Play One Of 2026’s Most Anticipated Games On PC & Xbox Sad Cat Studios’ & Thunderful’s 1 million-wishlisted retro-futuristic platformer announces its arrival with new trailer
Gothenburg, Sweden – April 14th, 2026 – Sad Cat Studios and Thunderful are delighted to announce that REPLACED — one of the year’s most anticipated titles with over 1 million lifetime wishlists placing it as the 23rd most wishlisted game on Steam — is available now on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass and is also Steam Deck verified. A characteristically stylish new trailer has been released to celebrate the release of the narrative-driven cyberpunk adventure, offering players an enticing look at the rich, dangerous and atmospheric world that awaits them. The base game is available on both platforms for $19.99 / €19.99 / £16.99, alongside a Supporter Edition that includes the soundtrack for $24.99 / €24.99 / £21.99.
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D platformer blending cinematic exploration with fluid, free-flow action. Immerse yourself in an alternate 1980s America reshaped by nuclear catastrophe and meet the downtrodden of Phoenix-City as you struggle to survive. Soak up the game’s rich atmosphere as you walk the streets of Phoenix-City and become a part of the stories of the citizens you meet in this dark cyberpunk.
As you uncover the sinister secrets of Phoenix Corporation, REPLACED will explore themes of humanity, identity, and control through morally complex characters and the slow reveal of a world pushed to its limits. Discover a haven for corruption where outlaws thrive and human life is traded like currency as R.E.A.C.H. – an AI trapped in a human body against its will. Expose the Corporation’s hidden agenda, and uncover the purpose behind your creation in a world where every secret – and every life – has a price.
“We’re so happy to be able to say that REPLACED is out and available to play now,” said Game Director Yura Zhdanovic. “It’s been a long journey to get here, but we’re proud to say that we stuck to our vision throughout and never compromised on delivering on our high standards. We hope that commitment and hard work is evident as you step into the world of REPLACED and experience it for yourself.”Sad Cat Studios X/Twitter: https://x.com/sadcatstudios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sad_cat_studios/ TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@replacedgame Discord: http://discord.gg/6h4Zp3nNcs
About Sad Cat Studios Sad Cat Studios was founded in 2018 in Minsk, Belarus, by game developers and entrepreneurs Yura Zhdanovich and Igor Gritsay. Yura, with over 8 years of experience as an artist and visual designer in game development companies and startups like MSQRD, joined forces with Igor, who has a strong background in IT and e-commerce, to establish the foundation for the studio’s remarkable journey. Since then, Sad Cat Studios has relocated its headquarters to Limassol, Cyprus and now operates remotely across Europe.
About Thunderful Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Thunderful is a video game publisher providing third-party publishing, co-development, and publishing support services to developers around the world. Thunderful encompasses game developers Coatsink, Stormteller Games, and Early Morning Studios and has published and/or developed award-winning and critically acclaimed titles including REPLACED, the SteamWorld franchise, Planet of Lana, Viewfinder and many more. As of 2026, Thunderful and its wholly-owned subsidiary of Atari SA, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and producers of interactive entertainment.
The IGF award-winning, genre-blending strategy game from AP Thomson is finally opening to the public
Download the trailer MP4 Fellow Traveller and developer AP Thomson have confirmed that Titanium Court will launch on April 23, 2026, arriving on PC via Steam. This is due to no fault of their own.
Up until recently, everything was proceeding normally. Schedules were aligned, announcements were drafted, baseballs were being pitched, and then without consulting anyone, the game set a release date and moved forward with it. Attempts to intervene have been unsuccessful. After taking a lovely walk, you are shuffled into and/or placed in charge of a Court (congrats/so sorry) that operates according to its own internal logic:terrain bends to your willyour resources arrive in bursts of surprising competenceyour carefully constructed plans are immediately stress-tested You will encounter a range of characters during your time in the Court. They will communicate freely, but rarely explain literally anything. And why should they? This is all completely normal.Before its official arrival Titanium Court was already causing problems, specifically by winning both the IGF Excellence in Design and Seamus McNally Grand Prize awards. This has, assumedly, only encouraged it.
