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Here's a mystery game about salami starring a duck
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/heres-a-mystery-game-about-salami-starring-a-duck/
Have you ever played beloved, award-winning mystery game Return of the Obra Dinn and thought "I enjoy this puzzle-mystery format but I wish it was actually very different?" If so, well, there's a game for you now. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a just-released casual mystery adventure about a world of animals, stolen lunches, and a somewhat down on his luck duck.

Optimize your production chains in the free preview for minimalist sim Masterplan Tycoon
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/optimize-your-production-chains-in-the-free-preview-for-minimalist-sim-masterplan-tycoon/
There's now a free prologue-style preview for the minimalist resource management sim Masterplan Tycoon, just released this week in the form of Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations. The  demo takes you through early stages of building out your empire of flowing stuff, letting you plop down camps, quarries, farms, and factories.

With a new edition on the way, the current version of life-devouring fantasy board game Talisman goes free to play
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/board-games/with-a-new-edition-on-the-way-the-current-version-of-life-devouring-fantasy-board-game-talisman-goes-free-to-play/
Talisman is a powerfully silly fantasy board game originally published by Games Workshop in 1983—its original inspiration was a game about teachers competing to become school principal—which has gone through several editions and publishers over the years. The fourth edition by Black Industries, later revised and reprinted by Fantasy Flight Games, was also translated into Talisman: Digital Edition by Nomad Games and released on PC in 2014. In the decade since then it's received multiple expansions, but as of now the base game is available for free on Steam and GOG.

Valve casually upends the Dota 2 meta by adding innate powers to all 124 heroes
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/valve-casually-upends-the-dota-2-meta-by-adding-innate-powers-to-all-124-heroes/
Dota 2 has gotten a particularly game-bending update this month. Despite its simple name, Gameplay Update 7.36 has changed how all 124 heroes in Dota 2 play by fundamentally tweaking the structure of a character: Every single hero now has an innate ability of some kind, up from a mere... 7 heroes before. To boot, every single hero now has two Facets, a  binary choice of gameplay styles or bonuses that you choose before the match even starts.

Explore some excellent open-world puzzling in Isles of Sea and Sky
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/explore-some-excellent-open-world-puzzling-in-isles-of-sea-and-sky/
Lovers of exploration-based puzzlers and clever twists on old game styles should do themselves a favor and check out the recently-released Isles of Sea and Sky. In it, you explore an oceanic world of magical islands, all of which are jam-packed with classic sokoban (block-pushing) puzzles to solve. 

An indie parkour game is blowing up among sport fans and genre enthusiasts
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sports/an-indie-parkour-game-is-blowing-up-among-sport-fans-and-genre-enthusiasts/
A recent Steam release from a solo indie developer has really taken off, racking up nearly a thousand overwhelmingly positive reviews since it released into early access on May 21. Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game is a sport game focused entirely on the experience of parkour and freerunning—which is to say it's not also a shooter or a game about stabby people in hoods.

Baldur's Gate 3 head writer reveals we almost got to revisit the first game's 'academic dungeon' prologue area, Candlekeep
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/baldurs-gate-3-head-writer-reveals-wea-almost-got-to-revisit-the-first-games-academic-dungeon-prologue-area-candlekeep/
Remember Candlekeep? The monastic library-fortress was the first area of the original Baldur's Gate, a place for introductory sidequests like curing a sick cow, finding a book in a haystack, and murdering rats in a storehouse. (...)
While you do get to return to Candlekeep in chapter six of Baldur's Gate, we almost got to revisit it again in Baldur's Gate 3. "I had a bunch of ideas for it," lead writer Adam Smith told Rock Paper Shotgun. "I think that it's a good setting, partly because it's going back to where it all began. So that was always compelling. But also because you get an academic dungeon, and there's something interesting about that kind of library dungeon. It's vast, you know, within the lore. And the idea of having this place where you need to go to do research or something, or you need to go down into it. And then you also say, well, this is where the Bhaalspawn was raised—you know, it's very, very attractive."

Larian CEO reveals the studio 'had to do a bit on crunch' on Baldur's Gate 3, but it was 'certainly less' than previous projects it has worked on
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/larian-ceo-reveals-the-studio-had-to-do-a-bit-on-crunch-on-baldurs-gate-3-but-it-was-certainly-less-than-previous-projects-it-has-worked-on/
Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke has revealed the developer had to do "a bit of crunch" to finish its beloved RPG Baldur's Gate 3, but the amount was "certainly less" than the studio has done on previous projects.
>> I wonder if it was then that they added the fig leaves to cover the naughty parts.

A delightfully-detailed, Discworld-inspired inn manager with absurd furniture customisation stashed in the larder: Tavern Keeper enters early access this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/a-delightfully-detailed-discworld-inspired-inn-manager-with-absurd-furniture-customisation-stashed-in-the-larder-tavern-keeper-enters-early-access-this-year/
Game Dev Tycoon was a bit of a phenomenon back in the day. Released in 2012, Greenheart Games' first major title quickly achieved viral success due, in part, to being a neat little management game about the industry itself—making it a popular choice for YouTubers and streamers. 
Over a decade later, the studio's ready to put its next game out into the wild: Tavern Keeper, a game about, well, keeping taverns.

Helldivers 2 players have successfully emancipated the Emancipator mech from the automaton assembly line, and of course the dual-autocannon exosuit has triggered another debate about balance
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-players-have-successfully-emancipated-the-emancipator-mech-from-the-automaton-assembly-line-and-of-course-the-dual-autocannon-exosuit-has-triggered-another-debate-about-balance/
Helldivers 2's community has once again liberated a new vehicle stratagem from the tin-can clutches of the automatons, wresting control of the robot Petafactory on the planet Varylia 5 and converting it to produce Emancipator exosuits. This new mech comes in a fetching yellow paint job, and is armed with twin autocannons perfect for pulverizing the enemies of Managed Democracy into mulch.