BODY: A drinking contest with a demon who loves you enough to kill you is not the obvious headline for a games roundup, but here we are. AUTOMATON's 103rd weekly pick of its most-read game features is led by PUKEY GODDESS SHOT TRICK, the hell-themed alcohol Russian roulette title that has finally locked in a December 8 release. You square off against Famme-Sœur, a liquor demon trying to make you hers for eternity, trading shots of infernal booze and burning items until one of you throws up your soul.
The week's other big one: Dave the Diver is getting its final DLC, and it's a crossover with Subnautica 2, sending Dave to an ocean planet to source new ingredients for the sushi bar. Since its 2022 launch the game has shipped a steady run of expansions, so this is a notable farewell rather than another drop.
Elsewhere, Airsoft Online opened a free beta — an online shooter built around actual airsoft rules, where plastic BBs curve in the wind and players are expected to shout "Hit!" when tagged. Japanese Ramen Simulator, delayed when its Steam pre-release review dragged on, finally opened for early access on October 9 with co-op for up to 10 (six recommended). Backrooms: Project Mapping was announced: four-player co-op charting a single shared Backrooms map that every player in the world contributes to. WonderPaws, the free-to-play anthro-animal city life sim, confirmed Japanese language support. And Arknights: Endfield teased the arrival of Rhodes Island in its new "Dan Qing Du" version, complete with a driver's-seat shot and a glimpse of what looks like Warfarin.
The insider take
Two of these land differently in Japan. AUTOMATON described Project Mapping's players as "the Ino Tadataka of the otherworld" — a reference to the Edo-period surveyor who walked the length of Japan on foot to produce its first accurate maps, and a joke that only works because every Japanese reader learned his name in school. And Airsoft Online isn't niche here: sabage (survival game) is an established weekend hobby with fields ringing Tokyo's outskirts, and the honor-system hit call the game models is real-world etiquette, not a design quirk. Watching it ported into a video game is the joke.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).