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Beating Hades 2, Megabonk, Dying Light: The Beast, and everyone else, the most powerful Steam release of the past month is an open-world physics sandbox with 27,000 gilded reviews

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Hades II
Genres · adventure, hack_and_slash, indie, rpg
Release · Sep 25, 2025
Developer · Supergiant Games
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Dying Light: The Beast
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Release · Sep 18, 2025
Developer · Techland
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