Once upon a time, there was a charming young peasant looking for a fresh start…

Lakeburg Legacies is a social-based village management sim focused on pairing up your townsfolk to make the most effective, and most loved up, couples. Think you’ve made the perfect match? Then follow your families generation after generation and watch their lineages blossom or wilt. See what effects they have on your realm!

But don’t let yourself get too carried away in the matters of love, or your people might go starving. Balance production, trade, housing, and more as you set out to create a happy -and healthy- settlement. Oh, and you never know what sordid affairs might go on in Lakeburg, so keep an eye out for random events and visitors that might pay you a cheeky visit.

So, make your kingdom grow and thrive through the power of love — or to hell with happiness and focus on creating the strongest, most skilled families to boost your production! How long will it take you to crown a sovereign?

Cowboys, Settlers & Gunslingers

America in the 1800s: The trails to the West. Settlers and pioneers are committed on advancing further and further towards the Pacific coast - in search of a better life, business opportunities or adventure. They build farms, raise cattle, dig for gold or built settlements and towns.

A small find of gold often is enough to draw hundreds of daring adventurers while quickly a small settlement becomes a flourishing town with saloons, merchants, gambling, adventurers and gunslingers. But nothing lasts forever and a thriving settlement can become a ghost town quickly, once opportunities and resources run out.

Enter this breathtakingly exciting time and conquer the Wild West. Start from being a lonesome survivor, find a place to settle down and work yourself up the property ladder. Maybe you can even become mayor to one of the hustling and bustling towns. You know no limitations.

Being a victim of a robbery your life in the harsh desert of the Western territories hangs in the balance. Fighting against the odds and the elements your ability to survive will be tested. But opportunity waits at every corner. Start by building a farm and providing for yourself. Then produce food, take care of livestock or hunt for animals and sell their meat and leather to merchants or other settlers. Once you have established a decent ranch, other pioneers may decide to stay and ask for permission to settle down.

And before you know it, you are responsible for building a town with all its iconic locations such as the Saloon, Sheriff’s office, stores, blacksmith and even hotels. You’ll shape not only the future of the settlement, but the settlement itself. But bandits lurk at every corner, so you better learn to use weapons and defend yourself, your trading caravans as well as the township. Hopefully you will find a partner and have an heir - so your Wild West Dynasty can leave a lasting impression.

Water's cut. Rent's due. Jobs are scarce. Time to get rich. Enter the Slaughter League and win against all the odds in a dizzying array of lethal multiplayer races. In this competitive, multiplayer platformer party game, there can only be one winner, so kiss those friendships goodbye!

Start a farming colony and grow it into a vibrant community. Choose from traditional animals and natural produce or opt for robo-cows and gene-spliced crops. You can take a break from farming by mining, socializing with colonists, finding a love interest, exploring alien ruins, and so much more!

The Immortal Mayor is a construction & management sim game where you play as a local deity that watches over the land. Befriend other gods and use magic to help your residents build the town, thereby earning the offerings of your people and growing your town.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a first person, action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft studio, in collaboration with Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney.

Built using the latest iteration of the Snowdrop engine, and developed exclusively for the new generation of consoles and PC, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora brings to life the alluring world of Pandora with all of its beauty and danger in an immersive, open world experience.

In this new, standalone story, play as a Na’vi and embark on a journey across the Western Frontier, a never-before-seen part of Pandora. Explore a living and reactive world inhabited by unique creatures and new characters, and push back the formidable RDA forces that threaten it.

Companies are colonizing Mars and settlers are lining up for a chance to start anew. Play as a colony architect and utilize terraforming technology to create a new home for your colonists, otherwise you may find them packing for a rival base!

STASIS: BONE TOTEM is a thrilling and spine-tingling journey into the unknown fathoms of the icy ocean and the terrors that await a family. They will uncover a threat far beyond their wildest dreams. An isometric adventure created by the team behind STASIS and BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION.

Cross Blitz is an exciting turn-based RPG card battler set in a wondrous world teeming with vibrant characters and fierce battles. Explore Cross Dawn Isle and uncover its secrets as you level up, craft new cards, build the perfect deck and battle your way to victory!

A chaotic Battle Royale inside a furniture store where everything is a weapon.

Immerse yourself in an action-packed cyberpunk universe where the fate of humanity itself hangs in the balance. The Morphs are preparing their final attack, determined to enslave every civilization in the Solar System — and it's your mission to fight back!

In 1992, Flashback revolutionized action gaming and gained legendary status, ranking among the 100 best video games in history.

Today, Paul Cuisset, the creator of the original game, invites you to play again as Conrad B. Hart, the young agent of the GBI (Galactic Bureau of Investigation).

In the 22nd century, the peace of the United Worlds extends throughout the Solar System — but this tranquility is threatened by the Morph invasion led by the fearsome General Lazarus.

In search of his lifelong friend, Ian, and with the help of his few allies — including A.I.S.H.A., his iconic AI-powered weapon — Conrad, once again, dives into a heart-pounding adventure full of twists, turns and revelations!

