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What you could play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
An otter named Seabert is dressed like an old sea captain. "Oh my gosh! I-I'm so excited for you!" he says. "That house is so beautiful... I'm so glad someone's finally moving in!"
You know immediately whether you want to play this, I think.

After a week of respite, the machinegun of videogame releases has begun firing once more. In fact, it's been joined now by the handgun of demo releases, as June's Steam Next Fest grows nearer. You can expect some writing about our favourites in the days and weeks to come, but for now, here's a handful of full and finished games you could play this weekend.

Tell us what you coulda woulda shoulda been playing in the comments.

A lot of guys with swords run away from a flame-coloured ocean and through a passageway.
Is there 33 here? I'm not counting to find out.

33 Immortals

A co-op hack-and-slasher for 33 players - sort of. In reality, you can play solo or party up with four friends, and then you'll be matchmade with other people in their own parties for large-scale, MMO-style raids, in which you need to coordinate to take down God. Hades seems like an obvious point of comparison to the combat and loop here, but it's also from Thunder Lotus, the makers of Spiritfarer and Jotun.

A woman stands next to a rosebed in front of a thatched cottage, waterfall and trees in the distance.
We may come to regret replacing most of our food crops with roses.

Tales Of Seikyu

Not a part of the Tales Of series of JRPGs, but a farming life sim in which you can, as always, water your crops and befriend villagers, but also shapeshift into mystical creatures. There does appear to be combat, I presume via some local cave, but really the appeal is the peaceful passing of each new season and the charm of making friends with an otter in a sweater.

A big alien crab holds something while two astronauts stand idly by on a pinkish planets.
No Marathon's Sky? Sure, let's go with that.

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions

I was a fan of the original Astroneer and after four or five trailers I hadn't been able to work out how Starseeker differed, or why it wasn't called Astroneer 2. Well, it turns out it's a kind of extraction game in which you have no choice but to play with strangers. The Mixed reviews on Steam suggest I wasn't the only person who failed to realise this, but hey, 'Marathon for kids' is kind of a compelling idea in its own way.

I don't know what I'll be playing this weekend yet, but I'm looking forward to trying Uprising, the new digital expansion for Dune: Imperium. It adds sandworms, which I assume are fairly significant within the fiction.

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Graham Smith

Graham is a former editorial director of Rock Paper Shotgun and editor-in-chief of PC Gamer. He has now been a games journalist for over twenty years, and retains a bottomless appetite for playing new games and tinkering with old ones.