We focus on the great Indie titles that are available now at Fanatical
Project Hospital
October - a month of spooks, frights and thrills - and also a time for some more awesome new-to-store games appearing right here at Fanatical.
Each month, our team searches high and low to bring even more great Indie games to our store alongside amazing AAAs and brilliant bundles.
Without further ado, we've showcased some of the new-to-store titles below that you can enjoy right now.
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Genre: Sci-fi RPG
Steam rating: 'very Positive'
A game for those who love Fallout, Divinity: Original Sin, Wasteland and Shadowrun. Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG allows you to make decisions, fight, study anomalies, survive, craft and find equipment in the anomalous Zone under the Dome, cut off from the outside world.
Choose to control one of the five divisions of the corporation, each with unique opportunities, mechanics and gameplay options. Threaten, persuade and bribe; the game's dialogue system offers a load of mechanics, allowing you to achieve your goal in different ways.
You can teach your character dozens of useful skills. Learn to hack computers, knock down doors, disassemble mechanisms and apply pyrokinesis. In addition, you'll need to fight smart and spend action points carefully.
Use food, stimulants and different types of weapons to gain an advantage over the enemy.
Sin Slayers
Genre: Turn-based strategy RPG
Steam rating: 'Mostly Positive'
Combining RPG with roguelike elements, Sin Slayers is set in a dark fantasy world where your choices determine how challenging the fights and enemies will be.
You can create, equip and lead a team of heroes, and each unit has its own abilities and weaknesses - so be sure to plan your combat strategy accordingly. You’ll journey through stinking primeval forests, bone yards riddled with crypts and the graves of fallen warriors, and other places even the bravest adventurer would fear to tread.
The game features a classic turn-based combat system in the tradition of the best JRPGs, giving you free rein to pit your tactical skills against the wretched inhabitants of the Valley of Fallen Sinners. Travel every path and byway of the Valley, obtain new weapons on the field of battle or by fulfilling quests, gather ingredients for magical elixirs and resources to craft armor and amulets.
If a certain item is beyond your crafting ability, ask the blacksmith in the Old Church for help. The best gear will allow you to challenge the deadliest monsters.
Goat of Duty
Genre: Action shooter
Steam rating: 'Very Positive'
If you thought Goat Simulator was the craziest goat-themed game on the market, you haven't experienced Goat of Duty. The game features fast-paced, intense multiplayer FPS action where you control your own goat in a battle arena.
You can customize your character in crazy 'goatstumes' and 'baaaahttle' it out in four multiplayer modes - free-for-all, Gun Deathmatch, Herd Wars (or team deathmatch for humans) and an original, new mode: the crazy Fus Ro Arena. The game takes FPS gameplay back to its roots, with chaotic fun and powerful weapons that allow you to disintegrate your opponents.
Best of all, you can even play dead - sneakily dragging your own body along the floor under the radar or passing goats in order to spring a surprise attack. If seems like the kind of game you like, and you want to get your friends on board, the Goat of Duty 4-Pack includes keys for you and three friends to play.
Valfaris
Genre: Action platformer
Steam rating: 'Positive'
In this gory retro-style platformer, you take on the role of Therion, a fearless and proud son of Valfaris, who returns to his home to uncover the truth of its doomed fate and to challenge the arcane evil at its very heart.
You'll get to explore a diverse range of tainted environments as you venture ever deeper into this dark world, dominating ranks of deadly enemies and bosses from the weird to the grotesque (and some that are just grotesquely weird). There are certain traits and similarities from Valfaris that can be found in Slain: Back from Hell, and that's because the same team worked on this game.
EVERSPACE
Genre: Sci-fi space simulation
Steam rating: 'Mostly Positive'
Intense dogfights, furious space combat and a wide range of weaponry and devices at your disposal, it's time for EVERSPACE. The game takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises.
Your skills, experience, and talent for improvisation will be tested continuously as you piece together the puzzle of your existence through encounters with interesting characters, each having their own unique part of the story to tell. Collect and mine valuable resources to either repair your ship’s systems or to craft new equipment and modifications for a much-needed advantage... it's your choice.]
Find blueprints for crafting, and hunt for exotic weaponry and equipment. You never know what will drop next. The great thing about EVERSPACE is that, in each exciting playthrough, you will face entirely new situations.
Enjoy countless hours of thrilling gameplay and generated myriad opportunities for individual, meaningful moments to experience. No matter how skilled you are, death is inevitable but is also only the beginning of a much larger journey.
Project Hospital
Genre: Management strategy simulation
Steam rating: 'Very Positive'
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time with Project Hospital. You'll be able to design your own hospital, tweak every detail or use one of the predefined models and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Tutorial levels will guide your through the basics of treating patients and running hospitals, while the sandbox mode offers endless hours of content - building anything from small clinics to huge multi-storey hospitals, starting from scratch or in one of pre-built hospitals or clinics in case you want to jump straight into management.
From contracting different insurance companies to gain access to patients with interesting medical conditions, to performing examinations and surgeries, there's lots to do in this strategy sim. If you've played Two Point Hospital, you'll no doubt love this too!
Love Esquire
Genre: Visual novel RPG
Steam rating: 'Very Positive'
A a romantic-comedy visual novel/dating sim with a touch of old-school RPG combat, quite catchy!
Love Esquire sees you take on the role of a good-for-nothing squire who's on a quest to find man's greatest pleasure. Getting the girl won't be easy though, since most of them are way out of your league.
The game features five dateable Waifus, each with their own unique backstories, plots, and dirty little secrets for you to uncover - and focuses on turn-based combat mechanics, where you can taunt, cheer, heal and loot your way to victory. Will you succeed in finding the greatest pleasure or fail on your quest? You'll find out with multiple endings to encounter.