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IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/picture-114603-1642087047.png)   Antichulius

Welcome folks, and happy “95th Anniversary of the last Ford Model T” week! After making 15 million cars over nearly 20 years, Henry Ford announced the end of the iconic “Tin Lizzie” only one day before halting production. He originally wanted to keep his factories churning while also retooling them for the upcoming Model A, but consumer demand had shifted toward other manufacturers, resulting in roughly 60,000 laid-off Ford employees a month later. You may all celebrate by playing a game with the “turns left” warnings switched off.

Floppy Knights is from Garden Story and World Next Door devs, Rose City Games. It’s a card-based, tactical strategy game with a cartoonish art style. I dig the mashup and would normally start pining for an eventual Switch release, but considering my freshly unwrapped GamePass subscription, I’ll happily try it out there first.

Outright Games is a licensed game juggernaut. They’ve published games for nearly everything, from Transformers and Fast & Furious to Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol. This week My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure launches on all the major platforms. It touts pony-powers, multiplayer mini-games, and fashion show dress-up. Previews show some possible light platforming and exploration, but it’s certainly the license that determines whether or not this game finds its way into your cart.

I’m not sure I need another VR boxing game, but Manny Boxing VR comes to Steam Early Access this week.

The Out There series began nearly a decade ago on mobile devices. Over the years, I purchased several iterations before finally admitting that the exploration and resource management gameplay just didn’t hold my interest. Out There: Oceans of Time releases on PC this week, but I haven’t seen anything yet to revise my previous experience. It sure looks good, though, and still gives me the same old feeling. But I simply have far too many games I’m actually eager to play to roll the dice again on a formula that just isn’t for me.

Sniper Elite 5 is the latest entry in the longstanding series from Rebellion Developments. This deep in the series, we can expect enhancements to the long-range gunplay, the weapon customization, and the X-ray kill cam (which now includes slow motion, multi-shot kills from pistols and SMGs). But it’s the campaign’s new Invasion Mode, a Souls-like drop-in multiplayer, that ratchets up the intensity the most. Opponents can invade your campaign as an Axis sniper solely charged with taking you out, Enemy at the Gates style. You can also request the help of a co-op partner to make it all the more interesting.

Pac-Man Museum+ is an enhanced edition of Pac-Man Museum (2014) and packs together 14 games from arcade and console releases. Still noticeably missing is the ever-popular Ms. Pac-Man, and Bandai Namco have even replaced the character’s appearance in Pac-Land with a subtly altered Pac-Mom. Legal analysis, anyone?

This week, Floppy Knights is the game I’m most likely to play, but I have to hand GOTW to Sniper Elite 5 for what has the potential to be one of the most tense multiplayer modes. I doubt I have the steady hand and patient scope necessary to compete, but I can just imagine the amazing Twitch streams of the next few weeks.

Here's the list, now in release-date AND alphabetical order!

PC

  • 05-23

  • A HAUNTED HISTORY
  • Akapulka - The Rainbow
  • Code:R
  • Dark Desire 2
  • Dungeon Run
  • Egg Over It: Fall Flat From the Top
  • Godspell Defender
  • Grimhunt
  • Hardcore Trivia
  • Iron Jaw
  • Magna Graecia
  • My Days In Bel Air
  • Nano Organism
  • Night Racer
  • Ninja Village
  • SudoKube
  • The Sushi Spinnery
  • ULTRARUSH
  • Unreal Universe: Reboot
  • Venture Towns
  • 05-24

  • A Match with a Succubus Witch
  • Among Walls
  • Crash Forts
  • CrossFire: Legion
  • Divine Combat
  • Floppy Knights
  • Galactic Liberation
  • Hardspace: Shipbreaker
  • Invasion vill
  • King of the Gods
  • MIRADOR
  • Mysterious Things
  • Nedia Hotel
  • Pingo's Revenge
  • Pirate treasure
  • Rule The World CHESS
  • SCALEPLANET
  • Shores of Loci
  • Slava Ukraini!
  • SOUL JANITOR
  • Station Osirius
  • Tales of Agaris
  • The Airline Project: Next Gen
  • The Elf Maiden
  • The Netrunner Awaken1ng
  • The United SPACE of America
  • Time Thief
  • Touken Ranbu Warriors
  • Voodoo Detective
  • 05-25

  • Ah Diddums
  • AstraX
  • BlockFight
  • CowboysShowdown
  • Cute Cats 3
  • Doki Doki Family
  • FIRE HEAT
  • Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind
  • Kingdoms of Myth
  • Legendary Knight
  • Lorethem
  • Magic War
  • Mawthorne
  • Mischief Dungeon Life
  • Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds
  • Playable Mockup
  • Poptropica
  • Roller Champions
  • Schizoids
  • Sonority
  • Space Blast
  • Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde
  • Tarot: Theo's Quest
  • THE ILLUSION: NIGHTMARE
  • TOTEMS (DGV-Games)
  • Uninvited (2022)
  • Vacant Planet
  • Warlord: Britannia
  • Winter tramp
  • Yakyosho
  • 05-26