At its core, Titanium Court is a strategy game …sort of. Beyond that, definitions become less reliable. We have been advised not to over-explain, regardless. Not because there isn’t more to say, but because the experience itself is doing most of the work, and also because continued attempts have produced minor but noticeable spatial inconsistencies in the immediate area. AP refuses to tell us more anyway, and we legally cannot make him.Titanium Court launches April 23, 2026 on PC via Steam. For more information on Titanium Court, check out the game on Steam, the game’s press kit, and follow Fellow Traveller on Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, or join the official Fellow Traveller Discord. MEDIA CONTACTpress@twofrogs.biz
About AP Thomson AP Thomson spent most of seventh grade math class making games on a TI-83 Plus graphing calculator. This activity didn’t escape the notice of his teacher and a stern lecture was subsequently delivered by his mother. Now AP Thomson spends his days making games on an Apple M4 Pro Mac Mini, an experience much improved over the calculator both because he gets to use a keyboard and because there aren’t any math teachers around to snitch on him. Evidence of his crimes can be found in several projects, including: Beglitched, Swap Sword, Fortune-499, Consume Me, and most recently Titanium Court.
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A pinch of Poirot and Hastings, a dash of Sherlock and Watson, a dollop of Blanc, a smattering of Phoenix Wright, a bit of Professor Layton, throw it in a blender with the world of Chicken Police, then fry it and dip it in Hammet, Chandler, Simenon and sprinkle with adorable illustrative work and you sort of get the recipe for Moses & Plato: Last Train to Clawville.
A visual novel with gameplay mechanics, one of the greatest stregnghts are the voice acting, which happen to be performing great scripting. The characters are all so interesting and I feel upon first meeting of each one you get a great grasp of who they are and desire to know more.
I haven’t gotten to the end, but that is because I like to enjoy things like this in bits and pieces. Savor the art and just let it sit with me. Taking months to finish something might only be 6-12 hours.
That image above is basically me while watching. Deeply intriguing, pulled in and proudly inquisitive, confused, questioning and ready for anything.
10 APRIL 2026, BELGIUM – Oisoi Studio is launching Painting PC, a 2D painting app for desktop built from its VR title Painting VR, which has been bought by over 130,000 people worldwide. The Steam release is painted in for May 6th, 2026.
Painting PC turns your computer into a calm, cozy place to paint. It’s like the studio you’ve always wanted, just cheaper and with no mess.
You can open it and start straight away. There’s no setup and nothing to learn. Just pick a brush and begin. Painting feels real, more than you’d expect.
It’s built for desktop, so it works naturally with a mouse and keyboard. You can use a spray can or choose from 14 various tools, add stencils like stars or circles, and just start playing around.
“People kept asking for it without VR,” says Wim Reygaert, co-founder of Oisoi Studio. “So we built it, and kept the feeling that makes you go, wow, this actually feels like painting.”
Painting PC is a cozy virtual painting studio where you paint with realistic brushes on unlimited canvases. Create artwork at your own pace in a calm space designed for beginners and experienced artists. No pressure, no mess, just a place to paint and create.
Key Features
For beginners & experienced artists alike – No pressure. No mess. No wrong answers. Just paint and see what you can create.
Realistic brushes – Paint with tools that feel natural and responsive, letting colours blend and build with every stroke.
A range of templates – Not sure where to start? Use templates and paint-by-numbers to guide your painting. Perfect for beginners or anyone who wants a relaxing, creative session.
Your own gallery – Display your favourite paintings and turn your studio into your own personal gallery.
17 days, less than 3 weeks till Las Vegas. There will be a major preview post about that but for now, I think there’s been enough music, trailers and other such stuff since the 8th for a little Nerd Notes.
MOVIES & TV
Martin McDonagh never misses
This Jonah Hill dealio looks cool
Directors made two big horrors, this is special cause biggest production and Adam Scott starring
A long road for this director who is currently working on his third feature.
It looks good.
Intriguing
Turning a criminal into a hero
I love that it’s only 4 episodes
As a fan of the Star Wars toons, I’m down.
