Since it arrived on Steam Early Access at the beginning of the year, Enshrouded has developed a very enthusiastic following. Keen Games continually publishes updates to add more content and refine the game. Case in point: the "Back to the Shroud" update adds difficulty configuration options, more character customization options, and a host of decorative items for the player's base. This should all help the game's 16-player online co-op experience be even more engaging.

2016's Lost Castle is a pretty good action RPG from Singapore-based Hunter Studio. 8 years later, Lost Castle 2 is finally arriving on Steam Early Access. The sequel sports improved graphics, lots of equipment to find, and 4-player online play. It looks really promising, and it will arrive on July 25.

Starship Troopers: Extermination, the large-scale co-op shooter from Offworld, is due to fully launch on consoles and Steam in October. In the meantime, the Steam Early Access version continues to grew and improve, as evidenced by this week's Version 0.8 update. The new update adds a brand new planet, weak points on enemies, persistent bug bodies, and more.

Bubble Bobble fans have been waiting quite a while for a sequel to Bubble Bobble 4, but the closest thing on the horizon is the upcoming modern port of Parasol Stars. That leaves plenty of opportunity for homage, something we find in a new Steam Early Access title called Slam and Roll from KaleidoGames. In this one, a group of sports loving ki...

Nintendo's Super Mario Maker games were so well received, you have to wonder why they haven't made a "Zelda Maker." Well, a pair of indie developers and Apogee Entertainment have made the next best thing with their Quest Master for Steam. The game lets up to three local players design, share, and play dungeons together. ...

Sometimes you just want to get away. Where better than an alien planet? In Time to Morp from Team Halfbeard and Yogscast Games, up to four online players can team up to colonize an alien planet. On that planet, they will raise cutesy aliens called morps, harvest resources, and build machines. Time to Morp has just arrived on Steam Early Access, so it's officially morpin' time.

Dead Cells is an absolutely fantastic roguelike platformer that unfortunately lacks co-op. Thus, when that developer, Motion Twin, announces a new roguelike with co-op, we take notice! Windblown is coming to Steam Early Access next year and will feature fast-paced gameplay and online co-op. It can't come soon enough!

Roguelike shooters come in many shapes and sizes. The recently announced Atomic Picnic from Brazilian developer BitCake Studio and Mad Mushroom utilizes a Splatoon-like third-person perspective and some genuinely look-looking characters. Up to four online players will get to team up and blast away at waves of enemies in colorful environments. Things are still early, but it looks like a fun, frenetic, and challenging game, and it will be coming to Steam Early Access in the spring.

October is a traditionally scary month, full of all manner of haunts and frights. There's no need for Steam and Switch gamers to be afraid of ghosts (or is that "no ghosts"?) now, thankfully, because Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed has finally arrived on both platforms! The PC version was previously Epic exclusive, and poor Switch was just completely haunted until now. Both of the new versions support full cross-play with the existing Xbox, PlayStation, and Epic games, thankfully.

Following up on their deck-building, roguelite hit, Monster Train, developer Shiny Shoe set their sights on making another roguelite; this time with a focus on turn-based mechanics and the ability to play with friends. Inkbound became available via Steam Early Access this past May and already showed a lot of promise. This past week it received its first free major update, "The Starship of Terrors," that added a bunch of new features and improved a number of things based on community feedback. We spoke with founder and CEO Mark Cooke about this update, along with inspirations for Inkbound and the challenges of balancing classes for solo and co-op play.

Inkbound, the new co-op roguelite from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, received a big update last week, titled "The Starship of Terrors." This was a significant milestone for the title as it not only added new content to the game - including a new character class, a new zone, a new daily challenge, and a new way to craft your ideal build via "trinkets" - but it also tweaked and refined a number of existing features; it's also entirely free.