September 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[Zed Clampet]

Let's ride! The glory of co-op...​

This was absolutely beautiful before I shrunk it and turned it into a gif

Steam Events in September​

Third Person Shooter (TPS) Fest: August 25 – September 1 [live now]
Political Sim Fest: September 8 – September 15
2025 Steam Autumn Sale: September 29 – October 6

Popular Games Releasing in September​

These games are all the games in Valve's "Popular Upcoming" list that can be pre-purchased​

Hell is Us on Steam

If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it's because Earth harbours the worst of demons: humankind. In an isolated country ravaged by infighting, discover the secrets of your past and deal with the repercussions of a mysterious calamity.

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EVERYBODY'S GOLF HOT SHOTS on Steam

Everybody’s favorite golf game series finally returns to the fairway! Hit the green with a variety of unique characters and courses in online and offline AND single and multiplayer modes!

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Pre-purchase NBA 2K26 on Steam

Bragging rights are on the line in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, The W, and Play Now. Showcase your bag of moves with hyper realism, Powered by ProPLAY™, and challenge your friends, or rivals, in NBA 2K26’s competitive modes—and leave no doubt that you wear the crown.

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Pre-purchase Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion on Steam

Feel the exhilaration of fast-paced combat in your fully customized armored suit as you freely explore a deadly and dangerous world on land or in the air. Take on titanic boss battles with alone or with up to two other friends in online co-op!

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Cronos: The New Dawn on Steam

A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

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Firefighting Simulator: Ignite on Steam

Face unpredictable dangers, fight perilous fires with your crew, and save lives in Firefighting Simulator: Ignite. Step into the boots of a U.S. firefighter and play with up to 3 friends or with the help of your NPC controlled crew members.

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Pre-purchase Borderlands 4 on Steam

Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.

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Pre-purchase Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree on Steam

In this Roguelite set in a far-off mystic realm, ancient forces stir, and untold dangers await. As Towa, lead the guardians of the sacred tree in forging strong relationships and powerful swords to fight Magatsu’s forces and determine the future of Shinju Village.

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Pre-purchase SILENT HILL f on Steam

Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.

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Pre-purchase Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on Steam

Race across land, sea, air, space, and time in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! Warp through Travel Rings into new dimensions where something new awaits around every twist and turn.

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Pre-purchase PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC on Steam

PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC modernizes, updates, and enhances the fan favorite 3D Platforming adventure in nearly every way! Venture across PAC-LAND to reclaim the golden fruit and put a stop to the ghosts and their dastardly boss, Spooky!

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Pre-purchase EA SPORTS FC™ 26 on Steam

The Club is Yours in EA SPORTS FC™ 26. Play your way with an overhauled gameplay experience powered by community feedback, Manager Live Challenges that bring fresh storylines to the new season, and Archetypes inspired by greats of the game.

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Pre-purchase Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian on Steam

The story of two protagonists as they rebuild their hometown and seek the hidden truth. Engage in timeline-based command battles and enjoy the easy-to-learn yet deeply engaging synthesis. Plus, take on shop management, explore random dungeons, and more!

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Save 10% on LEGO® Party! on Steam

LEGO® Party! is a 4-player party game that's built different! Compete against your friends in wacky Challenge Zones and 60 hilarious minigames from across your favorite LEGO sets like Pirates, Space, NINJAGO® and more. Play your way! Join your friends no matter their platform locally or online!

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Pre-purchase Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition on Steam

A new action-horror story set in the iconic Alien universe. Play as rogue Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks, sent to investigate a blacksite on Purdan. Fight and survive using your skill, reflexes, and determination against a deadly Xenomorph incursion in this gripping first chapter of a two-part saga.

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Pre-purchase Train Sim World® 6 on Steam

Embark on your next journey and discover the joy of train simulation. Be ready for anything as you master formidable trains across 3 new routes. Unlock new skills and expand your hobby - Expect the Unexpected in Train Sim World 6!

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Pre-purchase FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles on Steam

Featuring fully voiced dialogue, beautifully enhanced graphics, and countless gameplay improvements, the genre-defining tactical RPG makes its long-awaited return.

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[Zed Clampet]

I made a few pictures that were going to tell a story when I turned them into AI videos, but at some point I realized that I couldn't chain them together because of the file limit size here, so you'll have to use your imagination for what happens next to the co-op partners...

