Unknown Pleasures: The most august

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A lunar lander roguelike that feels like spinning across an icy road and nailing a perfect parallel park. Slingshot from landing pads to fuel platforms, avoid interstellar debris, discover a dense network of game-changing upgrades, and top the leaderboard in this physics-loaded ode-to-arcades.

A friend from the midlands once lamented that she’d always lived there. How absurd it was to live on an island, but directly in the middle of it. I can now say, having lived in two coastal cities, that living on the edge of it is very much the same, except that there are much better chip shops and the rain is more … oceany.

It is currently hacking it down out there and I don’t want to go home in it. Join me once more then, readers, for our regular round up of the best new games on Steam that you’ll never see on a billboard. It’s Unknown Pleasures.

Gazing wistfully into the deep this week: algorithmic therapy, Scandinavian body horror, and the ol’ rotate and thrust.

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