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  • Anchors Aweigh: Hooded Horse Reveals Sci-Fi Roguelite ‘Rogue Carrier’

    Anchors Aweigh: Hooded Horse Reveals Sci-Fi Roguelite ‘Rogue Carrier’

    Strategy fans, it is time to map out a whole new set of logistical nightmares, because the indie genre-masters at Hooded Horse have just dropped an announcement that will have city-builder and roguelite enthusiasts instantly hitting that Steam wishlist button.

    Partnering with developer Wild Fields, Hooded Horse has officially revealed Rogue Carrier—a unique blend of deep colony management and tense roguelite progression set across the infinite, hostile oceans of a sentient alien world.

    If you have ever wanted to captain the ultimate floating megastructure while the planet itself tries to drag you into the abyss, this one is for you.

    The Premise: Survival on a Sentient Sea

    In Rogue Carrier, an interstellar scientific expedition goes catastrophically wrong, leaving your crew stranded on an unknown planet known as Keeling-IV. With your mothership destroyed, your new home is The Behemoth—a colossal, ocean-faring science carrier that acts as the physical foundation for your mobile colony.

    Your goals haven’t changed: you still need to explore the surface and analyse local anomalies. However, the stakes have drastically shifted from scientific discovery to pure, unadulterated survival.

    Unlike your typical static city-builder, you will be plotting waypoints across an expansive oceanic landscape, deploying recon craft, and harvesting resources from scattered islands.

    Key Gameplay Features

    • Build Vertically on Limited Deck Space: Space on The Behemoth is a premium resource. You will have to manage Tetris-like placement of over 80 building options—including solar panels, factories, crew housing, and R&D labs—to create powerful layout synergies.
    • Balancing the Ship (Literally): Poor layout planning doesn’t just hurt your production lines; an imbalanced ship will capsize more easily when hit by the planet’s erratic weather.
    • The Planet Fights Back: The world you are exploiting is fully aware and highly reactive. As you extract resources and pollute the ecosystem, the planet escalates its counter-attacks, throwing everything from severe storms to massive aquatic leviathans at your hull.
    • Die, Learn, Repeat: The destruction of your ship is not the end. Following true roguelite fashion, failed runs trigger a persistent loop. You will carry accumulated data and unlockable technologies across parallel universes, exploring 50 distinct scenarios and five potential endings.

    “Will you embrace polluting the world and arming your ship to the teeth to escape quickly, or will you try to balance survival with the temperament of a living world?”

    Why Strategy Fans Should Care

    Hooded Horse has a stellar track record for publishing complex, deeply engaging strategy titles (think Against the Storm, Manor Lords, and Terra Invicta). Seeing them back in a game that merges the high-stakes layout planning of a colony sim with the emergent storytelling of a roguelite oceanic expedition is incredibly promising.

    Rogue Carrier is slated to bring its deep production chains, tense naval combat, and multiversal progression system to PC soon.

    What do you think of Rogue Carrier’s unique blend of seafaring and colony management? Let us know in the comments below!

    Find out more here

    #RogueCarrier #HoodedHorse #WildFields #StrategyGames #ColonySim #IndieGames #PCGaming #Roguelite #GamingNews #TechMash

  • Build, Explore, Survive: Solo-Dev Gem ‘Settler’s Domain’ Brings Strategic Pixel Art Goodness to Steam

    Build, Explore, Survive: Solo-Dev Gem ‘Settler’s Domain’ Brings Strategic Pixel Art Goodness to Steam

    If there is one thing we love here at TechMash, it’s the sheer magic of indie games—especially those crafted by a lone developer pouring their heart, soul, and coding hours into something special. Enter rick, a solo developer who has spent the last two years building a gorgeous, thoughtful colony sim that strategy fans will definitely want to keep on their radar.

    Say hello to Settler’s Domain.

    Combining charming pixel graphics with deep, thoughtful, and rewarding strategic gameplay, Settler’s Domain tasks you with establishing and expanding a thriving colony in beautiful but unforgiving unknown lands.

    What is Settler’s Domain All About?

    At its core, Settler’s Domain is a strategy game about survival, exploration, and expansion. You begin with minimal resources and the ultimate goal of keeping your settlers alive while transforming a tiny camp into a bustling domain.

    But it’s not just a peaceful city builder—the world is alive, procedural, and full of both opportunity and danger.

    Key Features to Get Excited About

    • Deep Resource Management: Managing your ever-growing population is a delicate balancing act. More settlers mean more productivity, but they also bring a higher demand for housing, medicine, and food. Balancing your supplies—especially when the harsh winter hits and crops stop growing—is vital.
    • A Massive Tech Tree: With over 80 unique structures to build, you can research and unlock everything from basic tents to advanced medicine huts, quarries, and even a “jammery” to keep your colony thriving.
    • Exploration and Dynamic Diplomacy: You aren’t alone in these lands. As you clear away the unknown on the procedural map, you’ll encounter neighbouring settlements. It is entirely up to you how to handle them. Will you engage in peaceful diplomacy and forge trade agreements? Or will you choose hostility and annex them by force?

    Why Solo-Dev Projects Hit Different

    There is a distinct passion that shines through in solo-developed projects like this. Rick’s art style takes clear inspiration from classic GBA-era visuals, giving it an instantly nostalgic, cosy aesthetic that perfectly contrasts the intense, punishing tactical choices you have to make to survive. It’s got the micro-management charm of Banished blended seamlessly with the macro-exploration elements of classic 4X games.

    Release Date Update: After nearly two years of hard work, rick has officially announced that Settler’s Domain is launching on Steam on August 25, 2026.

