Metropolis 1998 - This SimCity/Transport Tycoon like game coming Soon To Early Access, looks awesome!

Fans of classic city-building simulations have a new reason to be excited, especially if you loved games such as Sim City or even the look of Transport Tycoon. As Yesbox Studios prepares for its highly anticipated Early Access launch of Metropolis 1998. Blending the nostalgic aesthetic of the 90s and early 2000s with sophisticated modern tech, this title is carving out a unique space in the simulation genre. Players can get a first taste of the game now with a playable demo on Steam.

Utopia Must Fall - A chaotic Arcade shooter that's worth checking out via Steam (Early Access)

If you're looking for a new indie game for your PC(Windows/Mac) with great retro vibes and chaotic blasting Arcade action, then we might have found just the game for you! As if you head on over to Pixeljam's Steam page below, you'll be able to play their latest game of 'Utopia Must Fall'; a super cool looking game in which the creator says "is a vector-flavored base-defending arcade shooter with rapid progression and procedurally generated attack waves". To coincide with this news, we've got some footage and further details while the game is available via Steam early access.

They Came From the Sky 2 - An Amiga "Walker" inspiration is coming to Steam (Early Access)

FobTi interactive have informed us about the announced early access of their latest game 'They Came From the Sky 2'; an action packed arcade game that is a sure fire nod to the Amiga game of Walker'. In development for the PC through Steam, the developer tells us that this is a highly-addictive and fast paced game wherein you take the role of one of the giant Alien robot with one and only one Mission...Make a giant delicious juicy Human smoothy! To coincide with this news, you can view the latest early access footage below, and watch all the blasting gory bits that harks back to the Walker.

3dSen Emulator is now available in Easy Access on Steam

3dSen has been in development since 2015 by Geod Studio and today this amazing 3d Nes Emulator has been made available in Early Access on Steam. What makes 3dSen so special is that every game that 3dSen has support for has manually been edited with a profile script system to add animations,  rotation and positioning of sprites to make every detail look and work as it should in 3d, and it shows that the developer have put a lot of work in each title supported.

Stoneshard - Open world turn based RPG via Early Access on Steam!

Are you looking for a new game to play that's not only an RPG but it has a big open world to play on? Then you might be interested in playing 'Stoneshard'; a game which is a new release from HypeTrain Digital that's available to play through Early Access right now! This game is a challenging turn-based RPG in which you will experience the unforgiving life of a medieval mercenary: travel across the war-torn kingdom, fulfill contracts, fight, mend your wounds and develop your character without any restrictions.

Here Be Dragons - Satirical turn based strategy game available through early access

Here on Indie Retro News we love it when developers take a side step away from your typical genre and add their own degree of humour to make their games fresh and unique, which is certainly the case with Here Be Dragons by Red Zero Games. This latest game on Steam which as of this moment is still in early access, is a satirical turn-based strategy game featuring unique "living map" graphics, where you lead a group of crazed captains and eradicate legendary monsters in order to allow Christopher Columbus the discovery of the New World.

Altered Beast - A classic Arcade beat em up, given the fan treatment

If you are a retro gamer, chances are you would've heard or atleast played the 1988 classic Arcade game of Altered Beast by Sega which appeared on multiple systems including the Sega Mega Drive. Well if you do remember it, you'll be interested to know LucasCCBJogos has released an early fan game of that classic title but instead will be playable via your browser linked through the gamejolt website.

Eight Dragons - Fighting homage to games such as Target Renegade now on Steam

Today just gets better and better, as we've recently found out that Extend Mode's fighting homage of ' Eight Dragons ', is now available to buy on Steam through Early Access! This game of which we have mentioned last year thanks to a great write up by @GamesInBits, is a new entry to Steam that's classed as an old-school side-scrolling fighting game that takes the classic beat-'em-up action from the eighties and pushes the gameplay and story to a whole new level!

Death, Love & Carrots - A lovely pixelated platformer available as Early Access

Trawling through many of the games found on itch.io, there was always a chance of finding a nice game that not only looked charming but had the enjoyment factor that anyone in the family could pick up and play. Well thankfully one such game could fit both of those descriptions, as we've just learnt Thraxx Media has released in early access their bunny bouncing platformer ' Death, Love & Carrots ' for the PC.

Legends of Amberland - 90's inspired crawler by Silver Lemur Games - Early Access on Steam

We've been banging on about this game for months now, but today we were told by Silver Lemu Games that their work in progress Dungeon Crawler of ' Legends of Amberland ', is now available to buy through Early Access on Steam. This rather nice looking crawler that is still being developed is a classic styled RPG that is inspired by great games from the 90's such as Dungeon Master, Eye of The Beholder 2, Might & Magic 3-5, Crystals of Arborea, and even the GoldBox series (Champions of Krynn, Dark Queen of Krynn, etc).

