by learning to survive. Every skill path has accompanying equipment, which you’ll gain proficiency with by using those tools.

More importantly, your contributions to the community will increase your proficiency. A camp you build will earn you experience when others rest at it. Community means survival, and we’ve built Stars Reach to support pro-social behavior and limit the ability for other players to ruin your experience through griefing.

You can build a cozy cottage on a remote hill, and carve out a living by yourself. But if you crave community, team up to build settlements and cities, shape how they grow, and decide how they are governed.

Team up and claim a large plot of land that isn’t just a home base. You and your friends can cluster your homesteads, build a community, and govern together.

The resources you gather can be sold in a unified galactic economy driven by players. Or, you can use them to craft tools and technology to supply distant worlds with vital goods necessary for their survival.

Trade with players across the galaxy, specialize in what you make, and become a master of your craft and earn renown across the galaxy.

Your choices determine what comes next.

Cities grow or decline, ecosystems shift, wildlife becomes extinct, and resources are used up or recover based on what you do. Protect the environment and its inhabitants, or strip mine it for profit. Other players live with the results of what you leave behind.

This is Stars Reach! What will you become?

SHOOTER · FIRST-PERSON · HORROR 18 AUG 2026

Twisted Tower

97%
OF 179 REVIEWS
Created by Atmos Games
$14.99 $13.49 -10%

Step right up to the Twisted Tower! Careful though! Our silly mascots may be looking for a hug, and our carnival rides might need some screws tightened…

So what do you say, chap? Are you tough enough to make it to the top of the tower and save the love of your life?

Here’s what your ticket will get you upon entering the magical resort:

  • Explore an abandoned 1950’s resort reminiscent of BioShock and Disney World

  • Get lost in 5 hauntingly beautiful levels: the hotel, the waterpark, the clown casino, the carnival forest, and the space station

  • Punchy, bloody gunplay with corrupted fairy-tale mascots

  • Immerse yourself in a mysterious and emotional story

  • Choose from a variety of unique paths per playthrough, ensuring the world feels like a fresh new experience

  • Upgrade your toyish arsenal, including: a whack-a mole mallet, rubber-band pistol, dart throwin’ Tommy Gun, fartin’ shotgun, bubblegum spittin’ chain-gun, sniper slingshot, skull-poppin’ ray gun, and more

  • Collect bizarre toys to assist you in jumping, dashing, and grappling your way up the tower

EARLY ACCESS · PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR · FUNNY 17 AUG 2026

WE ARE SO DEAD

73%
OF 124 REVIEWS
Created by REAL PLAYERS
$7.99 $4.95 -38%

A co-op seance horror game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others.
Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading.
Guide them through a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise.
Can you banish the demon on each floor and reach the bottom of the house?
2-6 players.

  • One of you starts dead. Each game, one player becomes the ghost — able to see the demon, the dangers, and the way out, but unable to be heard by the living. Ghosts can hear the living, and each other (ghosts can hear other players, but cannot be heard by non-ghosts.)
    As the ghost, you can see everything — the thing hunting the others, where it's safe, the way out before sunrise. The catch: you can't be heard by the living, you can't touch anything, and your only voice is some flickering lights and a seance board that your friends half-believe is even you.

  • The Ouija board is one of the only voices of the dead. The ghost moves the planchette to point, answer yes or no, or slowly spell things out — and the living will attempt to question them and read it under pressure.

  • A different demon every time. Its rules are hidden and change each session. Only the dead find out what they are, when they strike, and where. The ghosts can see the danger before it hits. They must communicate it with the living and help them banish the demon so they can leave the house before sunrise.

  • Gather the relics, one trip at a time. The ghosts search the house for what the ritual needs, then attempt to communicate it to the living, who will then be carrying each piece back while the ghost steers them around what they can't see and what will kill them. Only the ghost can see what and where the relics are, and only the ghost can see the dangers.

  • You're a ghost. Do ghost things. The ghosts can flicker lights, open and close doors, go through the living and they'll feel it, and as a last resort: scream, loudly -- and if you're all silent enough, you may just hear it. The seance board is not the only way to communicate, but is the only stable way to get full words across to the living.

  • Banish the demon by name. Winning means spelling out its true name — readable only to the dead once all the relics are collected, then the living must spell it back — so you can banish the demon and get everyone out before sunrise. For example, you and your friends will be spelling ULALULA on the board like crazy people to win the game (and pray that you read it right from the ghost player in the first place!).

  • Dying lets you help. Players the demon takes join the dead, adding another voice to the seance, and more help at finding the relics and warning players of the dangers. 

  • Nine floors down. The house is bigger underneath. Banish the demon to unlock the next floor, each further from sunrise than the last, and each one holding something the floor above it didn't. Can you and your friends reach the bottom of the house and beat floor 9?

  • 2-6 players online co-op.
    You spell H-E-L-P. They read HELL and cheer. Someone gets dragged into the dark. To survive the night, the living will have to haul the right relics back to the seance board and spell out the demon's true name to banish it — and the dead are the only ones who can read that name.

It only takes one friend who listens to the dead to save everyone. You do not have that friend.