April 2024 Humble Choice (2024)

Stratégie et Simulation

Build your ideal society during an era that transformed mankind in Victoria 3, the latest installment in Paradox Entertainment’s majestic grand strategy series. You’re invited to lead dozens of 19th century world nations, choosing its path as you see fit. Will you build a peaceful agrarian society, or an expansionist industrial powerhouse? To succeed as a nation, you’ll have to balance the needs and desires of your people amidst the ever changing tide of innovation, while navigating the global web of alliances and rivalries and the ever-present threat of war. Do you have what it takes to be a true leader?

Action et Aventure

From the twisted mind behind the seminal Dead Space, this third-person narrative survival horror game thrusts you straight into Hell in space—namely, the Black Iron Prison, a maximum security penitentiary on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. The inmates are transforming into unspeakably horrific monstrosities, bent on your annihilation. To survive, you must scavenge what you can to bolster your arsenal of weapons, gear, and abilities, and master the brutal and brilliantly designed combat, which incorporates gunplay, close-quarters combat, and a sick gravity weapon that’ll come in handy in Jupiter’s dead moon, where all the odds are stacked against you.

Stratégie

Rewrite the saga of human history in your image in HUMANKIND. In this sweeping, innovative strategy game, you’ll guide a Neolithic tribe at the dawn of human history and on through the ages, blending real-world human cultures to mold a civilization that’s uniquely yours. From ancient Egypt to contemporary America, HUMANKIND offers a vast palette of cultures to pick from as your civilization evolves. Steer scientific breakthroughs, culture-defining choices, and more as you work to outmaneuver your rivals over the course of history and write a narrative that will echo through the ages.

Action, Indé et Aventure

Embark on a sartorial adventure with Fashion Police Squad, where fashion faux pas are the enemy, and style is your weapon. In this vivid old-school FPS, your job is to purge the city of Trendopolis from the likes of socks in sandals and other fashion crimes. Your toolkit includes essential tools for correcting style violations, from the dye shotgun for neutralizing dull colors, to the sewing needle machine gun for dealing with loose suits. You’ll navigate the urban jungle with a swinging mechanic that’ll make Spider-Man jealous in your mission to confront the fashion world's fiercest bosses.

Stratégie

Turn the red planet into a green and idyllic nexus of civilization in this slick and cleverly designed turn-based colony builder. Success in this planetary endeavor depends on numerous factors: playing to the strengths of the leader you choose, making smart use of Mars’ natural resources, and some good old luck. Every run in Terraformers is randomly generated, so the planet’s layout will always be a surprise. So too are the projects you can construct every turn, which encourages experimentation and adaptability. From nuking the poles to geo-engineer the atmosphere to planting plane-wide forests, it’s all on the table!

Indé, Aventure, RPG et Stratégie

If you’re a fan of series like Fire Emblem and Tactics Ogre, this hidden gem is for you. 2D turn-based strategy is the name of the game, with deep mechanics, fine degrees of customization, and a stirring, epic narrative designed with replayability in mind. Grandness is the key theme here. You control an army composed of numerous squads, each member of which can be customized from among over 50 classes. Battles take place on the sprawling world map, so you have to take into account variables like terrain and strategic resources. Can you bring peace to this war-torn land?

Indé, Aventure, RPG et Stratégie

Monster tamers, your next adventure awaits! As a newly minted Battle Researcher, your job is to catch and tame the eponymous Coromon that roam the world of Velua. There are over 100 of these charming critters to collect and form into squads, with varying elemental affinities, special skills, and traits. Every action you take with your monsters costs stamina, so battling with your rivals will require canny resource management and knowledge of specific match-ups. Get ready to build your stable, brave the secrets and hazards of this lush hand-drawn pixel world, and take on all comers!

Aventure

Prepare to get whisked away to Victorian England for a spot of folk horror in The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow. You play as the learned Thomasina Bateman, an antiquarian writing a book on the barrows of England. Summoned to a sleepy village, you arrive only to find yourself surrounded by unfriendly locals with your host mysteriously absent. Before long, things take a turn for the Lovecraftian—the less said, the better. If you’re partial to lavish 2D graphics, point and click adventures, rich casts of characters and evolving storylines, then you should be very excited about your trip to the cozy village of Belway.