With over 100 titles involved, Steam users will have the chance to experience discounts across some of the latest and greatest simulation games, in addition to seeing what the future holds for the genre with highlighted coming soon titles.
>From real-life sims to building, resource management, driving, and farming sims, all aspects of simulations will be showcased throughout the festival. Established hits such as Disney Dreamlight Valley, PC Building Simulator, Transport Fever 2, and Human: Fall Flat will be joined by exciting upcoming titles such as Manor Lords, Laysara: Summit Kingdom, Airborne Empire, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life, and Solarpunk.
Announcements During Simfest
To coincide with Simfest, several participating titles have special announcements to make:
- In celebration of its 7th anniversary, Human: Fall Flat will have news to share on July 22nd
- Ishtar Games’ latest title, Lakeburg Legacies, launches today on July 20th, the first day of Simfest
- The Heroes & Villains DLC for Airships: Conquer the Skies will also release today, July 20th
- The Tenants, a landlord sim/management game, will be announcing the release date for their upcoming Pets DLC
- Cook, Serve, Delicious developers, Vertigo Gaming, will share news of its future plans for the series
- Construction Simulator - Extended Edition will be discounted 30% during Simfest. Also discover the recently released Airfield Expansion sold separately or with the Year 1 Season Pass
- Sticky Business, which released on July 17th, will feature its launch discount and players will be able to obtain an exclusive in-game Simfest sticker
- And many more!
Simfest debuted in 2022 with Hobby Edition, where Auroch Digital partnered with Steam to run the event. Last year’s event featured a variety of talks and panels, whereas this year’s festival will be focused on highlighting released and upcoming simulation games via the Steam Store. Simfest 2023 is the first time Auroch Digital and Stray Fawn Studio have partnered for an event, having recently ran Digital Tabletop Fest 3: Blood & Dice and Earth Appreciation Festival respectively.
Important Links & Info
Simfest 2023 begins today (July 20th) on Steam from 1900 CEST/1800 BST/ 1000 PDT.
- Link to Simfest 2023: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/simfest (will be accessible at time of announcement)
About Auroch Digital
Auroch Digital is part of the Sumo PLC Group. They are a small game development studio based in Bristol, UK and founded in 2010. The studio works on original titles, partnerships, and work-for-hire projects, specialising in strategy and digital tabletop games, working with the likes of Games Workshop and Ndemic Creations. Auroch also has an interest in making games that relate to and deal with real-world issues.
Auroch Digital's titles include boomer shooter style Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, the authentic beer brewing simulator Brewmaster, action-strategy hybrid Dark Future: Blood Red States, the console versions of fishy theme park management game Megaquarium and cute robot city builder The Colonists, and Mars Horizon which was made in collaboration with the European Space Agency. The studio is currently working on several titles, both original IPs and ports.
Auroch Digital continues to grow and is recognised as a leading studio within the gamedev community for its talent in connecting the real with the digital. It is also recognised for its craft in porting games from one platform to another, be that physical tabletop to digital, or between PC and console.
For more information visit: www.aurochdigital.com
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About Stray Fawn Studio
Stray Fawn Studio is a ten person indie game studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company focuses on developing their own projects which are often situated in the simulation game genre. Procedural content generation and the simulation of living worlds form the core of the studio’s creations. Stray Fawn was founded by Micha Stettler, a space enthusiastic software engineer and Philomena Schwab, a biology loving game designer.
In 2023 the studio expanded into indie game publishing and is now supporting other developers on their journey.
For more information visit: https://strayfawnstudio.com
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