Felix “For Humanity and Beyond” Threepaper
Welcome folks, and happy “81st Anniversary of the sinking of the Roma week!”
The Roma was Italy’s biggest battleship in World War Two. On 9 September 1943, a day after Italy had declared an armistice with the Allies, it was torpedoed and sunk. By German U-boats. You may all celebrate by playing a game where you complete a mission but die before it saves.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 officially releases today, but reviews are already up (they’re good), and people who paid for Gold editions are already playing it. It’s Gears of Warhammer: you play as a chonky Space Marine whose squad takes on Xenos hordes using a mixture of guns and iconic Warhammer melee weapons. The devs made a good decision to leave the Gears cover system behind, making combat more frenetic and fluid. You charge around the battlefield while the screen fills with a swarm that would make an EDF player say “Gee, that’s a lot of critters”. Your guns can thin a herd, but bigger enemies need melee finishers with, say, a chainsword. As a result you’ll be dashing, dodging, parrying, tanking, or cloaking to press your attack. This is making folks compare the combat to Bloodborne. If you want to skip all the melee and parrying, you’ll have to roll up a Sniper or Heavy class in multiplayer. In the campaign mode, you play as a premade character, Ultramarine Titus, who gives you a general introduction to the combat, weapons, and skills. You can make your own Space Marine in multiplayer, where there’s 6 classes to choose from, co-op and PvP modes, and crossplay. It’s even coming out on Steam and the Epic store at the same time.
Caravan SandWitch is an exploration game where you’re a boy with a van, searching across a sci-fi landscape for your missing sister. It’s peaceful in the sense there’s no combat, but the story might go to some spooky places—they didn’t spell “SandWitch” with a “t” by accident. They even capitalised the “W” to really make sure you get it.
Funko Fusion is like Lego Dimensions: an action game with a toy premise that offers a variety of characters and levels based on a mishmash of IPs that you would otherwise only see in Fortnite. The IP roster has a “Masked Singer” vibe, where each one they did get makes you wonder which ones they couldn’t get. It’s a real jumble, like a badly-sorted DVD shelf: Jurassic World sitting next to Back to the Future and Hot Fuzz.
For the nostalgists, there’s Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, containing the 3 games that most people remember and 4 other games. These old games from the 1990s will be enhanced with current-day multiplayer features, so you can fight like it’s 1999, if 1999 had rollback netcode.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a pretty clear GOTW this week. The game isn’t just fanservice, it looks as solid as its ridiculously oversized power armor sets.
GWJ Word of the Week
Crossplay: short for “cross-platform play”, it’s a multiplayer game feature that allows players on different platforms to play together. This feature enables a PS4 gamer to play Call of Duty against representatives of the PC master race, with their superior mouse-aiming controls, such that “crossplay” is a good description of that poor PS4 player’s eventual emotional state. Given how many games come out on multiple platforms these days, crossplay is rarer than you’d think—this is not because of technical issues but rather that the major platform makers want to keep the walls around their gardens. Nintendo is notorious for never allowing crossplay.
Here's the list, in release-date AND alphabetical order!
PC
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09-09
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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09-10
- Captive: You Are My Idol
- Cave Ghost
- Courier Tale
- Devil's Hideout
- Doll Catching Simulator
- DronesKillAnimals
- Elsie
- Escape Party
- Hazard
- I Am Your Beast
- Last Dream Fishing Arcade
- Meddl Dash
- Meshwork
- Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Satisfactory
- Stellaris: Cosmic Storms
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Be Fly
- Cardboard Fish
- CORN
- Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
- Emerald Geography
- Galactic Annihilation
- Just Platformer 100
- Line Time
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
- Mirthwood
- Multiplayer Medieval
- Multiplayer Romans
- Roborne
- Robot Rampage
- Skuf on Fishing
- Slime Girl Seems to Want to Be Friends with Humans+
- Tiles Puzzle
- Twizzle Puzzle: Flowers
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09-12
- A Last Song
- Ars Demonium Invocatum
- Baker's Agony
- Caravan SandWitch
- Celestia: Chain of Fate
- Chernobyl Again
- DeathSprint 66
- Deep in the Dungeon
- Dice Player One
- Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
- Garden Witch Life
- GoobnBalloonsDX
- GOOOOOL!
- Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town append fullscreen
- Head To Hell
- Hidden Cats - Zoo
- Hidden Pass Skirmishes
- Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu - Tsuioku no Ryuuhyou / Namida no Nipopo Ningyou
- Hollowbody
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
- Melobot: A Last Song
- My Cheetah Friend
- Mystery On Lost Island
- Nalani: Legacy of the Ancients
- NanoApostle
- No Arm
- NUBLA 2
- Periculum
- PICO PARK 2
- revive of the moon
- Shadow Trick
- SKUF BACKROOMS
- Spider-Tank vs Aliens
- Stardiver
- The Adventure of Ninomae Ina'nis
- The Jackbox Naughty Pack
- The Waiting Room - An Existential Simulation
- Utility for the Soul
- Wild Bastards
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09-13
- Bible Verse Challenge
- Cat God Ranch
- Edge of Sanity
- Fowl Damage
- Hamsterball: Potato's Great Escape
- HexenHold
- Hydrangea
- Keyboard Soldier
- Kimi no Hitomi ni Hit Me
- Land of Artificial Jellies
- Meme Mayhem
- Mexico, 1921. A deep slumber.
