Weekly Steam Square No. 176: Mycopunk and Tape to Tape Launch
This week's Steam column puts two co-op and run-based titles on release alongside a pixel-art Final Fantasy built on HD-2D presentation, a reminder that Valve's storefront release list now carries the same weight for Japanese players that console and handheld lineups once did.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
This week's Steam release roundup leads with Mycopunk, a four-player co-op looter shooter about washout robots exterminating a fungal outbreak for the corporation SAXON, and Tape to Tape, a roguelite ice hockey game where losing a match ends a run. Also in the column: FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE and its HD-2D pixel art, plus Big Dig, Cucina Stellata, Stupid Never Dies, GONE Fishing, and Dungeon Inn.
The weekly column covers what shipped and what was announced on Steam over the past week, with sale notes attached. The released headliners are a four-player co-op shooter and a roguelite hockey game. Around them sits a stretch of smaller independent titles, from an incremental excavation game with a dog mayor to a one-night psychological horror story about ritual cooking. The most prominent series entry in the list is a pixel-art Final Fantasy built on HD-2D visuals, with camerawork created by pixelating 3D models. The spread points to what the storefront release calendar now looks like: co-op runs, short horror, management sims, and franchise work sharing one shelf.
- Mycopunk: Four-player co-op looter shooter set on a fungus-infected planet; MODs slot into a grid-shaped frame
- Tape to Tape: Roguelite ice hockey; a loss ends the run and the next attempt brings new players and routes
- FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE: Series entry in HD-2D pixel art, with movie scenes made by pixelating 3D models
- Big Dig: Incremental excavation game; compact, with a conclusion in about 3 to 4 hours
- Cucina Stellata: Short psychological horror about 19th-century Italian cooking and an uninvited ingredient
- Stupid Never Dies: 3D action RPG about Davey, the weakest zombie in a monster-ruled dungeon
- GONE Fishing: One-to-eight-player survival horror; fish offerings to an ancient lake monster or become sacrifices
- Dungeon Inn: Management sim with strategy elements; run an inn at a dungeon entrance through a dragon's deal
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.