Tag: video-games
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Regions of Ruin: Runegate: Will you clock in?
We’re not sure if we’re a hero or just a middle manager with a sword. In Regions of Ruin: Runegate, you’re basically bleeding food to keep a settlement alive. It sometimes feel as exhausting as it is ambitious. It’s a sprawling loop of side-scrolling combat and town management that somehow makes “grinding for apples” feel…
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Tense, Claustrophobic Arcade Survival in Subway Invasion
Developed by QH Studios and published by indie.io, Subway Invasion is a first-person shooter that drops you into the shoes of a regular transit security guard. You are stuck underground and tasked with defending a train full of panicking civilians from an extraterrestrial assault. No need for exploration. Your focus is on the dark, claustrophobic…
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Before Fate is a Gorgeous Survival Trip
You play as a brilliant scientist trying to save the universe. It sounds epic. But then the hunger meter drops. Before Fate takes the standard survival grind, filters it through a stunning 1970s comic book aesthetic, and throws in classic point-and-click puzzles. It’s a huge achievement for the studio. It also comes with some serious…
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Restore Your Island is a Cozy Trash Sim
Try as we might, we simply can’t have enough of the cozy games. We are tired, however, of inheriting all the dead relatives’ properties. We still want cozy games, just not the same type of cozy. Fifty farms are enough, thank you very much. When Restore Your Island crossed our screens, we braced ourselves for…
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Syncing Netcode: Inside the Gothic Grind of Blood Reaver
Modern wave shooters often prioritize pure adrenaline over atmosphere. Hell Byte Studios wants to have it both ways. Their upcoming co-op shooter, Blood Reaver, pitches itself as a chaotic, blood-soaked arena game wrapped in a deliberately paced, gothic shell. To figure out how they plan to pull off this balancing act without crashing their servers,…
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The Complex Russian Roulette that is Sol Cesto
Games that pretend to be fair are simply the worst. You know the ones. The shiny new roguelites that pat you on the head and promise that if you just learn the attack patterns perfectly, you will definitely survive. Sol Cesto throws away any pretense. It drops you onto a 2D grid and then spins…
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Is Starfield on PS5 a Glorious Fixer-Upper?
When Bethesda first dropped this massive space RPG, it sometimes felt a bit like playing a spreadsheet interrupted by loading screens. But years of patches and loud fans forced their hand. Now it’s on PS5 with the huge “Free Lanes” update and the “Terran Armada” DLC. Against all odds, the game is much better now.…
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Skull Horde: A Great Bone Pile of Fun
There are way too many auto-battlers right now. It’s a giant pile of cheap games meant to steal your free time. But sometimes, a good game climbs out of the trash. One such game is Skull Horde. Playing as a floating skull, your job is to build an army. And then to kill endless waves…
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Puzzling Places is 3D Glue for Broken Brains
We’ve never liked jigsaw puzzles. They hog the table, you always lose an edge piece, and the sheer mental effort of matching cardboard shapes feels like a chore. We admire the people who have the patience for it, though. So, when we loaded up Puzzling Places—a game strictly about assembling 3D scans of European architecture—we…
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Darts VR 2 is a Solid Game Night at Home
VR darts might not sound like the most thrilling concept on paper. It is, after all, just standing in a room of some sort, throwing invisible objects. But Darts VR 2: Bullseye manages to take that simple idea and make it surprisingly addictive. You put the headset on expecting to play a round or two,…
