So first a game with a mathematical moniker, Manifold Garden. For a puzzle game, it does look stunning with these patterns that seem to extend to infinity:

Endless Zone is a shooter made to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sega. I think it was released for free for a limited time - I can’t be sure since they don’t distribute it in Japan.

Another title from Sega, albeit a cancelled one from 2012, is Golden Axed: A Cancelled Prototype. I can’t try it out either since it’s once again region restricted, but the demo looked quite fun - while the gameplay does look dated.

9th Dawn III may be lacking in the graphical department (to be honest it looks really ugly but who am I to judge) but it does seem like a featureful open world RPG with lots of things to do.

We have talked about Ghostrunner before: it’s a cyberpunk themed Dishonored-like experience. It looks very nice and runs very smoothly with Proton:

Neighbours back From Hell is a remaster of a 13 years old game where you play pranks on your neighbors for laughs.

Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense is not a new game, (it was released in 2018) but made it to Steam in October 2020. As you can imagine, it’s a Tower Defense game - yet a very colorful one at that.

Missing tactical RPGs? Ikenfell is a new one in the genre, using very pixelated graphics if you are into that. It does look cute:

Waiting for the latest book from JRR Martin? I can’t help you there, look like we will never get the real ending. But who cares? You can now recreate your version of the story with A Game of Thrones: The Board Game. Yeah, it’s a typical board game recreation in computer format:

Missing the Amnesia series (Frictional Games actually open-sourced one of their older game recently)? There’s a new one called Amnesia: Rebirth (it has a native client too, but it was apparently full of bugs at release while the Proton version was not) and it looks like it’s as scary as ever. I could not last more than 20 minutes in Outlast, so I guess I will skip this one too:

Sex with Stalin? You play the role of a time traveler who gets to meet with Stalin. Speak with him, uncover his secrets… and sleep with him I guess?

There’s a Taiwanese game in this list, and we are not talking about some sub-par indie shovel-ware. Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is definitely some AAA level action game which has nothing to envy to its Japanese counterparts. Even monsters are quite original. This is going in my wishlist:

Vigil: The Longest Night is side-scroller action horror RPG which takes places in a world plunged in darkness.

I’m tempted to check out Manifold Garden and **Xuan Yuan **later on. Once I get around my backlog.