A fun adaptation, watch all three episodes.
An original IP
the newest David Robert Mitchell
the newest from Adam Shankman
MUSIC
Everything here is new, some from “legends”, some from new artists, some from older artists who aren’t legendary but will be, all amazing.
[disclaimer: this is the first VR game I have recieved for review, but not the first VR game I have played, having owned a Metaquest for a few months and purchased games and experienced what is good and what is bad. Unfortunately, the following review will be mostly bad]
I was highly excited for Neolithic Dawn and I am extremely fortunate that I waited and maybe I should have waited longer, because of the many VR games I have played, this had some of the worst responsive controls I have ever experienced… not just in VR though, but as a whole. Before even getting into poor hit boxes, a tutorial that does not clearly explain what buttons does what, and buttons not doing what they’re supposed to do… your character doesn’t seem to understand how to properly hold an axe, or a spear, picking it up in the most akward manner, forcing you to reintegrate as you’re being attacked. Chopping or stabbing doesn’t respond well either though, it’s just clunky and doesn’t feel natural or right.
Which is mostly the main problem, the controls. The game also is glitchy though, a baby got stuck in the air instead of going down the river in a boat, which I’m pretty sure broke the game and I was not replaying to find out, as the tutorial itself was irresponsive and took forever to get through.
The graphics outside of the glitches are fine though, not fantastic, but a nice art style and design with a clever character creator which in a first person VR game seems fairly pointless. My game seemed to break as I said, so I don’t know if the whole geneational thing is cool or not. A full glitch out is not promising, it ruins the immersion, and the fun. Bugs don’t always ruin fun, but in this case, they truly did.
I want to reccomend this game, I usually even when having done a bad review said that your experience might be different, that the style wasn’t for me… but that isn’t the case here. I want to play this game. I like the way it looks. I like the idea. I like the setting. I even like the actual gameplay conceptually, but the controls, the glitches and the bugs? I can’t even suggest trying it as that would be unfair.
But hey, take a look yourself, try to kill that Dire Wolf with a spear that misses even when the control says you aimed perfectly. Try to not step in that fire. Try not to have that blade disappear everytime you pick it up. Try to do something and then have it do something else. Go ahead, be a cave man.
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Cozy Sanctuary is kind of hard to explain. It’s an idle clicker that can run in the background and you can visit it at your leisure as you type articles, do research, chat with friends, etc. Although you do need to visit it to see it grow before you earn enough money to have it start running on its own like a true idler. I’ve dropped some images to give you an idea, but know this is a zen game while also something you can’t just open and leave to run. At least not till you’ve clicked, fed, cleaned and made enough points to have things running on their own.
In the couple hours I played I unlocked some animals, added a bench and a feeder. There’s a scratcher, an auto poop cleaner, tons of animals, lots of food and tons of decorations.
Cozy Sanctuary is scheduled to release on April 16, 2026.
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I am scheduled to attend PAX East as press this year, but unfortunately mother’s health situation is not one where I can arrange aide coverage so close to my Vegas trip in April (as arranging that coverage itself was not easy and had to be approved). I am still staying on top of the event from home though and am going to go through my invites to share games on the floor I would’ve definitely made plans to cover further and that I felt may get missed by many attendees but need to be on their radar. You should check all these games, brands, products, companies, and more out. Also, enjoy Boston if you have time for that too.
Limited Run Games
Limited Run Games will have all kinds of retro magic on their gorgeously designed booth for your viewing pleasure at PAX EAST, and will be welcoming some key members of staff at the booth to meet with you and discuss all things retro gaming.
As well as demos for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe™️: Dragon Pearl of Destruction and MARVEL MaXimum Collection, there will be exclusive cover variants on offer for some exciting Limited Run Games titles such as Star Ocean: First Departure R (Switch/PS4), Earthion (Switch) and Tomba! 2 (Switch)
CRKD
CRKD has been hotting up this past year with a whole host of controller announcements that have set the gaming world on fire (did you SEE the Nitro Deck 2!?), and they’ll be at PAX EAST to show off many of these new creations, as well as some classics. Need to find them? They’ll be teaming up with the Limited Run Games team at Booth #15031.
