The Outlast Trials is cheaper than usual on Steam today, and GOG's had four new releases drop in the last day. News from Xbox and a couple of corners of the press rounds out the day, along with eight new trailers out of Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation and GameTrailers.
Deals and sales
On sale on Steam
The Outlast Trials: 70% off, A$17.55 (was A$58.50), until 5am Tuesday 3 November, Sydney time.
The Outlast Trials is a cooperative horror game. Players are held as test subjects in a Cold War era facility, and have to survive trials by hiding from enemies and evading them rather than fighting back.
Source: Steam specials
News
The Golden Caravan lands on GOG
The Golden Caravan is a strategy roguelike set in a noir 1930s underworld run by anthropomorphic birds. You play Charlie Colombo, a pigeon trying to make it through a world where every hand could be the last one you play. It's out now on GOG for PC.
Source: GOG
Sleepytime Village, now on GOG
Sleepytime Village casts you as a neglectful, workaholic father who wakes up trapped in a storybook village. You're haunted by its residents, its narrator, and visions of your own childhood as you try to find a way out. It's available now on GOG.
Source: GOG
Dungeons of Blood and Dream out now on GOG
Dungeons of Blood and Dream is an action-adventure roguelike. After a horrific incident, the Blood Wizard ends up trapped in the Mind Prison of a dangerous entity, and has to fight through dungeons using unreliable sleep magic to escape. It's live now on GOG.
Source: GOG
Dragon Spira, a new turn-based JRPG on GOG
Dragon Spira is a turn-based JRPG. A thousand years ago the divine made six eggs; the Spirit Beasts born from them rebelled, and the divine sealed them away and disappeared, leaving humanity with the Divine Sword and the Seed of Hope. A new hero rises into that world now, and the game is out on GOG today.
Source: GOG
In Puckoff: Reloaded, hockey comes with knockouts
Puckoff: Reloaded is a story-driven hockey game from five Finnish developers at Kuura Playhouse Oy. Scoring goals isn't the only way to win: you can knock opponents out too, and the story follows your character chasing down an undefeated player called Dominator through visual novel style scenes and fights in a venue called the Cage. It's out now on Xbox Series X|S for $14.99 through Xbox Play Anywhere.
Source: Xbox Wire
Curse of Resthaven's tips for its six-day time loop
Curse of Resthaven is a single-player narrative roguelite that mixes investigation, town management, trading, deck building and expeditions. You play Ambrose, a governor trying to restore a cursed island colony while looking for his missing niece Amalia, and a six-day time loop sends you back to your arrival whenever disaster strikes, though you keep what you've learned. It came out on 29 October for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC.
Source: Xbox Wire
What's landing on Xbox from 2 to 6 November
Xbox's weekly preview lists more than 30 games arriving between 2 and 6 November. The espionage RPG Zero Parades: Director's Cut, from the makers of Disco Elysium, launches 3 November, the same day as Football Manager 27 with early Game Pass access. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School follows on 5 November, and Game Pass also picks up the co-op builder Gravhounds and the puzzle platformer Pit of Goblin directly.
Source: Xbox Wire
Final Fantasy XIV's Evercold expansion gets a release date
Final Fantasy XIV's Evercold expansion now launches in early access on 19 February 2027, with full launch on 23 February, a short delay from the original January date. It adds a new ranged physical job called Zephyr, who fights with a crossbow and an avian companion called a Nephele, starting at level 90. The expansion also brings five new Realmship zones, a new Köttr race, and a Final Fantasy VII crossover raid called Beyond the Lifestream in patch 8.01. Pre-orders open 4 November.
Source: PCGamesN
Kane Parsons on a possible Backrooms sequel
Backrooms director Kane Parsons says that if he does make a sequel, he'd use it to poke at parts of the first film he feels didn't accurately capture what the Backrooms concept is really about culturally.
Source: PC Gamer
Trailers
Fortnite's Treasure Hunters season comes to Switch 2
Fortnite's Treasure Hunters season arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 on 1 November, promising a land of adventure, danger and a bit of chaos.
Source: Nintendo (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube)
RealmWalker heads to Steam Early Access
RealmWalker is a third-person action roguelite from Thauma Creations. Players build lethal runs to fight back the Corruption and escape Setsara, and it launches into Steam Early Access on 16 November for PC.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Terrible Lizards launches on Xbox Game Pass
Terrible Lizards is a first-person horror parkour game set at an old Route 66 attraction, Dalton's Dinos, with something dark hiding underneath it. You'll need to run, climb, swing and slide through abandoned dig sites and forgotten caverns to find out what it's hiding, and it's out now on Xbox Game Pass.
Source: Xbox (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube), Xbox Wire
Metro Redux gets a next-gen update
The Metro Redux next-gen update is live now for Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, free for existing owners of both Redux versions. It brings native PS5 and PS5 Pro support, with true 4K at 60FPS or upscaled 4K at 120FPS.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox Wire
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster shows its Skaven assassin
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster is coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. Its story trailer follows Vihneek, a Skaven assassin, skulking through unstable under-empire realms in what's billed as a gritty 2D action-platformer.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube)
Delta Force crosses over with Phantom Blade Zero
Delta Force, the Operator-based extraction shooter, is crossing over with action RPG Phantom Blade Zero. The crossover adds a Legendary Melee Weapon Appearance called Sanguine, and launches on 10 November.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Delta Force updates its Brakkesh map
Delta Force's Season Aurora brings an updated Operations map, Brakkesh 2.0, with new routes and better cover. The season also adds extended Unreal Engine 5 features and a new Assault Operator, Veronica Cardozo, codenamed Martelo, when it launches on 10 November.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Soulframe's Open Preludes chapter is coming
Soulframe's next chapter, Open Preludes, arrives on 6 November.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
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