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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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EARLY ACCESS · ADVENTURE · OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFT 28 AUG 2026

Hoarders Realm

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Created by Taylor Robinson
$14.99

Hoarders Realm is a sandbox survival crafting collectathon for 1-6 players set in an endless series of interconnected floating islands that are a mix of hand crafted and procedurally generated voxel environments.

Collect:

collecting items is the main goal of your journey. whether its for the hoarders museum, the adventures guilds quests, the god of pinecones, or just to enhance your base. Let thy pockets overflow!

Build:

Each island is it's own self contained world making it easy to share your builds with others. Every item you find can be placed however you wish. Every bit of terrain can be collected, and reshaped to your harts content. enter into creative mode for even more build options. many creative only tools exist for making large changes to the terrain quick, and easy. New Islands can be linked together with portals.

Explore:

A wide variety of strange voxel based worlds await. forgotten temples, giant mushroom forests, and ancient libraires float somewhere beyond the clouds. using the in game world creation hub. an infinite number of new worlds can be created by setting their name, seed, and world type. 

FANTASY · CRAFTING · SURVIVAL 26 AUG 2026

Barbarian

88%
OF 26 REVIEWS
Created by CraftingBenchGames
$9.99 $6.49 -35%

Barbarian is a soulslike-inspired open-world survival RPG for 1–10 players, blending exploration, crafting, and base building with fast, skill-based combat.

Master fluid combat with precise parries and dodges as you explore a vast world, gather resources, craft and upgrade gear, and build your own base.

Defeat powerful bosses and grow stronger on your journey—play solo or with friends.

Multiplayer

Host your own world, join public lobbies, or team up with friends to explore, fight bosses, and build together.

Your character progression, equipment, and upgrades persist across every world you enter, allowing you to continue your journey wherever you play.

Skill-Based Combat

Barbarian features a fluid, skill-based combat system built around timing, precision, and full player control.

Control each arm independently to strike, block, or parry while dodging attacks in real time.

With no animation locking, every action flows seamlessly—letting you react instantly and stay in control.

Outplay enemies through positioning, timing, and quick decision-making in intense boss encounters.

Shape your playstyle through flexible progression, specializing in melee, ranged combat, or survivability.

Crafting & Progression

Crafting drives your progression in Barbarian.

Gather and refine resources into materials like iron, coal, gold, and rare diamonds—or hunt powerful creatures like dragons for valuable materials.

Craft weapons and armor, then upgrade your gear at stations like the anvil and tanning rack.

Earn valuable loot from enemies and bosses, offering multiple ways to grow stronger.

Craft automation machines to gather resources for you, scaling production and preparing for the game’s toughest encounters.

Building

Build your own base the way you want.

Gather resources to construct homes, storage areas, and creative structures throughout the world. Create a place to store your loot, set your respawn point, or design freely.

For players who prefer pure creativity, Free Build mode can be enabled in the world settings, allowing you to build without material costs.

Wishlist to Support Development

Barbarian is developed by a solo developer and continues to evolve.

Add Barbarian to your Steam wishlist to support development and get notified about major release updates and when it goes on sale.

— BarbOnSteam

EARLY ACCESS · WESTERN · OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFT 25 AUG 2026

Western Rye

43%
OF 61 REVIEWS
Created by Nixalon Studios
$21.99 $18.69 -15%

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WESTERN RYE

Set in the golden era of the Wild West among the red rock canyons of Monument Valley, a fragile settlement tries to hold itself together at the edge of everything. Explore a living, breathing world teeming with wildlife from a bustling town and deep caves to abandoned settlements forgotten by time. Trade with local NPCs, navigate dynamically reactive factions, and forge your story in the untamed West as you rise from a desperate outlaw to an enduring legend, carving out your legacy. Brave a breathtaking yet lethal frontier governed by dynamic weather, from blinding sandstorms to torrential rainstorms. Welcome to the world of Western Rye, and experience a land recovering in the wake of the mysterious Rye Fever.

🏠 BUILD YOUR HOMESTEAD

Start with nothing. Build something worth defending. Construct your home plank by plank, foundations, walls, roofs, doors. Set up your farm. Plant corn, wheat, beans and barley and watch them grow while you work the land. Install a water well before the thirst gets you. Place your Homestead Stove and cook a proper meal for the first time since the world fell apart. Your homestead is yours. Make it look like it.

⚒️ GATHER RESOURCES, MINE, SMELT, CRAFT

Chop trees for wood, gather herbs, cactus, mine raw ore, smelt it into ingots, craft the tools and structures that keep you alive. Build your smelter. Forge your weapons. Repair your equipment. Become a master of survival in this frontier. Everything you build, you earned.

🌾 COOK, BREW, FARM, FISH, HUNT......LIVE OFF THE LAND

The land is still alive even if almost everything else isn't. Plant seeds in your crop planter. Watch them grow through four stages from sprout to harvest. Raise chickens, cattle and pigs, Brew the finest Whiskey and Moonshine, Hunt bison in the fields. Fish at the lake. Cook on your campfire, or your Homestead Stove for meals that actually do something for you. Survival tastes better when you grew it yourself.

🔫 ARM YOURSELF

From Revolvers, to Shotguns and the rifles that won the west, choose what fits how you fight. Upgrade what you carry. The wild west waits for no cowboy!

CONFRONT RUTHLESS FACTIONS & PLAGUE REMNANTS

Fight your way through a Blind, sound sensitive and relentless remnants of infected humans affected by the Rye Fever known as 'Husk', to Outlaw Bandits raiding parties that control supply routes and ambush traveler. A dark Cannibal Cultists fanatics lurking in the valley’s darkest corners. A ruthless gang of banished native renegades arsonists who leave a trail of fire and ash across every path they cross.

