Flying pirate ship. Steampunk floating islands. Ancient Gods who want you very, very dead. Turn-based tactical combat where one bad move ends the whole run. Oh, and Lovecraftian atmosphere baked straight into the pixel art. The Doctor approves, and The Doctor does not approve of just anything. Dead Weight drops on Steam July 16 for the extremely reasonable sum of $12.99, and it has already racked up over 120,000 wishlists, which means you people have taste.

Here is what you are signing up for: captain a steam-powered airship across a procedurally generated world, recruit a crew of four distinct characters through branching skill trees, and then get absolutely worked over by compact tactical battlefields where every single hex counts. The dev cites Into the Breach and Final Fantasy Tactics as combat inspirations, which is a sentence that should make any self-respecting tactician sit up straighter. Throw in random events, fatigue, madness mechanics, and late-game crisis events that can blow the whole run sideways, and you have a roguelite that will eat your weekend like an Ancient God eats a poorly-positioned barbarian.

There is a free Prologue available on the Steam page right now, so you have zero excuses not to wishlist it and give it a spin before launch. Nothing can beat old age and betrayal, but a well-placed broadside from a flying steampunk pirate ship comes close. High-5, Klukva Games.

Via: Steam (Dead Weight)

You’re a gambler. The kingdom’s punishment for gambling is getting thrown into a giant industrial prison called the King’s Well, a massive mechanical pit of rusted gears, shadowy tunnels, and relentless contraptions that want you dead. The only way out is up, and the only weapons you have are a deck of cards and whatever cunning the Formula left you with. Turkish indie studio Fire Brick Games has built a dark steampunk roguelite poker deckbuilder that fuses Balatro-style card mechanics with grim, clanking Victorian-industrial atmosphere, and the demo is on Steam right now. Q3 2026 for the full release.

The core gimmick is genuinely clever: you feed cards into rusted machines to trigger attacks, defenses, and special effects, or you hold them and cash in a poker hand for bigger bonuses. Every run is a different build, every machine has different slot requirements, and the four starting gamblers (including the Iron Veteran and the High Roller, because of course) each play differently. It’s Slay the Spire meets a steam-powered loan shark, and The Doctor approves of every single gear-grinding, card-flipping second of it. High-5, Fire Brick.

Go wishlist it. Go play the demo. Nothing can beat old age and betrayal, but a well-timed Full House against a rusted kill-machine comes close. Via: King’s Well on Steam