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Notice that we have a both a Pac Man and a Sonic game releasing this month

 

[dxchase]

Love me some COOP games! Borderlands 4 is the biggest one for me listed up there as it will be the next big coop game i play with wife since we completed the other 3. As far as price, i dont really want to pay the 70 and im also not spending 130usd just to have a bunch of skins but this will probably be my next purchase gaming wise.

In other gaming 'news', ive been eaten pretty good for the last week. Got a chance to play Gears of War: Reloaded, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Incision and Lost Soul Aside. Haven't really played much of them, but its been nice to dabble a little bit in each.

Im pretty upset that Gears of War: Reloaded doesnt have split-screen coop like their console versions do. This is keeping me from buying the game outright. I really want to jump into its pvp because i used to be really good 'back in the day' but im not paying 45 usd to just get that experience. The game looks really good and seems to run smoothly otherwise but ive played that campaign more than once lol.

I also have been playing a little bit of Destiny Rising the mobile gatcha-version of Destiny (albeit a really generous one) that wasnt made by bungie. Im using the developers android-emulator on the PC to play and it runs pretty well and looks good for a mobile game, of course i get extra bonuses using a PC to play it (ultrawide screen/120fps high-res textures, dlss etc.). The gunplay also feels very destiny. I wont be playing it hardcore but they have a 14-day log in event where we can net a bunch of rewards so..its something.

Ill be dabbling in all these games probably until Borderlands 4 hits. Theres others listed up there (Hell is Us) that im interested in trying so well see.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Gave Hollow Knight a try. I already had it, probably from Humble, so even though I really knew that I wasn't going to like it, it didn't hurt to install it and give it a go. The keybinds didn't make any sense to me. I'm not using the arrow keys to move, and I'm not using "x" to jump, and I'm not using "C" to attack, etc. So I set them like they are in every other game and off I went. I did what I assume was the first boss, but just wasn't feeling it. I actually played better than I expected, but it was the beginning of the game, so it was almost certainly the easiest part.

 

[Colif]

The Future of Gaming.... think I just stop here

I can't afford to play any more. Need 2 jobs, one to support me, one to support game

 

[Frindis]

What is hilarious is that Asmongold probably earned more money farming content on this whale than this whale was bragging that he spent on the game. It's his money, but this is probably one of the top 10 dumbest ways to spend it. Even eating a week's worth of Salt Baes' 24-carat gold flaked stakes would have given you more money's worth. At least you would be eating something real and then flushing it out later on, watching as the money wiggles its way down the pipe.

 

[Colif]

In some circles the people on max resonance are looked up to... I assume. Some people really don't have anything better to spend money on. These are the people this game was made to farm.

Everyone else is best staying away unless they fall into a hole they can't afford to be in or get out of.

You couldn't pay me to play it as they hollowed out what makes Diablo fun just to extract as much value out of the players. The game is playing you.

I will stick to the old games. Lucky its only Warcraft that Blizzard ruined with a remake.

 

[dxchase]

I think sending over 500k to a streamer just to call them "bro" is a more ridiculous situation than whales.

Chinese man sends $550K & family’s life savings to streamer so she’d call him “bro” - Dexerto

A man in China sent his family’s life savings and hundreds of thousands to a live streamer just to hear her call him “bro”.

www.dexerto.com

I think the most money i spent on 1 game would have been Destiny 2 at over 1000 easily but thats also due to buying 3 of the same expansion about 3 or 4 times in a row. Im sitting at almost 6k hours so i dont think its too bad of a trade off lol.

 

[Frindis]

🤤🤤🤤My body is not ready!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATiEK31Tqo

 

[Frindis]

I think sending over 500k to a streamer just to call them "bro" is a more ridiculous situation than whales.

It does seem a bit excessive . Now I am tempted to get on her stream and get her to say "Bro" for free. I can try to sell that I am a very handsome and strong Norwegian Viking with my own ship and crew. Jokes aside, I hope the family gets the money back. Also, he probably deserves his own "bro" chat emote that he can use on the stream when he gets out of his straightjacket.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Hmm, after about 18 years of playing games every day, this is day two of not playing anything. I did open games yesterday and today so that I can keep my Steam year-end review streak alive

 

[Pifanjr]

My friends and I played some more Barotrauma. We had to destroy an enemy sub, so we stocked up on ammo and made sure every turret was fully stocked and loaded with armour piercing rounds.

When we finally got to the enemy sub, it was being attacked by a large hammerhead and a swarm of smaller aliens and was already sinking. I just positioned our ship above their and my friends unloaded on the aliens and enemy ship, tearing everything apart. I don't think the enemy sub hit us even once.