- Morvyn Gutter
- Mushroom Selection 2
- Nimbusfall
- Nocturnals
- On the Keyboard
- Our Ascent
- Panic In The Woods
- Pyrene
- Relic (EXZJION)
- STAaRS
- Sticker Delight
- StormEdge
- Sweet GYM
- Tears of Vanfell - Chapter 1
- The Cesspit
- The Jisul Village Revolt
- The Whisper Ghost
- Tiir Request
- Toubatsu
- Veil of Shadows
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09-14
- RealmScape
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09-15
- Abnormal1999:The Compass and the Sand
- Bomball
- DragonSpirits2
- Fishing Cat
- Flan's MS
- Glum Buster
- Gwihyang : Homecoming
- League of Felt Tanks
- Marshal: The End of The Western Era
- Shokudo Underworld
- SorcerialBladeCannon
- The Factory Must Grow
Xbox Series X
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09-09
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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09-10
- Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Crossy Road Castle
- Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer
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09-12
- Fabledom
- Garden Witch Life
- Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
- Melobot: A Last Song
- PICO PARK 2
- Selfloss
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
- The Jackbox Naughty Pack
- UFL
- Wild Bastards
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09-13
- Deep Beyond
- Edge of Sanity
- Funko Fusion
- METRO QUESTER: OSAKA
- Unholy
- World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing 24
Xbox One
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09-10
- Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Crossy Road Castle
- Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer
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09-12
- PICO PARK 2
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09-13
- Deep Beyond
- Edge of Sanity
- Funko Fusion
- METRO QUESTER: OSAKA
PlayStation 5
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09-09
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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09-10
- Elsie
- Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Crossy Road Castle
- Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer
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09-12
- Caravan SandWitch
- Fabledom
- Garden Witch Life
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
- Melobot: A Last Song
- Selfloss
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
- The Jackbox Naughty Pack
- Wild Bastards
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09-13
- Deep Beyond
- Edge of Sanity
- Evotinction
- Funko Fusion
- METRO QUESTER: OSAKA
- Unholy
- Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate
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09-14
- World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing 24
PlayStation 4
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09-10
- Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer
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09-13
- Deep Beyond
- Edge of Sanity
- METRO QUESTER: OSAKA
Nintendo Switch
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09-10
- Customers From Hell
- Elsie
- Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island - Plus Pack 1
- UNO Legacy Edition
- Yars Rising
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09-11
- Crossy Road Castle
- Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer
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09-12
- Aidan in Danger
- Besiege
- Brain training!! Hiragana&Katakana Search
- Brave Dungeon W Pack
- Caravan SandWitch
- Doomsday Paradise
- Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes
- Eden Genesis
- Fabledom
- Garden Witch Life
- GoobnBalloonsDX
- Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town append fullscreen
- Higashinihon VS Nishinihon: Dotchida Quiz - Sorette Joushiki Janai Kamo? 2-Taku de Kantan Zatsugaku Kyouyou Mame Chishiki Gakushuu Quiz
- Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu - Tsuioku no Ryuuhyou / Namida no Nipopo Ningyou
- Line Time
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
- Make it! Crepe
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
- METRO QUESTER: OSAKA
- Next of Kin
- Nimbusfall
- NUBLA
- NUBLA 2
- Pixel Game Maker Series The Willow Man
- Road Defense: Outsiders
- Selfloss
- Shashin o Mite Kotae You! Kuni-ate 3 Hint Quiz! Sekai no Bunka to Kokki ga Manaberu Kyouyou Quiz Game
- Shougakusei de Shiritai Houritsu: Kodomo Saiban Quiz - Sorette Yuuzai kamo! ? 2-Taku de Kantan Houritsu Zatsugaku Kyouyou Mame Chishiki Gakushuu Quiz
- Spot the Difference Ukiyo-e Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles - DLC 2: The Fairy Queen's Labyrinth
- The Jackbox Naughty Pack
- Trouble Magia ~Wakeari Shoujo wa Mirai o Kachitoru Tame ni Ikoku no Mahou Gakkou e Ryuugaku Shimasu~
- Wild Bastards
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09-13
- Absolute Fear -AOONI-
- Deep Beyond
- Edge of Sanity
- My Universe: 2 in 1 Culinary Collection
- My Universe: 2 in 1 Style Pack
- Real Cake Maker
- Samurai Kento
- Supermarket Manager Empire 2024
- Warzone Chronicles 2: Warfare Shooter Zombie
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09-14
- Mech Wars
- Supermarket 3D Tycoon Buisness Simulator
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09-15
- Dare To Spread
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