The latest entry in the Amnesia series

"We are well aware (and in awe) of the countless mods and custom stories made throughout the years," Frictional wrote in its announcement. "And now we've finally ensured you can publish and install them smoothly via Steam." The latest entry in the Amnesia series

Frictional has historically been friendly to modding already, making level building tools for its in-house HPL engine freely available and including a "custom story" option right in the main menu of compatible games, making accessing user-made campaigns a cinch. Previously, mods for The Dark Descent could primarily be found on ModDB and NexusMods.

The Steam Workshop compatibility offers more convenience for players who want to access custom campaigns for Amnesia, as well as greater discoverability for mod makers—it's a nice show of support from Frictional to the community. I'm particularly intrigued by this HPL engine Dark Souls 3 homage, "Profaned Capital," that was first released in 2020 and now seems to be attracting renewed attention on Steam.

The latest entry in the Amnesia series, The Bunker, launches in just a few days, and it's shaping up to be something special. PCG staff writer Morgan Park praised The Bunker's open-ended gameplay in an earlier preview, finding it to be "inching toward the player agency and emergent gameplay of a full-blown immersive sim."

Aliens: Dark Descent looks surprisingly decent in this first gameplay footage

How many Aliens licensed games have there been at this point? Enough for us to collectively forget that Aliens: Dark Descent was in development, certainly. Or at least we had until the first gameplay footage arrived this morning via IGN, along with a June 30 release date, which we watched and murmured a collective "that looks quite decent, actually".