Weekly Steam Square Issue 155 Covers 007 First Light and Paralives
The 1.5 million first-day sales of "007 First Light" suggest strong pent-up demand for a AAA Bond game after a 13-year absence, while the rest of the column reflects the breadth of genres currently active on Steam.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, ASCII.jp.
The 155th edition of 4Gamer's Weekly Steam Square column, published on May 30, 2026, rounds up notable Steam releases and announcements from the past week. The lead item is IO Interactive's spy action-adventure "007 First Light," a new James Bond game set 13 years after the last one, which sold over 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours after release on May 27. The column also covers the sandbox life simulation "Paralives," the city builder "Town to City," the mining sandbox "Starminer," the roguelite action game "Realm of Ink," the car repair simulation "Cheap Car Repair," Yacht Club Games' action-adventure "Mina the Hollower," the monster-collecting RPG "LumenTale: Memories of Trey," and the novel adventure "Schrödinger's Call." Additional related articles in the same cluster note a limited-edition gold DualSense controller for "007 First Light" available on Amazon Japan for 12,480 yen, and announcements for "Planet Zoo 2" (October 13 release), "Fable" (delayed to February 2027), and a "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" expansion titled "Songs of the Past" (2027).
The 155th Weekly Steam Square column from 4Gamer covers a wide range of PC releases, with IO Interactive's "007 First Light" as the marquee title. The game, an original story about a young James Bond training at MI6, launched on May 27 and sold over 1.5 million copies within 24 hours, according to a related article in the same cluster. The column also highlights "Paralives," a sandbox life sim featuring grid-free building tools, and several other titles including the roguelite "Realm of Ink" with traditional Chinese ink-painting aesthetics and Yacht Club Games' "Mina the Hollower." A separate article in the cluster notes a limited-edition gold DualSense controller for "007 First Light" priced at 12,480 yen on Amazon Japan. Additional related articles cover the October 13 release date for "Planet Zoo 2," the delay of "Fable" to February 2027, and a new expansion for "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" titled "Songs of the Past" planned for 2027.
- 007 First Light: Spy action-adventure from IO Interactive; sold over 1.5 million copies in 24 hours after May 27 release
- Paralives: Sandbox life simulation with grid-free building tools
- Town to City: City builder with voxel art and photo mode
- Starminer: Mining sandbox set in an asteroid belt
- Realm of Ink: Roguelite action with traditional Chinese ink-painting aesthetics
- Cheap Car Repair: Car repair simulation set in 1990s Poland
- Mina the Hollower: Action-adventure from Yacht Club Games
- LumenTale: Memories of Trey: Monster-collecting RPG with about 140 Animons
- Schrödinger's Call: Novel adventure about connecting with souls through a phone
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.