  • A-Mazing Enigmas
  • Acolyte
  • Animals Transport Simulator
  • Arclight Beat
  • Beatus Creation Solitaire
  • Bokurobo ~ Boxed Cell Robot Armies ~
  • BoomCrash
  • Detect Dan The Dog!
  • Deuces Wild - Video Poker
  • Endless Thief: a Furry Stealth Adventure
  • Fairy Biography
  • FLAM THE PURGE OF THE CENTURY
  • Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets
  • game one pot porridge
  • Godless grove
  • Golfie
  • Hellslave
  • Line Path
  • Manny Boxing VR
  • My Time at Sandrock
  • Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist
  • Nova Empire
  • Out There: Oceans of Time
  • OverDrift Festival
  • Popplings
  • Road Trip
  • ROTA
  • Sniper Elite 5
  • SpearFrog
  • Spider Solitaire Collection
  • Suicide Guy Deluxe Plus
  • The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
  • Touhou Crisis
  • Turbeton
  • Very Very Valet
  • Wife Massage
  • Yosemite Forest Ranger
  • 05-27

  • Abstract World
  • Anime Armpits
  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Bartender Hustle
  • Belarus Simulator: Preemptive Strike
  • Best Of Eleven
  • Blood Job
  • fault - StP - LIGHTKRAVTE
  • Good Luck Have Fun
  • Grimland
  • Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • Lightout 2
  • Lights Off!
  • Moo Lander
  • My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure
  • My Pet Sitter is a Futanari
  • Neighbor Fight
  • Pac-Man Museum+
  • Palallel
  • Prayer of the Faithless
  • PUT PUD Nudli's Adventure
  • Quantum Tripper (Early Access)
  • RO-BOUNCE
  • Roady Life
  • Ruin or Victory
  • SimpleSimulation
  • SOOT
  • Space Turbo 2
  • Spellarium 8 Match 3 Puzzle
  • Swords and Sandals Immortals
  • Tower Of Wishes 2: Vikings
  • Trigger Witch
  • Wibble
  • Xianxia Shrine

Xbox Series X

  • 05-24

  • Floppy Knights
  • Injection Pi 23 'Ars regia'
  • 05-25

  • Amazing Superhero Squad
  • Blow & Fly
  • 05-26

  • Sniper Elite 5
  • 05-27

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure
  • Remote Life

Xbox One

  • 05-24

  • Floppy Knights
  • Injection Pi 23 'Ars regia'
  • 05-25

  • Amazing Superhero Squad
  • Blow & Fly
  • Roller Champions
  • Zombo Buster Advance
  • 05-26

  • Sniper Elite 5
  • 05-27

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • Moo Lander
  • My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure
  • Pac-Man Museum+
  • Remote Life

PlayStation 5

  • 05-25

  • Blow & Fly
  • 05-26

  • Sniper Elite 5
  • 05-27

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • Remote Life

PlayStation 4

  • 05-25

  • Blow & Fly
  • Roller Champions
  • 05-26

  • Arcade Archives: Plotting
  • Sniper Elite 5
  • 05-27

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • Moo Lander
  • My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure
  • Pac-Man Museum+
  • Remote Life

Switch

  • 05-24

  • Touken Ranbu Warriors
  • 05-25

  • Blow & Fly
  • Ogre: Console Edition
  • 05-26

  • Arcade Archives: Plotting
  • Beatus Creation Solitaire
  • Eye Exercise - Ver. kompeito
  • Mischief Dungeon Life
  • Pixel Game Maker Series: KINGDOM FIGHTER
  • PRIDE DANCE Out & Proud
  • Twin Blades of the Three Kingdoms
  • Underland: The Climb
  • 05-27

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
  • Freezer Pops
  • Kao the Kangaroo
  • Moo Lander
  • My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure
  • Pac-Man Museum+
  • Remote Life

Comments

I wonder if Wife Massage has the same kind of late game content that the offline version I've been playing for years does.

I, quite literally, saw a Model T on the road yesterday and pointed it out to my kids.

I am very happy Sniper Elite 5 is on Gamepass! As the map sizes have increased I've actually enjoyed them less and less. Bigger maps in Hitman are amazing because the amount of interactibility in the world. Sniper Elite doesn't quite have that same width and depth.

The release I've been waiting for this week is Hardspace Shipbreaker Early Access Graduation.

When i saw the picture, instead of thinking of Sniper Elite, I thought of Sniper Petite. Then I imagined the game but with a very short protagonist that had trouble getting into position to shoot baddies.

PacMan is fun, a couple of games are, umm.. not fun. Some controls feel off.