We sadly did have two deaths when we encountered a swarm of aliens that managed to crawl inside of our ship and killed two bots.

We then had another death when I dropped my friend off at a cave to go mining while I went back to loot an alien we killed. My friend was attacked and tried to get back to the ship, but when I hurried back to him I accidentally rammed him and he got stuck between our docked shuttle and the hull of the ship.

I then proceeded to almost kill that same (respawned) friend and two of our bots when I took them along trying to move our shuttle into the cave and got it stuck, with an alien attacking it and energy supplies slowly dwindling. I had to swim out to kill the alien and jiggle the shuttle to get it free.

After mining the stuff we needed myself, I set the sub to autopilot to the nearby station while I dropped off my loot. However, there was apparently another large alien right by the outpost and while I was doing inventory management we somehow lost another bot.

We still made a profit though, so all in all not a bad session.

 

[Zed Clampet]

When we finally got to the enemy sub, it was being attacked by a large hammerhead and a swarm of smaller aliens and was already sinking. I just positioned our ship above their and my friends unloaded on the aliens and enemy ship, tearing everything apart. I don't think the enemy sub hit us even once.

I don't know why, but I love it when games have NPCs fighting each other. Adds a lot of life to the map. The very first base we had in V Rising was on a major trade route, and I would go outside and there would be loot dropped all over the place. There are also a few areas in Dune where different factions fight. And, of course, ARK was non-stop dino fighting. If you drew aggro from a dino you couldn't take on, you just distracted them with other dinos. The Spinosaurus, for instance, loves fish, so if you are near water just leap in, and invariably the Spino will lose interest in you and go after the fish.

 

[Zed Clampet]

🤤🤤🤤My body is not ready!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATiEK31Tqo

WOW how is that so much better looking than Skyrim?

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@Colif That Waterpark Simulator is hilarious and hectic. People leave puddles all over the place after they get out of the pool, and anyone who steps on one ragdolls in a pretty hilarious way, then you have grown adults taking dumps in the pool...I didn't have anyone drown yet

 

[Pifanjr]

WOW how is that so much better looking than Skyrim?

Skyrim is almost 14 years old now, PCs are generally a lot more powerful and can handle better, dynamic lighting and larger textures. I'm pretty sure there are Skyrim mods that look even better than this.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Skyrim is almost 14 years old now, PCs are generally a lot more powerful and can handle better, dynamic lighting and larger textures. I'm pretty sure there are Skyrim mods that look even better than this.

So much for me believing the people who keep claiming it's Bethesda's engine that's the problem.

 

[neogunhero]

So much for me believing the people who keep claiming it's Bethesda's engine that's the problem.

AFAIK Fallout London did have some engine level bugs they just couldn’t seem to iron out. Same engine, just different versions of it. I still think programmers these days have a lot more resources on how to deal with those engine level bugs. Speaking of which, I really should give that mod a go.

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Still playing Enshrouded but starting to get a bit bored of it. It's a lot of work for a single person to do. Perhaps it's a bit on me too with how I'm approaching the game, I started to focus on getting a lot of the NPC crafters at my base, which all come with a long laundry list of needs and missions of their own. So now I have 5 NPC crafters all barking at me that they need help with something, when all I want to do is build and explore. I could just put that off for now, but I know I'm missing out on a lot of stuff by not doing their quests, it's a bit of a headache. I'm glad that I have a lot of stuff to do, but it's too much stuff and becoming slightly overwhelming. Maybe I should check out sandbox mode.

I wanted something more straight forward, with a clear goal and clear gameplay, so I picked up Arco on Steam. It's an action strategy game where you get into turn based combat scenarios where the enemies move only when you do. It's a bit like a top-down SUPERHOT where you plan out your moves before executing them.

What I wasn’t expecting was a compelling fantasy story of Mesoamerican cowboys and bandits as well as some light, intriguing exploration elements. Between battles you explore an overworld map filled with smaller areas you can explore filled with people to talk to, secrets to find, items to collect and sometimes hidden combat encounters.

The combat itself is hard, there is definitely a bit of a learning curve to it. Once you start unlocking new abilities and become more confident in your moves, it's a lot of fun clearing out a screen full of enemies. The enemy types have some nice variety to them as well, though I'm only 2 hours into it. There is a cool guilt mechanic, where hard decisions you make on the road can weigh heavy on your conscious, resulting in ghosts appearing in the combat encounters that do not stop when you do. They constantly move towards you, causing you to have to act quickly.