Monkeys & Dragons - Retro Adventure inspired by video game classics like Monkey Island!

I've always been an Adventure gamer on both my Amiga and PC, and have such fond memories of games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Fable, Kings Quest and even the Quest for Glory series. So to hear that a new Adventure game inspired by those classics with a fabulous fantasy twist was made available as early access on Steam called ' Monkeys and Dragons ' by Benjamin Rommel Games, I just had to sit up and take notice.

Pax Nova - Sc-fi Strategy with Civ-like gameplay coming soon to Steam

Great news if you're a 4x sci-fi strategy fan and loved playing games such as Stellaris, Rebellion, Endless Space or even Galactic Civilizations, as Iceberg Interactive and Greywolf Entertainment had announced earlier their upcoming space game Pax Nova. Which will be coming to Steam Early Access for PC as from December 2018 with a Civ-like approach to gameplay.

Inspector Waffles - Anthropomorphic point and click adventure in Early Access

The love of Adventure games is strong this week, as after already mentioning the recent release of Unavowed, we now look towards Goloso Games early access anthropomorphic point and click adventure ' Inspector Waffles '. Now unlike the other paranormal orientated game, this one puts you in control Inspector Waffles on an investigation to find out what had happened to Fluffy, a rich industrial in Cat Town found dead at his house. As the story tells..  Is it a murder ? Did he kill himself ? Inspector Waffles is the one called to solve the mistery. But there is a problem : the cops can't find a way to get to the crime scene.

Down Ward - A Gameboy Inspired Platformer is Available in Early Access

Created for the GameBoy Jam 4, Down Ward is a glorious black & white side scrolling platformer by Fisholith. Available now as an early-access release, it is available for Windows and HTML5 In-Browser form, and will have an eventual Steam & Mac OSX release.

Gunman Tales - A new game inspired by Cabal and Moonstone now in Early Access

Last month here on Indie Retro News we mentioned a new game that was in development called ' Gunman Tales ', which was not only inspired by the 1989 Arcade game of Cabal, but also Blood Bros and the fantastic Amiga game of Moonstone.  Well as of this moment you'll be pleased to know FobTi Interactive's Arcade inspired shooter based around the Wild West is now available on Steam through early access!

Gunman Tales - Arcade classic Cabal is going Wild West! (Early Access Soon)

In 1989 many of us had the pleasure of playing the Arcade classic ' Cabal '; a game by TAD Corporation in which you could move your military guy along the bottom of the screen using deadly force blasting away enemies such as soldiers and even tanks! It was a brilliant game for its time, and it looks as if ' Gunman Tales ' by FobTi interactive is following that gameplay style, except this time it's heading out to the wild west!

Startup Freak - Become a successful software company in this early access tycoon game

Ah a Tycoon game, you know the type, starting from a poor person and or low end company and then turning it into riches and hopeful domination of your opponents. So along comes PulPul Games to satisfy that need, as they have released through Early Access ' Startup Freak '. Which is a Tycoon game based around software development, from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company.

Ion Maiden - An action packed first person shooter using the famous Build engine! ( Early Access )

Don't get me wrong I do like playing modern first person shooters such as Shadow Warrior or even  Wolfenstein, but in all honesty I prefer playing the much older types, the original early 90's gun in hand blasters such as the original Doom or even Wolfenstein 3D. So it stands to reason why I just had to mention the first person retro inspired game ' Ion Maiden ', which is not only available for PC and Linux as Early Access, but it's using the famous Build engine from 3D Realms; an engine that powered Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior and other 90's hits. Of old-school throwback games!

Apocryph - Brutal FPS which looks a bit like Painkiller goes early access!

Something for everyone this week as now we look towards a bloody and brutal first person shooter called ' Apocryph ', developed by Bigzur using Unity. If you remember games such as Hexen, Heretic or Painkiller, then you'll know what to expect with this game, as not only is it set in a dark fantasy world of violence, magic, dark rituals and dangers, but you'll be facing horrific monsters, nasty traps, secret passages and the will to survive with a mighty weapon at your disposal!

Regions of Ruin - A lovely Kingdom inspired Action RPG in Early Access

Most of us by now have played the very addictive yet challenging game ' Kingdom '; a lovely pixelated strategy resource management game in which you need to defend yourself and your kingdom against some pretty nasty critters. But how would you like to play a more action oriented RPG that doesn't just involve city building but lots of lovely hero based combat with stats and levelling? You would good, welcome to ' Regions of Ruin ' by VoxGames!