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The New Steam Times

VOL. MMXXVI · No. 1 All the games that's fit to ship. Not affliated with Valve. TWO BITS · 29 AUG 2026

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SPACE SIM · INDIE · TOP-DOWN SHOOTER 29 AUG 2026

Star Corsairs: Fractured Frontier

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Created by Tagir Nabiullin
$9.99 $8.49 -15%

Star Corsairs

Star Corsairs is a single-player 2D space RPG where every captain chooses their own path.

Build your fortune through a living economy, battle pirates and other dangerous enemies, explore mysterious wormhole anomalies, and uncover rare technology. Become a trader, bounty hunter, pirate, or smuggler—how you survive is entirely up to you.

LIVING ECONOMY

The galaxy runs on supply and demand. Trade over 100 different commodities between stations, complete lucrative contracts, or risk everything by smuggling illegal cargo.

Markets react to your actions. Flood the market with the same goods, and prices will crash before your eyes.

ACTICAL SPACE COMBAT

Your enemies don't just fly straight at you. They keep their distance, maneuver for better firing angles, attack in groups, and exploit your mistakes.

Hire escort wings, manage weapon heat, master your ship's strengths, and board enemy vessels to claim valuable loot.

46 UNIQUE SHIPS

From agile interceptors to massive capital ships, every vessel offers a distinct playstyle.

Heavy warships can absorb tremendous punishment but turn slowly, while fast raiders rely on speed and precision—one mistake can be fatal.

CAPTAIN PROGRESSION

Gain experience, level up, and customize your captain to fit your preferred playstyle.

Unlock active and passive abilities, recruit officers with unique specializations, and overcome stronger opponents through tactical boarding actions.

WORMHOLE ANOMALIES

Venture into mysterious pocket dimensions filled with danger and valuable rewards.

Discover more than 50 unique encounters, including abandoned wrecks to hack, ancient structures, mysterious space creatures, and legendary bosses guarding loot that can't be bought anywhere else.

RACING · STRATEGY · CARD GAME 29 AUG 2026

Car D Game

100%
OF 1 REVIEWS
Created by Knuckky
Free

Roguelike deckbuilding turn based tactical racing car building game

Car D Game (the D stands for driving) The car runs on real simulated physics, but you never touch a steering wheel in real time. Instead, the race pauses every couple of seconds: you see a projection of where your car is headed, play cards accelerate, brake, shift, turn, boost and preview exactly how your line changes before you commit. Then the simulation runs, momentum carries, tyres slip, and the next turn begins.

No reflexes required. All the depth of racecraft braking points, gear strategy, heat and grip management as a strategy puzzle instead of a reflex test. If you love cars and engineering but real-time sims lock you out, this game was built for you.

Your parts are your deck

There is no separate deck screen: the cards in your hand come from the parts bolted to your car. Install a racing engine and its acceleration cards appear in your hand. Upgrade your brakes and your braking cards hit harder. Between races you visit the garage to buy, sell and install parts. every build decision is a deckbuilding decision, and every car is a different playstyle.

A roguelike campaign

Each run is a gauntlet: climb a ladder of increasingly difficult races, earning cash and choosing new parts after each win. Lose a race and you lose a life; run out of lives and the run is over. Along the way you pick up driver skills; permanent passive bonuses that stack and shape your build. Every run starts fresh, and no two builds play the same.

Race real players'

ghosts Beat the campaign's benchmark times, then take on ghosts of other players recorded runs matched to your skill level through Steam leaderboards. Watch your own replays after each race to study your lines (or admire the chaos).

Features

  • Turn-based card-driven racing on top of a real physics simulation

  • Pause, plan, preview and scrub your projected racing line before committing

  • Parts-as-deck: the garage is your deckbuilder engines, brakes, tyres, suspension and more

  • Roguelike campaign: a difficulty ladder with lives, cash, and pick-1-of-3 part rewards

  • Driver skills: stacking passive bonuses earned as you progress

  • Ghost racing against other players via skill-matched Steam leaderboards

  • Full race replays

  • Map editor! build and race your own tracks [*]Steam Cloud saves

ACTION · CASUAL · STRATEGY 28 AUG 2026

EndlessRain

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yet
Created by airnuri
$4.99

Rain has not stopped for as long as anyone can remember. Four survivors, one shelter, thirty nights. Build it up during the day. Hold it together after dark.

The Gunner shoots. The Gunner cannot build a single wall.