Some of the exciting things on offer will be:
CRKD Guitar Controller Lineup – featuring their officially licensed Gibson guitar controllers, plus hands-on demos. There will also be some brand-new editions on show.
Nitro Deck 2 – a first look and hands-on experience with CRKD’s next generation handheld gaming deck, crafted specifically for the Nintendo Switch 2.
ULT Pro Controller – A first look and hands-on with the team’s upcoming pro-style controller for Switch and PC.
ATOM+ Controller – A chance to be one of the first to check out and get hands on with the next evolution of CRKD’s collectible keychain controller for Switch, PC, mobile, and Smart TV gaming.
One of the world’s most popular trading card games is back at PAX East, and this year Magic: The Gathering is bringing something truly spellbinding with Secrets of Strixhaven. Strixhaven University is the Multiverse’s most prestigious school for mages—where five powerful colleges study the arcane arts and compete in spellcraft. Now’s your chance to step onto campus before the set’s prerelease and experience it firsthand in Boston!
Roam the mystical halls of Strixhaven University at Booth #16031 and immerse yourself in the world of Secrets of Strixhaven before it releases April 24. Capture the moment at photo ops and dive into retail offerings featuring your Magic: The Gathering favorites. Looking to uncover even more secrets? Take the Mana Alignment Quiz to discover which Strixhaven College matches your personality and playstyle. At the end of the quiz, you’ll reveal a never-before-seen card from the new set and receive an iron-on patch representing your chosen school to take home! You can also preview the new Secrets of Strixhaven novel, Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos, pre-order your copy, and walk away with a postcard featuring official cover art.
Valor Mortis
Developed by One More Level (the creators of Ghostrunner), Valor Mortis is a first-person action Soulslike coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X in 2026. Check the game out in Booth 15078 [Games From Poland].
What to Expect:
A Corrupted Continent: Explore a dark, alternate history where Napoleon conquered Europe, but a supernatural plague now warps the landscape and its people.
Soulslike in First-Person: Master a brutal combat system of precision parries, rapid dashes, and visceral finishers.
Supernatural Arsenal: Channel the plague pulsing through your resurrected veins to grow stronger, augment your weapons, and unlock devastating abilities.
Promoting their Universus card series, they have some amazing franchises including Godzilla with this killer art:
Alpine Trainer
Alpine Trainer is an immersive exergaming machine that can be connected to any standard PC video game to enhance the realism of player experience. It is designed to get gamers physically engaged while delivering a fun, responsive action. The machine is built to naturally draw players in, get them moving, and keep spectators watching. You can see a few examples of the gameplay here:
The experience is immediate and highly shareable—players jump in quickly, react physically, and the gameplay translates well to short-form video, and social clips or even streaming.
Omara Scent Display
Imagine playing EA Sports FC 24 and smelling the grass or the leather of the soccer ball. That’s the future OVR Tech aims to deliver.
OVR Technology, a gaming tech startup based in VT is working to bring real-time scent to video games. This year, OVR Tech is demoing this technology through their Omara Scent Display – on the PAX show floor for the first time, and they’d like to show it off to you. Are you interested in checking out a new sensory dimension in gaming – one that heightens emotion? The playable scent-enabled content library includes:
Minecraft: Distinct scents for every biome, whether stopping to sniff the roses or visiting the zoo.
Akiiwan: Survival: “Chill survival adventure” will use digital scent for deeper immersion and emotional storytelling.
Lemony Fresh: Literally Scented Edition A standout from the 2026 Global Game Jam, this platformer-simulation hybrid showcases scent as a core gameplay mechanic.
Battle Suit Aces: High-octane action where the heat of battle and environment cues are delivered directly to your senses.
13Z Zodiac Trials: Fight through shifting realms in this solo and co-op roguelike hack-and-slash with detailed and dynamic scented environments throughout.
