Release Overview: New Games and sales of the week (May 11h - May 17th 2026)
Command space fleets, embark on a nightmarish journey into space, and hit some balls on the tennis court—here are this week’s new releases and sales. Featuring special offers for strategy game fans.
New Games of the Week—Gamesplanet Highlights
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on boar...
Genre: Strategy | Release Date: May 11, 2026
Cylons, take cover! Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is here—and it’s the Battlestar Galactica game fans have been waiting for. Developed by Alt Shift, the creators of the acclaimed Crying Suns, Scattered Hopes puts you in the role of a fleet captain immediately after the fall of the Twelve Colonies: Your mission is to lead a fleet of civilian survivors through space and reach the Battlestar Galactica—while the Cylon fleet is hot on your heels.
Gameplay alternates between two phases: In fleet management, you allocate limited resources, mediate conflicts between factions, repair your ships, and send out reconnaissance teams to points of interest. Then the Cylons strike, and you engage in real-time combat with tactical pauses, deploy fighter squadrons, and fire nuclear missiles until your FTL drives are recharged and the fleet can jump to the next sector. Added to this is a procedural narrative system that makes every round different: time and again, you’ll be confronted with tough dilemmas, including the question of who among your crew might be a Cylon replicant. With each playthrough, you’ll unlock new Gunstar fleets, squadrons, and meta-upgrades. Available on Gamesplanet as a Steam key.
Directive 8020
Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony s...
Genre: Horror / Adventure | Release Date: May 12, 2026
From the creators of Until Dawn and The Quarry comes Directive 8020, the latest cinematic horror adventure from Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures universe. Earth is dying, and the colonial ship Cassiopeia sets off for the exoplanet Tau Ceti f, twelve light-years away, which is considered humanity’s last hope. After an emergency landing on the alien planet, the crew quickly realizes: they are not alone. An alien organism capable of perfectly mimicking its prey is hunting the crew—and paranoia becomes the deadliest threat on board.
As is typical for the series, your decisions determine who survives: trust, suspicion, and a single misstep can decide everything. Directive 8020 introduces a new feature called “Turning Points,” which allows you to rewind and re-make key decisions. The game can be played solo or in local couch co-op with up to five players—online multiplayer is set to follow as a free post-launch update.
Tennis Manager 26
Step into the most advanced tennis management experience ever. Run your academy, develop top talent, upgrade your staff and facilities, a...
Genre: Sports / Management | Release Date: May 12, 2026
Tennis Manager 26 continues the popular management simulation from Rebound CG and delivers the most comprehensive installment in the series to date. You run your own tennis academy, scout young talent, expand facilities, hire staff, and guide your protégés from junior circuits all the way to the professional leagues—based on a database of more than 5,000 players and nearly 2,000 ATP, WTA, and ITF tournaments. New this year is the My Player mode, in which you build a career not as a manager but as a custom-created pro and unlock RPG-style skills. Added to this is a completely revamped user interface with a new home screen, dropdown menus, and a more streamlined dashboard—one of the biggest interface updates in the series. For the first time, Tennis Manager is being released simultaneously on PC, Mac, and mobile devices.
Save with Gamesplanet: Sales and Deals of the Week
Weekly deals, publisher sales, promotions: Fresh deals await you every week at Gamesplanet. Shop smart, play more! This week’s highlights include an Age of Wonders 4 promo, a jam-packed indie sale, and deals on the Panzer Corps series.
Age of Wonders 4 Sale, Starting May 12
If you haven't yet jumped into this turn-based 4X strategy heavyweight or want to expand your empire further, now is the time to strike: The Age of Wonders 4 sale on Gamesplanet includes both the base game and all expansions—perfect for completing your collection in one go. Don’t let the sheer scope of AoW4 intimidate you: The game takes beginners by the hand and isn’t comparable to mega-complex grand strategy games.
Hot Indie Promo, starting May 14
290 indie games all at once—the Hot Indie Promo will really put your mouse wheel to the test as you browse. Three standout highlights in this indie sale: Balatro is an addictive roguelike card game that combines poker mechanics with absurd joker combos to create a true masterpiece of the genre. Ball x Pit is a crisp physics-based skill game featuring rolling balls in Breakout-style gameplay, nasty traps, and clever puzzles that let you explore synergy effects. And Monster Train is a strategic deck-building roguelike where you defend multiple levels of a moving train against attackers simultaneously.
Panzer Corps Deals, starting May 14
With the Panzer Corps Deals, both Panzer Corps 1 (Gold Edition) and Panzer Corps 2 are on sale—plus a range of DLCs for the second game. The Panzer Corps series is the gold standard among turn-based World War II strategy games: precise tactics on hex grids, historically detailed units, and a campaign system that captivates veterans and newcomers alike.
Check out our Deals Hub regularly, click on the “Deals” tab at the top, and scroll through the deals—until your fingers are burning or your mouse wheel gives out.