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Part two of the Monday news:

This upcoming slime farming game has strong Stardew Valley energy
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-upcoming-slime-farming-game-has-strong-stardew-valley-energy/
Cute-looking village life sim Alchemic Cutie has been flying under the radar for a couple years in development, but now Microsoft have snapped it up as a timed exclusive for PC and Xbox, giving it a July 27 release date. Alchemic Cutie invites you to Wimba Island, a wholesome-looking place where you'll catch, tame, and breed wild jellies, practice some alchemical magic, and meet the various villagers that live there. The energy of Slime Rancher with the setting of Stardew Valley? Might just be. The bright, saturated environments are full of cheer, and it seems charming at first glance. Plus a bit more coherent than Ooblets, with its all-out silliness.

Valheim players are industrializing the slaughter of its most hated monsters
https://www.pcgamer.com/valheim-players-are-industrializing-the-slaughter-of-its-most-hated-monsters/
Valheim players have spent 185 million hours exploring its surprisingly large world, but already some are moving onto the next stage of Viking colonialism: exploiting the land and its resources in the most disturbing ways possible. Instead of killing monsters for their resources, some players have invented nightmarish death machines that do all the hard work for them. It's as clever as it is cruel.

Girls kill aliens with chainsaws in co-op brawler Chenso Club
https://www.pcgamer.com/girls-kill-aliens-with-chainsaws-in-co-op-brawler-chenso-club/
What's better than a cute, 2D, roguelite platformer? A cute, 2D roguelite platformer that involves killing aliens with chainsaws. That's Chenso Club, a side-scrolling cooperative brawler coming this fall. The titular club is a bunch of androids, schoolgirls, and other warriors who are using the invading aliens' dangerous life force—which gives motion to inanimate objects—to fight back.

Despot's Game is a roguelike autobattler about refrigerators, pretzels, and dark gods
https://www.pcgamer.com/despots-game-is-a-roguelike-autobattler-about-refrigerators-pretzels-and-dark-gods/
Sad, naked humans wake up in an underground facility and have to fight for their lives. No, it's not what happens in my basement every weekend, it's the upcoming roguelike autobattler and tactics of Despot's Game. It's something new for the autobattler, a clever-looking procedurally generated PvE puzzle that forces your hand to try out new strategies as the enemy mix changes, rather than just building for a meta against other people.

Crusader Kings 3 is heading north for its first DLC, coming next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/crusader-kings-3-is-heading-north-for-its-first-dlc-coming-next-week/
Paradox has revealed Crusader Kings 3's first bit of DLC, which will be good news for anyone wanting even more Vikings in their lives, and bad news for anyone hoping this would be the first expansion. Instead, it's a 'flavor pack', which is a bit slimmer than an expansion, but also cheaper.

Surviving Mars returns with a new developer, a free update and more DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/surviving-mars-returns-with-a-new-developer-a-free-update-and-more-dlc/
After a couple of years with no notable updates, Surviving Mars has unexpectedly sprung back to life, with the red planet under new management. Abstraction has taken the reins from Haemimont Games, and with the change comes a new update, DLC and expansion plans. Mars is getting busy again.

Thwart an evil AI, or betray your friends, in the First Class Trouble playtest
https://www.pcgamer.com/thwart-an-evil-ai-or-betray-your-friends-in-the-first-class-trouble-playtest/
Upcoming social deduction party game First Class Trouble is running a playtest via Steam right now ahead of its Early Access launch later this month. Developers Invisible Walls have also rolled out a retro-style PSA about life aboard the giant space liner where the game is set. In First Class Trouble players are either humans trying to shut down a murderous artificial intelligence or humanoid robots intent on murdering everyone else before they can do that. It's your classic social deduction setup.

Robot Lord Rising is co-op tactics in 30 second bursts
https://www.pcgamer.com/robot-lord-rising-is-a-co-op-tactical-game-in-30-second-bursts/
We don't get enough good cooperative tactics games. We also don't get enough real-time tactics games. Well, Swedish indie developers Limit Break are solving my problems with Robot Lord Rising, an upcoming arena battle game where you use a deck of action cards to program your heroes in fast-paced battles against monstrous robot bosses.

Stellaris: Nemesis will be out in April if you want to watch the galaxy burn
https://www.pcgamer.com/stellaris-nemesis-release-date/
If you enjoy seeing fleets of spaceships translating in and out of hyperspace with a big old whoosh I heartily recommend the new trailer for the Nemesis expansion for Stellaris. First announced in February with another flashy trailer, Nemesis will be the add-on for you if you want your sci-fi strategy to come with an endgame challenge—in this case, a choice between becoming a Custodian who unites the galaxy against a single threat, or a Menace who embodies that threat.

Europa Universalis 4: Leviathan will add options for diplomacy, and 'playing tall'
https://www.pcgamer.com/europa-universalis-4-leviathan-will-add-options-for-diplomacy-and-playing-tall/
During today's Paradox Insider event, Johan Andersson—the studio manager of Paradox Tinto, which opened last year—caught us up on what's coming with this month's Leviathan expansion for Europa Universalis 4.