They’re located at booth #15055, front and center as you come off the escalator
MEMORIA WAKE
I experienced Mermoria Wake at PAX West 2025 and loved everything about it. They’re bringing a new demo to PAX East and you should definitely check out the game from Team Crescendo.
Awakening in a dream world with only an umbrella and tenacity, Nilo fends off hostile creatures to find a long-lost friend. Attack enemies when they show an opening, and chain successful parries to release healing energy. Execute mighty counterattacks to claim victory against the hordes.
GNAW
GNAW, a pre-apocalyptic dino metroidvania from Redstart Interactive, will stomp through the mean streets of PAX East 2026 as part of the PAX Rising Showcase. Take a bite out of the brand new Crab Boss at the show!
Venture onto (under, and above) the bustling New Dino City as the enterprising young raptor Ripley. Investigate the source of a calamitous MEAT-e-or shower that has thrown dinosaur civilization into utter chaos. Scour the sewers, dash across rooftops, and devour enemies to gain stat buffs and currency! Chomp, blast, and dodge through massive boss fights that will put all of Ripley’s skills to the test.
Stop by Booth #19055 to explore cutting‑edge gaming technology and see firsthand how PNY and NVIDIA are shaping the future of immersive gameplay with hands‑on access to the latest and most advanced NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ technologies including DLSS 4.5 and full path tracing with NVIDIA Blackwell architecture.
Play new games and compete head-to-head across our 4 high-end gaming rigs, equipped with PNY GeForce RTX™ 50 Series cards
Stunning demo and showcase PCs from our Partners iBuyPower and CyberPower PC
Exclusive PNY swag and PC Giveaway with Digital Storm you won’t find anywhere else
The latest NVIDIA RTX 50 Series hardware on display, including new Slim models
Our team of experts on-site to answer questions and dive deeper into GeForce and PNY technologies
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon – Sanctuary of Sarras Expansion
The first full-fledged expansion for , Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, with a completely new storyline, a new underwater zone to explore and 10-15 hours’ worth of new content!
Additionally, the base game has just recently been updated to version 1.20, featuring a lot of new content, QoL upgrades, and other general fixes! We’re nearly 1 year after the full release, but we’re still trying our best to improve the Tainted Grail experience!
A dark fantasy, card-driven RPG with dungeon crawling mechanics that replaces turn-based combat with a dynamic Time system (instead of regular mana) and world-altering progression. In this world nothing stays dead, and the eternal order of laws has been shattered.
The two above games are from Awaken Realms and are also available in the aforementioned Games From Poland booth, so do NOT miss out. These Polish devs are putting out amazing experiences and games.
RECLAIM! Azhe-giiwewining
Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining(pronounced: uh zhay – gee-way-wining) is a point-and-click adventure game rooted in Ojibwe culture, language and tradition. Players follow Miskwaa, an Obijwe girl who awakens in a living forest where language is the key to returning home. Players will experience intricate puzzles, colorful citizens, and stories inspired by Anishinaabe tales and traditions.
Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining is developed by non-profit studio, Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia and is designed collaboratively with Ojibwe community members and language activists, the game seeks to contribute to a growing language revitalization movement and present Ojibwemowin an accessible language that is still relevant today. This game can be found at booth #15111.
Yangyang Mobile
Showcasing their games High Times (releasing Q2 2026) and Spirit Rancher (releasing 2028) at Booth 10050. You can find more information about the games on their Steam pages: High Times
There is going to be so much to see, experience, demo, discuss from all worlds of games, not just video games but board games, card games, TTRPG and when it comes to video games all genres but also all things too. Controllers, physical media, shirts, music albums, everything you can think of. I do not know what PAX East is like in comparison to PAX West, This year was to be the one I discovered, but alas, any regular follower of this site knows my current circumstances. Please enjoy PAX East and have an amazing time.
NOTE: At press time of Wednesday the day before PAX I am recieveing new notices of things to not miss at the show, this article may see additions past this note, after posting, so return to it during the event.
