For June - as well as some weird and wonderful recent releases - we've themed our Bulletin selects around the boldest and best from Steam Next Fest - which has just wrapped for June (did you play Occlude!? The Demo remains live until Sunday...).

A reminder! All of the games featured in this month's Bulletin can be found in our Steam Curator page. Give it a follow!

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#1 Morsels

Coming Soon, Steam | Furcula

Contrary to our general mission of putting lesser known games on a pedestal, **Morsels** seems like a fairly known entity, but it IS weird and wonderful, and I wanted to talk about it here, so that's that. Morsels combines three things I love: creature collecting, roguelites and sewage. It takes these three components and blends them into disgusting but delightful smoothie of top-down monster-collecting goodness.

#2 oneway.exe

Coming Soon, Steam| Disordered Media

As far as elevator pitches go, **oneway.exe** is pretty gold: you’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay, and need to work out what's happened to its developers. It's kind of like a messed up version of Jumanji, except more videogamey. Slightly meta games about games with .exe in their name seem to be cropping up fairly regularly at the moment, but this is well worth your time.

#3 Cat Named Mojave

Due 2025, Steam| Stargazers Studios

I sort of hate this game. When I close my eyes now, I see that haunting Catman staring at me with its dead eyes. **Cat Named Mojave** is an atmosphere-heavy, first-person survival horror set in a small desert town. As you try to survive the eerie wasteland, Catman befriends you (if that's the right term), but your friendship involves you killing and bringing him animal trophies to add to his collection in the basement...

#4 TROLEU

#4 Coming Soon, Steam |  Andrground

I have this theory: the more banal something is, the more chaotic and unhinged it can be with the right creative vision. **TROLEU** is a lovely example of this, putting players in the shoes of a trolley bus conductor tasked with keeping an orderly service. Suffice to say things quickly become very unorderly very quickly, and you'll need to put things right. With your fists.

#5 Dead Finger Dice

Coming Soon, Steam | Rocket Adrfit

It wouldn't be a Bulletin without at least one game with a monochromatic colour palette. Dead Finger Dice has you playing poker-dice with billionaire demons who've trapped you on their super yacht. As they tend to do. The 1-bit visuals are up there with the best I've seen, and - as is always the case with anything pokery - the game sinks its hooks in quickly.

#6 I Am Mouse

Coming Soon, Steam | Rat Studios

You're a mouse. In a house. And you run around on your teeny-tiny mouse legs exploring the place, finding food for your mouse-family, and steering clear of humans and cats. And something about the fact that I Am Mouse is developed by Rat Studios really tickles me. Simple things, eh?

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die

Out Now, Steam | Stormteller Games, Thunderful

Released this very week, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is the follow up to 2021's quirky and brilliant Lost in Random; a game that fuses freewill and fate into an interesting package. Like the original, The Eternal Die has a strong sense of self; a bizarre world that might have been conjured up by Tim Burton. This Wonderland-world is the canvas for surprisingly visceral real-time combat, but then shifted into unpredictable forms via the game's signature dice-roll mechanic, via your companion, Fortune.

#8 The New Flesh

Out Now, Steam | Freshly Baked Games, Red Vox

To finish up this month's Bulletin, we have the delightful The New Flesh, which released at the start of the month. First thing to note: the game is free, acting as an interactive music-video for the psychedelic rock band Red Vox. Despite, I guess, being a promotional piece (?) for the band, it's also brilliant in its own right? I've played a lot of waking sims - it's one of my favourite genres, in fact - but this pushes the genre into more experimental and surreal territory, acting more as an art piece of sorts. Anyway, play it.

Reminder! Pantaloon's partnered games for June is Polterguys

This month we've partnered with Amplified Games to bring you Polterguys - an eight-player game of possession and sabotage, where its every ghost for themselves. If you’ve not hit the button in any of our emails this month to say you want a copy - now would be a good time…

Ok. That’s it for June

See you next month x

pantaloon.

Bold and Bizarre Games Bulletin | June