The game that always makes me think of Wayne Knight Numen: Contest of Heroes has released a new update, now available for owners of the game on Steam.

The patch brings a couple new features to the action RPG, including an auto-save function for when players exit to the main menu or close the game entirely. The update also brings a pair of new screen resolutions, an invert mouse option and a few bug fixes.

From the patch notes:

Fixes:

• dragging of quest items into the inventory now works as it should
• letter about dog’s whistle now correctly drops
• line wrapping in the Load game menu fixed
• a few typing errors corrected

New Features

• auto-save when leaving to the main menu or quitting the game
• new screen resolutions of 1600×900 and 2560×1600 added
• invert mouse Y-axis option added

The title goes for $30 and can be purchased and downloaded via Steam. A recently released demo is available for trying out as well.

A demo has sprouted on the Steam page of CINEMAX’s action RPG Numen: Contest of Heroes, now available for anyone with a Steam account to download and try out.

Numen is a fully 3D action RPG set in mythical Greece. The game goes beyond the standard hack-and-slash RPG by offering several tactial choices that determine the results of battle.

No info has been provided on what the trial version actual entails, so we’ll just have to figure out the old fashioned way and go play. The title itself debuted this past June and runs $30.

After a bit of a hiatus (newborn + E3 = bizzay) we’re back with a weekend jammed full of glorious indie sales, let’s see what you’re dollar can reach today (all sales go through Sunday, June 20 unless otherwise noted):

Impulse brings a couple of deals this weekend, CID The Dummy has been marked down to $3.50 from the already low price of $5. Skyscraper Simulator goes for $16.34, a solid discount from its standard $27.24 tag.

Over on Steam Dark Water Studios’ recently released flying action game DogFighter has been released carrying a 25% discount–now $12.74 instead of $17–which ends the same time as the rest of these offers. RPG Numen: Contest of Heroes has passed its one week launch discount period, but as of this writing still carries the 10% discount offered.

Seems like it is every week GamersGate has Bob Came in Pieces for 50% off, as it does again this time around. Paradox’s RTS Perimeter: Emperor’s Testament is 60% off and is now $4 instead of $10. Wadjet Eye Games’ Puzzle Bots has been given a 10% pre-order discount as well.

Note to Direct2Drive: Where’s the love?

As always, if you know of any independent sales going on that we missed please comment or email: erik[dot]johnson[at]diygamer[dot]com.

CINEMAX, s.r.o. has announced the launch of their action RPG Numen: Contest of Heroes, out now on Steam with a slight discount for its first week of release.

The game is set in mythical Greece, as you control one of nine heroes who must compete in a great test in representation of the god they follow. Not to be billed as a hack-and-slash, the gameplay offers tactical decision making possibilities with enemies having weak points and the selection of weapon crucial to how it effects the creature its being used against.

Numen is available for purchase and download now and has been given a 10% discount for its launch week that takes $3 off the $30 price tag through June 10. From the description:

Nine deities. Nine heroes. And only one champion. Mythical Greece. The land of gods, poets, heroes, but also of terrible monsters and creatures.

Numen is a fully three-dimensional action RPG set in mythical Greece. The player controls one of nine heroes, who in the name of the gods they follow compete in a grand test of their capabilities. Heroes will undertake a pilgrimage over the highest mountains, through valleys and deep forests, underground vaults and the scorched sand of deserts.

Numen however is no mere hack-and-slash game. It offers the player the possibility of tactical decision making, searching for enemies’ weak spots, selection of adequate weapons. It rewards those who are able to adapt to the changing situation on the battlefield. In this the player is helped by the unique powers and abilities invested in him or her by the god he or she follows, provided that the god is happy with him or her. The Olympian gods, after all, are renowned for their wanton and unpredictable nature…

• Action RPG with strong and intriguing storyline and surprising plot turns.
• Detailed 3D design with state-of-the-art visual effects.
• The game world based on the Greek mythology comprises of tens of locations situated on 12 islands with both exteriors and underground labyrinths.
• Many extensive main story and side quests.
• Select your hero‘s gender, his or her specialization out of three possibilities and one of nine deities for him or her to worship.
• Plenty of unique weapons, armors and items, more than 80 spells and abilities.
• Arena duels, training combats and tournaments.

What are you bringing to the table this time around for Indie Sales? Does a deal have to lure you? Or are you sitting there with $10, deciding on whether to get one big game discounted or a couple of smaller ones. You have your options my friend.

The savings are swell this run around the course, and we have everything from sword sims, to tactical RTS, to gravity-light shooters and more. Take a look around and pull the metaphorical trigger on whatever deal fits.

Sales

Impulse is offering some great deals including Makivision’s well received RTS title Sacraboar at 80% off bringing it down to just $4, and an Indie Space Bundle containing both Light of Altair and Armada 2526 for 50% off its standard price tag of $54.90. Mode 7′s Determinance is just $10.20 instead of $17 as well.

GamersGate’s Swedish Smorgasbord Week continues, sales were highlighted previously here but to reiterate: Both PC and Mac versions of Emberwind are 50% off. The same for Bob Came in Pieces and as a bonus the distributor bundles both PC and Mac copies together at no extra cost. Strategy title Imperii is just $2.50 as well.

Steam is running another free weekend for Shattered Horizon, not sure you heard about it. Consequently, the space FPS goes for half off and can be had for just $10 through the weekend, with the free-play portion ending tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific time. Get your kicks in now if you want a free go ’round.

Launch Discounts

Steam also lists CINEMAX, s.r.o.’s RPG Numen: Contest of Heroes at 10% off for its launch week.