📖 A STORY WORTH FOLLOWING

A Marshal carries something he won't talk about. The Sheriff knew the truth before anyone believed her. The Native tribe's children are disappearing too. A Priest needs help uncovering the darkest secrets of a cannibalistic cult and somewhere in the wilderness, a man in a broken face is playing a very long game. The frontier has a mystery. You're in the middle of it. 

PLAY TOGETHER

Western Rye is built for co-op from the ground up! Up to 4 players on the same frontier. Build your homesteads side by side. Share resources. Cover each other in combat. Face the night or Sleep through it together and wake at dawn. Every mission, every bounty, every dark night is better with company. Survive alone if you have to. Thrive together if you can.

ACTION RPG · OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFT · SANDBOX 24 AUG 2026

Din's Champion

93%
OF 109 REVIEWS
Created by Soldak Entertainment
$19.99 $15.99 -20%

Din’s Champion is a sidescrolling 2D action RPG in a highly dynamic fantasy setting. The world waits for no one; as you are exploring and collecting, crafting and building, planning, the forces of darkness are amassing power and executing their own designs. Left unchecked, they will unleash devastating consequences! Will you find strength in numbers, building a massive town with an army of dozens or even hundreds of NPCs, gathering enough resources and resilience to survive whatever crisis is thrown your way? Or will you strike out alone against the evil, relying on your own skills and strength to prevail?

FEATURES

  • Truly vast character customization system, with dozens of classes, each with their own skill-trees, strengths and weaknesses. Craft and equip the best gear with different stats and perks for your perfect warrior!

  • Multiplayer mode lets your friends join in the fun; survive, thrive, and push back the forces of the evil gods together!

  • Mighty and varied enemy forces, always scheming and striking and escalating. Monsters can plan ambushes and even instigate uprisings! If you do not work to stem the tide, you will be overwhelmed. 

  • Every choice has consequences. Who will you stop to save? Will you focus on curing the deadly plague or will you gather resources instead? Every moment has a hundred different possibilities!

PLAY WITH A MIND TOWARDS MINING

Stone and clay; trees; walls and mountains and the ground beneath your feet; if you can see it, you can take it! Gather resources wherever you go, both in the foreground and the background, allowing you to craft all sorts of powerful items, potions, buildings, and more! But be judicious: all the time you spend gathering stones is time the enemy spends gathering strength!

A WORLD AT WAR

A massive variety of enemies– hundreds of different monster-types to be found in different biomes, with different abilities and behaviors, coordinated by powerful bosses with a will of their own! Monsters do more than just wait around for you to come kill them, and they don’t simply seek you out, either. The forces of darkness will concoct different strategies as you play, trying to lure you into deadly ambushes, pilfer your resources, spread plagues and curses throughout your town, or keep you busy long enough to build up power and unleash a devastating cataclysm!

PARKOUR · FIRST-PERSON · ATMOSPHERIC 21 AUG 2026

VHOLUME

97%
OF 959 REVIEWS
Created by Nathan Grange…
$8.00

In the derelict capital of Afro-Eurasia, ruled by an all-controlling Ministry, Robert embarks on a bureaucratic quest to restore his family’s revoked ration tickets.

Movement-centric gameplay where the player can jump, run, climb and slide with great freedom. Environments challenge both agility and creativity.

Mastery-driven players can exploit momentum, discover shortcuts, and break the labyrinthine design, making each run a test of skill and efficiency as they chase target times.

Play solo, or join friends in multiplayer and experience every level together.

See other players’ ghosts, share your own, and discover new ways through each level.

Steam workshop support: Play levels made by the community or create your own.

EARLY ACCESS · SURVIVAL · OPEN WORLD 21 AUG 2026

Alien Apocalypse

48%
OF 27 REVIEWS
Created by Umbu Games
$17.99 $16.19 -10%

An survival sandbox built around one idea: to simulate what it means to survive in a world taken over by aliens.
No one knows exactly how it started, only that the world has changed beyond recognition.
Civilization has collapsed, and humanity is no longer in control.

Now the few survivors struggle to endure, not just against hunger, cold, and fear, but against something far more powerful that now rules the planet.

Alien Apocalypse is an open-world sandbox survival game set in the aftermath of this unexpected event.
Adapt, build, explore, and turn alien technology into your last hope for survival.

The world has become unpredictable, harsh, and hostile.
You’ll need to scavenge for food, craft tools, and fortify shelters to withstand constant threats.
Hunger, thirst, and exhaustion are as deadly as any creature you’ll face.
There are no heroes here, only survivors trying to make it one more day.

The planet is overrun by lifeforms and technology no one fully understands.
Collect alien technology, study it, and learn to reverse-engineer it.
Turn the invaders’ own weapons against them, or build hybrid tools that fuse human and alien engineering.

Whether you face the apocalypse alone or with friends, survival demands preparation.
Play solo for a tense, personal challenge, or team up in online co-op to share supplies, build together, and defend your base from alien incursions.
Every alliance comes with risk, and trust can be as fragile as the world around you.

The world of Alien Apocalypse was built to be explored.
From crumbling city blocks to desolate countryside, danger and opportunity are everywhere.
Climb, jump, and move with freedom to escape danger and discover hidden paths.
Every building could be a shelter… or a trap.

The creatures that now roam the planet are not mindless beasts.
They think, learn, and change.
Each encounter is different, and the deeper you explore, the more unpredictable they become.
The longer you survive, the more the world itself seems to turn against you.

This isn’t a game about saving the world.
It’s about discovering what’s left of it and surviving one more day.
Create your survivor, shape your path, and make your own story in a world that no longer belongs to us.