“Throwback! Jai-Alai Heroes”
Throwback! Jai-Alai Heroes is a fun, all-ages, competitive game with an arcade feel similar to classic games like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. The game is targeted towards players of “casual competitive” games like Rocket League, Super Smash Bros, and Windjammers. The game blends simple 3D environments with hand-drawn 2D pixel animations for a colorful, retro vibe. The arcade machine will be available in a two-player “Standard” model, or a four-player “Deluxe” model, for 1v1 or 2v2 matches. With Throwback! Jai-Alai Heroes, Astro Crow is aiming to create a fun, competitive game while introducing gamers to a new, unique sport. You can experience the arcade machine yourself at PAX Rising (Booth #13097)
Buckle up, Boston, because Choose Your Own Adventure is coming to PAX East! Stop by Booth #12079 to browse the new releases, shop exclusive CYOA merch, and more.
This collection started with sitting here on a Sunday watching Ahura win the 2026 wXw 16 Carat Tournament thinking about how I wish I was in San Francisco for GDC and Day of the Devs. After two days/nights of solid wrestling as well as catching up on tv shows and playing game demos I feel now is a perfect time for another edition of Nerd Notes. In the two weeks and two days since the last there’s been plenty going on to talk upon. The following was completed after watching MONARCH and through Game Changer Wrestling’s RANSOM from Thalia Hall in Chicago.
First up some Kickstarters:
The MEOW WOLF x Exalted Funeral TTRPG TAVERS has been on my radar for awhile. I patiently awaited it to be release prepared to get to get the most ultimate edition (the true ultumate had tickets to Meow Wolf LA, but as I had no guarantee of being able to use them I stuck with the ultimate physical edition and with every dollar it gets better, get in now).
Been following Baylis’ work forever, sometimes I’d miss a So Buttons here and there but when I can I grab the new issue and this is no different. Check it out, great contributers, a not miss.
A BUNCH OF WRESTLING STUFF
An amazing promo that I hope leads to a Charles Crowley World and US tour.
The last ever Prestige show is an amazing send off.
This EFFY Interview/Ted Talk/Seminar/Whatever is Must watch
Aboslute brutal match.
A1 Wrestling is one of my favorite promotions and is doing great stuff that is very A1.
MOVIES/TV/SHORT FILMS
Out now on Netflix. Kinda funny.
Awesome marketing
A bunch of weird but awesome looking films and television.
Life as a caretaker to mom rolls on. Focus on maintenance of life and adulting, while finding time for relaxation, entertainment and continual preparation for large April Vegas trip for GCW Collective, The New Inititative Shooting Star and experiences through Paradise, Immersive Arts, Downtown, and Arts District. That is April though and it is still Feb, here are trailers, short films/ads, music videos and more that caught my attention on Youtube between 2/1/2026 and 2/19/2026 in no particular order other than Genre.
FILM AND TV TRAILERS
Was unsure despite the games popularity if we’d get an official English subbed distribution.
Gotta love getting a full animatic preview.
10 years later the music video turned book is now a film.
Padme is love.
SHORTS AND ADS
I want aKeegan and McBride show.
This is absolutely amazing as an advertisement
MUSIC
WRESTLING
Possibly the show of the wrestling week in Vegas, at least till they announce more for Shooting Star, Spring Break or Clusterfuck, but right now, Stranglemania is holding high.
This promo was excellent and the match that happened was fascinating in terms of storytelling and progression.
Sad Cat Studios
The IGF award-winning, genre-blending strategy game from AP Thomson is finally opening to the public
After taking a lovely walk, you are shuffled into and/or placed in charge of a Court (congrats/so sorry) that operates according to its own internal logic:terrain bends to your willyour resources arrive in bursts of surprising competenceyour carefully constructed plans are immediately stress-tested
Before its official arrival Titanium Court was already causing problems, specifically by winning both the IGF Excellence in Design and Seamus McNally Grand Prize awards. This has, assumedly, only encouraged it.
Titanium Court launches April 23, 2026 on PC via Steam. For more information on Titanium Court, check out the game on 
You can open it and start straight away. There’s no setup and nothing to learn. Just pick a brush and begin. Painting feels real, more than you’d expect.
