5 Excellent New Steam Games to Try This Weekend

This fall, we're in for a very busy three months of new video games. As soon as September rolls around, we'll be drowning in exciting games like Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Orbitals. But it turns out that the busy season started a little earlier than planned this year: This week has been shockingly excellent for new video games. That's especially true for PC players, who have no shortage of great games to check out this weekend. Head over to Steam and you can pick up a handful of solid new games right now. That includes a sequel to a GOTY-nominated adventure game, the best Star Wars game in years, and a wonderfully crude riff on Vampire Survivors. Here are our five game recommendations for your weekend. Asobo Studio established itself as a power player in 2022 with A Plague Tale: Requiem, a cinematic stealth game that would go on to land a Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards. Four years later, it followed that success with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. The new prequel continues the series' knack for emotional storytelling, but it trades in stealth for more traditional action. While that idea has its pros and cons, Polygon's Willa Rowe stil