Minor spoilers follow: Developer Endnight describes The Forest as a “terrifying first person survival horror simulator” and it is certainly all of those things. In development for four years, The Forest originally […]
Genetic Disaster by French developer Team8 Studio is co-op, multidirectional shoot ‘em up in the style of Enter the Gungeon and similar titles. You and three other players can use the more […]
From the Tron-style motorbikes, to the tube-shaped tracks allowing a full spiral of movement, Cologne, an arcade-style racing title developed by Nhneno Games, elicits the feel of classic future-inspired racing games like […]
BattleTech is back—though, it never really left completely. Started as a tabletop game in 1984, the BattleTech franchise has spawned numerous video games, notably the MechWarrior series. When I was a kid […]
The Thin Silence developed by Two PM is a little difficult to talk about. It’s not because its themes are hard, though it does carry some weighty subject matter–it’s the actual game […]
There’s this weird little thrill you get when playing a strategy management title. It’s the moment when you lay out a new structure, and your workers scuttle about, making your orders happen. […]
One of my most memorable gaming experiences was when a friend introduced me to the 90s PC Sierra title, Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers. It was a point-and-click […]
I’m going to admit something to you: I was pretty hyped about developer Iron Galaxy’s apocalyptic monster slayer Extinction. It looked to me like an Attack on Titan anime meets Dungeon Defenders […]
Double Kick Heroes is a heavy-metal rhythm shoot ‘em up set across a post-apocalyptic USA. It emerged from Ludum Dare 34 back in 2015 when the developers which would later make up […]
Take away the spaceships, magic swords, and all portents of destiny, and the most epic of adventures boil down to getting from point A to point B. This hero’s journey has been […]
Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called Robotron, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. I bring […]
Developer Haemimont is best known for the last few Tropico games—a series of city building and construction management games where you would take the role of a dictator overseeing a small island […]