It's a great change of pace from the types of games I normally play. I tried Rage 2 for maybe the third time, and just can't pull myself together to play it. I keep thinking that I would enjoy a fairly mindless FPS romp with a checklist of objectives to cross off, thinking it will be something fun after a hard day, but I just can't do it. I need something more engaging and Arco is just that.

 

[BeardyHat]

Started playing The Last Express and so far, I'm mostly lost. I have some idea of what's going on, but I mostly feel like I'm wandering the train and waiting for things to happen to me.

I may need to consult a strategy guide.

Also playing more Wargroove 2 to see what my friend sees in it. Still not loving it, but I am at least enjoying it a bit more. But I do still feel like I'd rather be playing Advance Wars.

 

[neogunhero]

You guys ever think nostalgically about a game you played in the past, suddenly want to replay it, get excited as you boot it up, then immediately remember all the bad parts that you don't want to go through again? That's how I felt this weekend with Homefront The Revolution.

It's the sequel to the first Homefront game, this time with a semi-open world, side missions to take you away from the main story, and pretty decent weapon customization for its time. It's very much a B-movie type of game, where it's quite janky and unpolished, but you can tell it was made with love by the developers. I'm not too crazy about it's pro-American propaganda story, but the gameplay was very solid.

Then I remember all the annoying stuff about the game. The long unskippable cutscenes, boring characters, constantly chattering in your ear via the radio which you can't turn off, clunky UI, clunky motorcycle controls, idiotic enemy AI, all of that. I immediately got turned off of the idea of doing a replay of this game.

I really shouldn't let that stuff bother me as much as it does. I should just play the game again until I reach said annoying bugs and at that point make my decision if I want to continue or not. Just because I remember them being bad, perhaps this time around I can tolerate them more. That's just not how my brain works though, I think of all the bad things about a game then don't get excited to play anymore. I'm feeling this way a bit with Enshrouded too, thinking of the 20 quests I have sitting in my log, all the farming I need to do, I'd rather not play than get annoyed by stuff like that.

Dead Rising is a big one for me too when it comes to this. I really love 1 and 2, have beaten them both back in the day on PS3, but I can remember how frustrating both of those games can get especially towards the very end. Throw in lack of auto save and that's a headache just waiting to happen. They are fantastic games, maybe the remaster of DR1 addresses these issues, but they are very frustrating to play to the point where I'd rather not touch them again.

 

[Pifanjr]

I don't know why, but I love it when games have NPCs fighting each other. Adds a lot of life to the map. The very first base we had in V Rising was on a major trade route, and I would go outside and there would be loot dropped all over the place. There are also a few areas in Dune where different factions fight. And, of course, ARK was non-stop dino fighting. If you drew aggro from a dino you couldn't take on, you just distracted them with other dinos. The Spinosaurus, for instance, loves fish, so if you are near water just leap in, and invariably the Spino will lose interest in you and go after the fish.

I love it as well. It was honestly a shame how little there was of it in Skyrim, which supposedly was in an active civil war. I'm not sure why they didn't add more of it. I feel it was fairly common in the Fallout games, so it's not like Bethesda didn't know how to do it.

Barotrauma doesn't have a lot of it, simply because there aren't that many factions. Enemy subs only show up if you pick a specific mission type and otherwise most enemies are just various types of alien wildlife who don't attack each other (though they will eat each other's corpses). Though maybe there are some interactions I haven't seen yet.

You guys ever think nostalgically about a game you played in the past, suddenly want to replay it, get excited as you boot it up, then immediately remember all the bad parts that you don't want to go through again? That's how I felt this weekend with Homefront The Revolution.

It's the sequel to the first Homefront game, this time with a semi-open world, side missions to take you away from the main story, and pretty decent weapon customization for its time. It's very much a B-movie type of game, where it's quite janky and unpolished, but you can tell it was made with love by the developers. I'm not too crazy about it's pro-American propaganda story, but the gameplay was very solid.

Then I remember all the annoying stuff about the game. The long unskippable cutscenes, boring characters, constantly chattering in your ear via the radio which you can't turn off, clunky UI, clunky motorcycle controls, idiotic enemy AI, all of that. I immediately got turned off of the idea of doing a replay of this game.

