New Playtests: Time Takers, Trine 6, Hope in the City & more!
See whats new on player.gg this week 🎮
Hey everyone!
Another packed week, with games like survival shooter Time Takers, fantastical co-op puzzle game Trine 6: Together in Time and much much more.
We also have a few guaranteed playtest access keys for Sponge Break, they're running out fast - so grab one while you still can!
Playtests 🎮
Time Takers
Every second alive is a second you can spend. Time is your health, your power, and your last resort. Pick a Traveler from across time, build your loadout, outlast every squad. No fixed roles. Adapt or run out of Time. 3v3 survival shooter. Free to play.
- Matches are short, high-intensity, and constantly evolving
- Each match progresses through a total of 7 phases
- Each character brings a unique core ability, but your choice of weapons and passive apps defines how you play
Tyr
Tyr is a multiplayer tank shooter. Pilot heavy-armored vehicles with unique capabilities and upgrade them as you battle for victory with your team.
- Features a roster of specialized armored vehicles and pilots
- Each vehicle also offers its own tech tree and ammo & component slots, affording you the ability to upgrade and evolve your ride to suit your playstyle
- You and your opponents will only be visible when within range or while making enough noise. Deciding when to push forward and when to fire from cover could mean the difference between staying hidden and revealing your position to the entire enemy team, so play carefully
Tyr is a multiplayer tank shooter. Pilot heavy-armored vehicles with unique capabilities and upgrade them as you battle for victory with your team.
Sponge Break
You're a sponge. You're on a raft. The river is trying to destroy you. Chaos everywhere. Up to 4 players, drop-in co-op gameplay, with proximity voice chat and one extremely fragile raft.
- Guaranteed playtest access, claim one of the limited invite spots and skip the waitlist!
- 100+ unlockable cosmetic options
- Level based gameplay, across multiple biomes including sewers, rivers, abandoned facilities and more!
Sponge Break is a chaotic co-op rafting game for up to four players. Use physics to steer, dodge hazards, solve puzzles, and fend off wild animal attacks before your raft (and your friendships) falls apart.
Trine 6: Together in Time
A co-op puzzle platformer for 1–4 players. Wit, timing, and teamwork collide as you solve perplexing puzzles, engage cunning creatures, and traverse perilous paths in the next adventure through Trine’s iconic fantasy world.
- Puzzles designed with a co-op-first approach
- For solo players, updated puzzle designs also allow solo players to take on the challenges themselves
- Play with up to 4 players, choose between 5 different characters with their own unique playstyles and unlockable skills
Trine 6: Together in Time is a co-op puzzle platformer for 1–4 players. Wit, timing, and teamwork collide as you solve perplexing puzzles, engage cunning creatures, and traverse perilous paths in the next adventure through Trine’s iconic fairytale world.
Hope in the City
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover dark secrets beneath her peaceful urban life
- A single-player non-linear narrative mystery game
- Gather clues, record observations, and piece together the truth using sketches in Hope’s notebook
- Progress by building your observations into insights
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
Dark Cards of Candlewood
A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs...then save the world from eternal darkness!
- Collect cards via packs, singles, drops, drafts, and crafts
- Recruit up to 7 playable party members, each with their own signature ability
- Roguelite-style randomized dungeons with a variety of encounters, but no permadeath
A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs...then save the world from eternal darkness!
Bloom Control
Eradicate the Bloom in this fast action roguelite incremental. Hack into powerful security weaponry at infested target sites as the only AI fast enough to outpace the spread. Control and destroy the hostile growth before your transmission window closes.
- Simulate the mission, adapt your loadout, and iterate on your approach until success
- When your capabilities are outmatched, Resimulate, upgrade your OS, and start again
- As you gather intel on the Bloom and find hidden secrets in each location, you will uncover the surprising truth behind the origin of the mysterious Bloom… and your own
Eradicate the Bloom in this high-energy active incremental. Hack into powerful security weaponry at infested target sites as the only AI fast enough to outpace the spread. Control and destroy the hostile growth before your transmission window closes.
Fleetbreakers
From the creators of Halo Wars and Age of Empires, Fleetbreakers is an action RTS roguelite with satisfying fleet combat in bite-sized sessions. Strategic depth meets cataclysmic space battles in an ever-evolving campaign that keeps you coming back for just. One. More. Run.
- Each run of Fleetbreakers’ roguelite campaign is different, with freshly generated maps, new encounters, and discoveries to be made
- With persistent upgrades and a gripping sci-fi narrative that develops as you explore, defeat doesn’t mean the end.
- Experimentation is rewarded, encouraging you to try new tactics
From the creators of Halo Wars and Age of Empires, Fleetbreakers is an action RTS roguelite with satisfying fleet combat in bite-sized sessions. Strategic depth meets cataclysmic space battles in an ever-evolving campaign that keeps you coming back for just. One. More. Run.
From our curators ✍️
Lucy James recommends: Sovereign Tower, a Round Table management RPG launching on August 6th (read more)
Curve Games
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Miketheferret takes a look at dice-based roguelike deckbuilder game 'DiceVaders' from developers Pengonauts and Balatro publisher Playstack - scheduled to release sometime this year! (read more)
Pengonauts
Build an army of aliens to invade Earth in DiceVaders, the roguelike dice game set in the same universe as StarVaders! SCORE BIG and DESTROY humanity!