A gripping, fluid and intricate platform shooter, including exploration, puzzle solving and, of course, adventure!

The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Turn a ramshackle blacksmith shop into a successful enterprise in a challenging and endlessly varied world! Deal with local bandits, merchants, priests, as well as French and English soldiers. Manage workers with various quirks, improve facilities and tools to create better merchandise, decorate your smithy to attract high-paying customers and most importantly – try not to get yourself beheaded!

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Not all heroes are born, many are forged by the finest Hero School – yours. Build and manage your very own hero academy within this simulation-RPG genre blend! Nurture a unique, ever-growing roster of students and fight in strategic turn-based-combat as you experience a narrative spanning over ten years.

A STORY SPANNING TEN YEARS
Uncover the truth behind an ancient dragon awakening to wreak havoc across the world of Valthiria. Can you revive the academy and unite kingdoms to rid the world of evil?

YOU’RE IN CONTROL: CREATE & MANAGE YOUR OWN HERO SCHOOL

CURATE A CURRICULUM FOR YOUR STUDENTS
Allocate students time across multiple different classes to shape them into heroes. Your leadership in the classroom will influence how students behave on quests!

PLAN, FORECAST, EXECUTE, IN STRATEGIC TURN-BASED COMBAT
Select your party for each quest and take your students out for in-field experience as you fight Valthiria’s monsters in turn-based-combat.

ALL WORK, NO PLAY?
The students can’t always be studying or getting in-field experience, right? Take part in swimming, fishing, eating and snowman building competition across the seasons!


The Last Worker is an immersive narrative adventure centered around a lone worker’s last stand in an increasingly automated world, The Last Worker is a unique blend of work simulation and stealth strategic gameplay.

The game is set in a lonely, oppressive but strangely beautiful environment, with characters designed by comics legend Mick McMahon.

Kurt works for the world’s largest retailer and is forced to choose between capitalism or activism. Having dedicated his life to work, Kurt’s loyalty is put to the test when a group of activists ask him to dismantle Jüngle from the inside.

Aboard his corporate issued flying JünglePod and armed with his multi-purpose JüngleGun, Kurt dispatches countless products from a fulfilment centre the size of the sunken city of Manhattan.

Kurt (voiced by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) has dedicated his life to Jüngle, with only his co-bot, Skew (Jason Isaacs) to keep him company. But when S.P.E.A.R., a group of activists, asks Kurt to help dismantle Jüngle from the inside, Kurt is forced to discover his employer’s dark underbelly.

The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought provoking and inspiring story with rich characters performed by an all-star cast starring, Jason Isaacs, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Hewlett, Zelda Williams and Tommie Earl Jenkins.

Just when you thought it was over, the battle rages on. Plunge back into the pixel-perfect world of Ion Fury: welcome to Aftershock, the electrifying continuation of the Fury odyssey. With Neo DC teetering on the brink of annihilation and a vengeful Dr. Heskel on the prowl, Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison's personal vendetta is about to boil over. Lace up your boots and once again become Neo DC's last hope against Dr. Heskel's nightmarish vision. The fate of the city rests in your hands. Are you ready to face the Fury?

Diluvian is a sail-punk simulation game in a context of exile due to the rising waters. Survive as you expand your community in your lighthouse.

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

Raidborn is a first-person action-RPG. Immerse yourself in the fantastic world of Runia, explore dynamically generated levels, experience ferocious combat, and choose from a variety of exciting skills.

Voidigo is a chaotic and colorful roguelite shooter with a focus on dynamic and unique boss fights. Equip the many weapons and powerups to fight back the void corruption throughout the worlds. Hunt or be hunted.

GALAHAD 3093 is a mech-based hero shooter set in a sci-fi future imbued with Arthurian legend. Choose your favorite Knight and customize their Lance—a menacing mech built for war—to fight in 32 player arena combat. Collect mods and weapons to upgrade your Lance and craft your own playstyle!

Six Days in Fallujah is a first-person tactical military shooter that recreates true stories of Marines, Soldiers, and Iraqi civilians who fought Al Qaeda during the toughest urban battle since 1968.

RAILGRADE is a management sim about using railways to transport resources and power industry on an off-world colony. As administrator of the planet, help restore industrial production following a disastrous collapse of infrastructure.


Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

Best PC Games of 2023 - Page 55

Lakeburg Legacies

Wild West Dynasty

Against All Odds

One Lonely Outpost

The Immortal Mayor

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Farlanders

STASIS: BONE TOTEM

Cross Blitz

Retail Royale

Flashback 2

Thief Simulator 2

Anvil Saga

Revival: Recolonization

Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 2

The Last Worker

Ion Fury: Aftershock

Diluvian Winds

Luck be a Landlord

RAIDBORN

Voidigo

GALAHAD 3093

Six Days in Fallujah

RAILGRADE

Definitely Not Fried Chicken