I really shouldn't let that stuff bother me as much as it does. I should just play the game again until I reach said annoying bugs and at that point make my decision if I want to continue or not. Just because I remember them being bad, perhaps this time around I can tolerate them more. That's just not how my brain works though, I think of all the bad things about a game then don't get excited to play anymore. I'm feeling this way a bit with Enshrouded too, thinking of the 20 quests I have sitting in my log, all the farming I need to do, I'd rather not play than get annoyed by stuff like that.

Dead Rising is a big one for me too when it comes to this. I really love 1 and 2, have beaten them both back in the day on PS3, but I can remember how frustrating both of those games can get especially towards the very end. Throw in lack of auto save and that's a headache just waiting to happen. They are fantastic games, maybe the remaster of DR1 addresses these issues, but they are very frustrating to play to the point where I'd rather not touch them again.

Usually I don't get so far as to actually install the game, my memory is too good to forget about the bad parts (for now). I do occasionally play a game for nostalgia's sake and then quit after a few hours, but that's mostly because it's hard for me to stay invested when I already know the game.

One of my favourite parts of playing games is experiencing new things, so when replaying something I miss out on that part of the experience and I'm much less likely to stay invested.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Monster Train 2 has now leapt past Monster Train 1 in my heart. My problem was I was playing the same people all the time to level them, and I really wasn't getting along with their champions. Now I'm playing other factions and finding very fun synergies.

 

[neogunhero]

I don't know why, but I love it when games have NPCs fighting each other.

Watch Dogs 2 has an amazing feature with this. You can select an NPC and call in either the police to arrest them or a gang member to assassinate them. You do this enough times, alternating between cops and gangsters, and eventually you have an all out brawl in the streets unfolding as you are literally in the center of it. As long as you don't aggro anyone, you can just sit back and watch it all happen. If all goes correctly, more cops and gangsters will continue to come in for a while until the last man standing makes it out. It's so much fun to watch all of this happen, sometimes I'll grab my drone and fly over the action but they can shoot it down eventually.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Watch Dogs 2 has an amazing feature with this. You can select an NPC and call in either the police to arrest them or a gang member to assassinate them. You do this enough times, alternating between cops and gangsters, and eventually you have an all out brawl in the streets unfolding as you are literally in the center of it. As long as you don't aggro anyone, you can just sit back and watch it all happen. If all goes correctly, more cops and gangsters will continue to come in for a while until the last man standing makes it out. It's so much fun to watch all of this happen, sometimes I'll grab my drone and fly over the action but they can shoot it down eventually.

I loved WD2. I would go into a huge enemy building and call in a tip to the police, implicating someone in a murder. The police would show up and start talking to the guy, who after a time would pull a gun and start shooting. Most of the time, it didn't end until there was just 1 cop left. He would leave, and I'd just walk over to the objective and complete it. Did it make the game too easy? Yes, but causing all that chaos more than made up for it. Someone should make a game where that's all you do.

 

[Johnway]

Started playing The Last Express and so far, I'm mostly lost. I have some idea of what's going on, but I mostly feel like I'm wandering the train and waiting for things to happen to me.

I may need to consult a strategy guide.

Also playing more Wargroove 2 to see what my friend sees in it. Still not loving it, but I am at least enjoying it a bit more. But I do still feel like I'd rather be playing Advance Wars.

Ah yes, The last express. We had it on our old p166 and yeah one of the greatest and worst things is that its incredibly open ended. You can pretty much do a wide variety of things or ignoring certain things at certain times and it influences the outcome significantly.

yeah a walkthrough is needed tbh. You can wind and rewind time to quite easily mess around and get the golden ending. My brother and i got quite stumped by the second chapter with the golden egg . We just couldn't get past the second ending of just getting a whole load of gold and getting off early and going off into the sunset.


playingg Path of exile still and i've got the 12 challenges done and i'm working on a few other ones atm. Its all grindy stuff, so i'm in no rush, but i need to focus on my next plan of action. i'll probablt beat the 2 end game bosses to get the void stones and polish off any other maps before working on the new content.

 

[neogunhero]

Someone should make a game where that's all you do.

We need a NPC chaos enabling simulator game. I'm not talking about a game like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator which is fun to mess with, but something where you are causing NPCs to react to certain things in order to complete objectives. It could be a mix of that game, WD2 and Hitman. You'd have a lot of freedom on how to complete the objectives, you can be as creative and stealthy or as loud and chaotic as you'd like. Basically an immersive sim with NPCs you can somewhat control and get to do what you want. I'd play the hell out of that game.