    If you love city builders, colony sims, or classic RTS games, you can head over to Steam right now to try out the demo and add it to your wishlist. Supporting solo developers is what keeps the gaming industry fresh, and Settler’s Domain looks like it’s going to be an absolute gem.

    Are you going to build a peaceful trading empire or conquer the map? Let us know your strategy in the comments below!

    Find out more here

    #IndieGames #SettlersDomain #StrategyGames #TechMash #GamingNews #SoloDev #PixelArt #CityBuilder #SteamGames #ColonySim

  • Dawn Apart is out on Steam now

    Dawn Apart is out on Steam now

    Space, spacecraft, aliens, distant planets, exploring and building vast industrial complexes are what await players of the Dawn Apart game. In this game, the player will search for resources, build their facilities and then protect them from the aliens looking to steal the end products. The Dawn Apart game is out now on Steam for PC.

    To find out more about the Dawn Apart game, go to the official game website here https://astralogical.org/ or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/5FzKd

    #DawnApart #games #gaming #gamers #automate #scifi #spacetravel #pcgames #ColonySim #EarlyAccess #Steam #IndustrialTechnologyandWitchcraft #AstraLogical #aliens

  • New update for the Clanfolk game

    New update for the Clanfolk game

    In this new update, players of Clanfolk will be able to travel further afield and bring back anything of interest back to the settlement. This is a new step forward for the game, allowing the player to steal technology and anything else in order to make life easier and allow their settlement to thrive and prosper. The game update is available now for anyone who has not updated their game yet.

    To find out more about the Clanfolk game, go to the official game website here http://www.clanfolk.com or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/SsP5O

    #Clanfolk #games #gaming #gameupdate #HoodedHorse #StrategyGame #historic #clans #scotland #colonysim #colonybuidler #HoodedHorse #MinMaxGames #explore #trade

  • Final Outpost: Definitive Edition coming to PC and mobile in May

    Final Outpost: Definitive Edition coming to PC and mobile in May

    The world as we know it has once more ended, the zombie apocalypse has arrived in the Final Outpost: Definitive Edition and players must take the lead to find resources, build a base and ultimately help the group survive. Yet, as with all plans, there is always something or someone that lets the side down. Train your group, assign them roles and ensure the safety of the base at all costs. The Final Outpost: Definitive Edition is coming to PC and mobile on the 22nd of May.

    To find out more about the Final Outpost: Definitive Edition, go to the official game website here https://shorturl.at/K7c06 or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/tUpAf

    #FinalOutpostDefinitiveEdition #FinalOutpost #FODE #games #gaming #scifi #ExabyteGames #basebuilder #colonysim #zombieapocalypse #classicgames #retrogames #zombies #survivors #survival

  • Venusville game demo on Steam now

    Venusville game demo on Steam now

    For anyone who would like to travel into outer space and maybe even be part of a colonisation, there is the Venusville game, where players travel to Venus, where colonisation has been underway, this is where the job becomes difficult and dangerous as this is a planet that is not very easy to live on without certain defences against the hostile environment. Players can try the Venusville game demo right now on Steam before the game launches.

    To find out more about the Venusville game, go to the official game website here https://shorturl.at/4A6tH to go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/G70Ku

    #Venusville #CityBuilder #ColonySim #newgames #gaming #games #scifi #8continents #steam #gamedemo #gameplay #venus #CityBuilderColonySimFestival #colony #settlers #planets #spacetravel #spaceexploration

  • New Demo Available For Islanders: New Shores

    New Demo Available For Islanders: New Shores

    Here is a chance to find out what the Islanders: New Shores game is going to be all about, as the developers have released a new demo from the game on Steam as part of the City Builder & Colony Sim Fest. In the Islanders: New Shores game, players start off with a blank island and start to build their community; however, there are always challenges to meet, be it natural or some other reason, so careful planning is needed here. The Islanders: New Shores game will be launching on PC and consoles this summer.

    To find out more about the Islanders: New Shores game, go to the official game website here https://playislanders.com/ or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/f5YVT

    #Islanders #NewShores #IslandersNewShores #gamedemo #games #gaming #newgames #PC #PlayStation #Xbox #NintendoSwitch #CoatsinkSoftware #strategy #citybuilder #colonysim

  • Folklands Released On Early Access End Of March

    Folklands Released On Early Access End Of March

    Put down some roots with the Folklands City Builder game where players are able to start a colony in the best location and help it grow into a town and then on to becoming a city, of course, that is easier than it sounds as there are many factors involved in ensuring that the community survives and thrives. The player’s journey can begin sooner than later when it launches its Early Access on Steam on the 24th of March.

    To find out more about the Folklands game go to the official game website here https://lightup.games/ or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/yVPxv

    #Folklands #Games #Gaming #Newgames #GameTrailer #Steam #City #CityBuilder #LightUpGames #ColonySim #CityBuilder #BromanticGames #EarlyAccess

  • Galactic Super Station city builder and colony sim game

    Galactic Super Station city builder and colony sim game

    Welcome to the Galactic Super Station, a place where you can build your own city and control your destiny. Of course, space is very different to what we know now, humans have ventured out into the galaxy and there are plenty of opportunities to look out for. At the same time, there are plenty of dangers just waiting for you to let your guard down. The Galactic Super Station game is coming soon.

    To find out more about the Galactic Super Station game head on over to the official website here https://www.galacticsuperstation.com/ of take a look at the games page on Steam here https://store.steampowered.com/app/2618970/Galactic_Super_Station/

    #GalacticSuperStation #SpaceStationCityBuilder #ColonySimGame #Games #Gaming #colonysim #citybuilder #spacestation #BlackMarchStudios #SIM #SpaceTravel