The Engineer builds, mines, and repairs. The Engineer cannot fire a single shot.

A Gunner alone will run out of ground to stand on. An Engineer alone will watch their fortress get chewed through. You are not two players doing the same job faster. You are two halves of one survivor.

Chop wood. Break stone. Decide where the wall goes, how many turrets you can afford, and whether the campfire is worth the materials tonight. The day is on a timer, and it is never quite long enough. Every choice you make before sunset is a choice you will live with after it.

The light drains out of the world and they come from every direction. Twenty monster types, each one asking for a different answer. Some flood you with numbers. Some close the distance before you can react. Some ignore you entirely and go for your walls. On certain nights, something much larger arrives.

Every level up offers three cards. Piercing rounds, critical strikes, multishot, and more. Twenty three cards means no two runs play the same way.

Gold carries over into permanent upgrades. Records carry over into unlocks. Reach day seven, kill three hundred enemies, take down three bosses, clear all thirty nights. Each milestone widens the card pool itself, so your tenth run is a different game from your first.

Online co-op for up to 4 players through Steam. Drop in with friends in one click.

30 day campaign with a real ending, not an endless score chase.

20 monster types and multiple boss encounters.

23 run cards, permanent upgrades, and record based unlocks.

Hand made pixel art with dynamic day and night lighting.

Full support for English, Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

ACTION ROGUELIKE · RPG · BULLET HELL 28 AUG 2026

Netherhunt

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yet
Created by mtrosin
$4.99

Netherhunt is a dark fantasy survival roguelite where every run turns you into an even more powerful hunter.

Enter cursed realms ruled by demons and deadly creatures. Choose your hunter, survive relentless hordes, gather experience, and craft a build with powerful weapons, upgrades, and synergies.

Strengthen your hero with potions, church rites, profane upgrades, and by reforging your items with Garrick to defeat the hordes and ultimate evils.

Every run is a fight for survival: weave through swarms of enemies, unleash devastating attacks, defeat elite foes, and advance through hostile lands where danger grows with every moment. You must stop the Nether from consuming what remains of humanity.

Features

  • Fast, casual 10-minute runs

  • Heroes with distinct combat styles and progression

  • Complete daily and weekly quests to earn more gold and essences

  • Create powerful combinations with weapons, upgrades, and synergies

  • Face demonic hordes, imps, undead, elites, and bosses

  • Explore realms cursed by fire, ice, and necromantic darkness

  • Unlock new options and return stronger for your next hunt

  • Compete with players worldwide on global leaderboards

Early Access Founder Reward

Support Netherhunt during Early Access and receive the exclusive Founder premium skins permanently.

These unique appearances celebrate the hunters who joined us from the beginning, featuring complete animations and distinct dark-fantasy visuals.

Founder Skins:

  • Blood Ember

  • Blood Duchess

Eligible Early Access players unlock these skins automatically. This Founder reward will no longer be available to new players after the 1.0 launch.

Compete for the Hunt

Every run is a chance to rise through the global leaderboards.

Challenge players around the world, push your build further, survive longer, and fight for your place among Netherhunt’s greatest demon slayers.

Early Access Content

  • 3 stages with unique environments and monsters

  • 3 difficulties: Normal, Nightmare, and Hell

  • Endless Mode: face endless waves, progress through increasingly difficult rounds, and choose Pacts to raise both risk and rewards

  • 2 playable characters

  • 5 potion types and item reforging with Garrick

  • 3 types of church rites

  • Each character has 9 equipment slots: weapon, headgear, armor, gloves, belt, boots, amulet, and two rings

  • 14 unique items

  • Add up to 3 additional attributes to each item at the forge

  • Permanent talents earned by offering Dark Essences to Sargoth, the chained lich

  • Daily and weekly quests for gold and essences

The hunt never ends. How long can you survive?

IDLER · CASUAL · MINING 28 AUG 2026

TDM : Task Drill Maniac

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yet
Created by ZETACORE INC.
$4.99 $3.49 -30%

Hi there~

I’m Rena, a cute blonde beauty!

TDM: Task Drill Maniac is a tiny idle mining game where I mine ores right on your taskbar and craft new equipment.

The mining continues quietly while you work or play other games. Just how deep can you go?

Combine Power, Speed, and Luck to create your own mining setup.

You can also trade the ores and materials you collect with other players on the Steam Community Market.

So, is your drill ready?

