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Dig Your Way Into Madness in ‘Drill Deep’ [Trailer]
Developer Crossbridge Games Studios has revealed what’s described as their “coalpunk Lovecraftian roguelite clicker” in Drill Deep. Coming to Steam later this year, horror doesn’t chase your in this game. Rather, the dread ratchets up ever so slowly as you approach something that has existed long before humanity.
The story sees you saved from the gallows for a fate worse than death: the mines. Given your expertise in excavation, you’ve been assigned to oversee operations at a new imperial mining facility. You will optimize, automate, and upgrade. The empire expects results: coal, ore, or whatever else the earth is hiding down there.
The process in Drill Deep starts simple: Click away at the blocks while also managing the operation by expanding the surface base, optimizing and upgrading. The surface camp grows, smokestacks rise, progress charts tick upward. It’s almost cozy out there. Yet there is something else down there. As you descend, the rock gets older and the reality warps. You start finding unusual formations, otherworldly fossils, even inscriptions in unknown languages. The workers don’t comment on them. At first, neither do you.
However, you soon realise that whatever is down there is slowly corrupting you, your canary and all the operation on the surface. Take what you can, and use it to craft permanent upgrades for the next run. From there, the cycle begins again, as does your descent.
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Horror Action-Adventure Title ‘EONA’ Appearing at Gamescom 2026; New Gameplay Trailer Released [Watch]
With gamescom 2026 right around the corner, developer/publisher SUPER AC has revealed that their upcoming horror adventure game EONA will be making an appearance at the show, which takes place from August 26-30. In addition, the team has revealed a new gameplay trailer, as well as announcing that the game will launch “just a few weeks” after gamescom.
Those attending gamescom will be able to play the final version of EONA at the SUPER AC booth, located in Hall 10.1, Booth A043. If you’re not able to attend, you can always check out the demo for the game on Steam.
EONA centres around the eponymous girl, who after a failed spell, has her soul split into two, with one half residing in a mysterious puppet. Eona must enter the castle of the evil fairy Mélusine and recover an artifact that is the only hope of saving her mother. But the path through the castle comes at a cost. To achieve her goal, Eona must uncover the castle’s secrets… and ultimately confront Mélusine herself.
Eona wields the Puppeteer’s Cross, a stolen artifact that allows her to manipulate the souls of the castle’s servants. By altering their behavior, redirecting their patrol routes, and disrupting the castle’s order, she can turn its own inhabitants against it. She can also swap between her human body and her puppet form, with each form granting unique abilities that are essential for delving deeper into the castle, reaching inaccessible areas, and uncovering its hidden secrets.
Blending stealth, exploration, puzzle-solving and soul manipulation, you’ll use Eona’s supernatural abilities to overcome obstacles—but never lose sight of your own body, which is completely vulnerable when using her puppet form.
In addition to Steam, EONA will also be launching on the Epic Games Store.