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My most anticipated indie of 2025 quietly updated its demo build while I was off eating lunch
The King Is Watching, but I wasn't apparently
Strategy: Builder
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In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants
Rout the sprouts
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Petro-horror strategy game Anoxia Station makes Frostpunk look positively welcoming
First demo offers powerful atmosphere and a fussy interface
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I reckon you autobattler sickos will like Annihilate The Spance, probably you RTS nutters too
Spance! The final fronntier
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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025
Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year
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Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim
Too ambitious for its own good?
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Times Of Progress is an elegant, focussed city builder set during the Industrial Revolution
More steam engines for Steam
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The robotic overlords of strategy-RPG Heart Of The Machine have graced us with a release date
Very generous of them
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The creators of pandemic sim Plague Inc are back with 4X city builder After Inc: Revival
Start again in an undead UK
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I play Foxhole as a pacifist medic who refuses to carry a gun but the enemy doesn't seem impressed
Trust me, I'm sort of a doctor
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Overthrown is a city builder where you can throw your whole city at the sky because secretly, you hate city builders
Also supports six player co-op
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Here's a free god sim from the Shotgun King devs in which you Build The Sun
Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56
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In action strategy builder RailGods, Cthulhu is a train and you'd better keep it fed
All aboard the Azathoth Express
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In medieval strategy sim County Of Fortune you run a whole county's worth of quarrelling towns
Unless you persuade them to get along
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Build a blissful art deco sci-fi city as an AI mayor in Technotopia, out this October
If only it weren't for those meddlesome humans
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The blue pools of Planet Coaster 2 make me want to go to a real water park
Bring back summer, please
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Turn heroes into god-beast fodder in this city builder influenced by Black & White and Cult Of The Lamb
Gold Gold! Adventure? Gold!
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Endzone 2 early access review: rebuild humanity as a post-apocalyptic plate-spinner
Drought's a-comin'
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New theme park manager Mars Attracts is the oddest bit of IP necromancy I’ve seen in quite some time
Ack actually this doesn’t look too bad
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Children in Norland can now learn pig farming from their elders, the little idiots
Know more morons
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Cataclismo is not about protecting your towns, it’s about protecting your beautiful staircases
L'esprit de l'escalier