Let’s dig all the way to the end of the world together!

■ Fair Mining, Secure Economy

  • All mining results and item acquisitions are verified and processed server-side.

  • It is impossible to artificially increase ores or equipment through client manipulation or hack tools.

  • Because the server directly manages mining progress, the legitimacy of all items traded on the Market is guaranteed.

  • We provide an environment where all players can compete and grow under the same conditions.

■ Mining That Continues on Your Taskbar

  • Mining continues on your taskbar even while you are using other applications.

  • You can check your progress, switch equipment, and keep growing without complicated controls.

  • Its compact window and lightweight design allow it to run alongside work applications or other games without getting in the way.

■ Upgrade Your Equipment and Dig Deeper

  • Craft and equip five types of mining gear: drills, helmets, workwear, gloves, and batteries.

  • Increase Power to break through tougher geological layers, use Speed to shorten mining intervals, and raise Luck to improve your chances of finding rare ores.

  • Each piece of equipment has different stats and material requirements, so you will need to build a mining setup that suits your current goals.

  • Dismantle unwanted equipment and reuse the recovered materials to craft better gear.

■ Diverse Geological Layers and Ores

  • New geological zones and ores appear as you reach greater depths.

  • Collect a wide range of resources, from common ores to rare minerals that are difficult to discover.

  • Even lower-grade ores remain useful for crafting and battery charging, so every mining result contributes to your progression.

  • Deeper areas require stronger equipment and more efficient resource management.

■ A Player-Driven Mining Economy

  • Some ores and items you obtain can be freely traded on the Steam Community Market.

  • Choose whether to keep materials for your own use or sell them on the market.

  • Purchase missing crafting materials from other players, or sell rare resources and build your own mining economy.

  • The value of the same ore may change depending on market supply and demand.

■ Key Features

  • Compact idle gameplay designed for the taskbar

  • Automatic mining and offline progression

  • A wide variety of mineable ores

  • Diverse equipment builds

  • Equipment crafting and dismantling

  • Battery charging and resource management

  • Geological zones that change with depth

  • Steam Inventory and Steam Community Market integration

  • Lightweight design made to run alongside other applications

  • Five equipment categories: drills, helmets, workwear, gloves, and batteries

A small mining operation on the edge of your taskbar can grow into a massive mining economy. Dig deeper, craft better equipment, and decide the value of the resources you discover.

EARLY ACCESS · ARENA SHOOTER · PVP 28 AUG 2026

Dirtnap

78%
OF 9 REVIEWS
Created by Unstable Entity…
$7.99

DIRTNAP is a multiplayer arena shooter with fully destructible maps. Every pixel of dirt can be dug, blasted or burnt away.

Matches are 2 to 10 players: online through Steam, over LAN, or mix and match with bots. Fly with a jetpack, aim your shot, shoot with one hand and dig with the other.

7 DIRTLINGS
- Chameleon - turn invisible when standing still
- Platypus - swim fast and stay underwater long after everyone else has drowned
- Ant - crawl along walls and ceilings
- Bear - dig through indestructible rock
- Mole - deploy an automated turret
- Spider - use your web as a grappling hook and to slow down enemies
- Viper - shoot twice as far with higher damage

GAME MODES
- Deathmatch - first to X kills wins
- Team Deathmatch - red versus blue
- Battle Royale - no respawns, and the lava is rising
- Capture the Flag - steal the enemy flag to score
- Single Player - complete the quest!

TOURNAMENTS
- Any game mode can be played in tournament form
- Upgrade your abilities between every round

A REACTING WORLD
- All liquids are fluid-simulated
- Water and lava react on contact: lava skins into stone, water boils into steam
- Fire spreads through grass and vines
- Stalactites break loose and crush whatever they land on
- Snow falls, drifts, melts and puts out burning Dirtlings

MULTIPLAYER
- 2-10 players over Steam lobbies or LAN
- Bots can fill any slot
- Open, password-protected and closed lobbies
- Full gamepad support



4 BIOMES
- Dunes - classic dirt caves with water and lava pools
- Permafrost - slippery ice, falling snow, frozen pools that shatter into powder when you dig them
- Mudlands - dry badlands where the pools are sinking mud
- Volcano - dark basalt and lava everywhere

WEAPONS
- Machine guns, shotguns, sniper and gauss rifles, flamethrowers and bazookas, missiles, grenades and the list goes on and on...