The Backstory The Great Leader is dead, and your home planet of Solo Nobre is in chaos. You have decided to join and fight for the Solo Nobre Concern (SNC), which means your legal citizenship has been revoked. You must bring three factions into submission: The Loyalists, […]
Yeah, I get it. You hate Rogue-likes. You hate just clicking on enemies until they die. You hate ASCII graphics, tilesets that look like they were made in MS Paint, and interfaces that feel older than you do. You hate the tedium of hauling around tons of equipment, […]
Created by Swedish developers Iron & Form, Steamworld Heist (and its accompanying expansion, The Outsider) is the third installment in the Steamworld series, following up from Steamworld Tower Defense and Steamworld Dig. The only thing Heist shares with its predecessors is the world in which it exists, a […]
If you’re a regular reader of this web site, then I feel it is safe to make certain assumptions about the kind of games you enjoy. Obviously, you like something strategic, preferably the kind of game that puts you in charge of a large organization that is looking […]
Battle Brothers is a mercenary team-building game set in a low-magic fantasy world that is definitely on the grim side. The land has been torn by conflict and mercenaries like you have decided to try their hand at profiting from the situation. In many ways, the game plays […]
Sense of Wonder The older I get, the harder it is to find a sense of wonder… In my games. Sad but true. Sure, there’s plenty of fun to be had, but finding that one game that really clicks and creates those rare hours of complete gaming bliss? […]
Everyone wants to be an action hero. But that is not who you play in The Final Station – a pixel-graphics, side-scrolling, narrative game from Do My Best Studios. Instead of the zombie-bagging, girl-saving action hero, you play as a paunchy train conductor short on bullets whose wife […]
4K resolution! Hundreds of Hours of Gameplay! Explosive Multiplayer! The bigger, shinier, and longer a game is, the better. Or so we are lead to believe. In the attempt to capture the spectacular, we sometimes forget that it was probably simple, enchanting gameplay that first drew us into […]
Troy stared blankly at his two companions and said, “Yep, we’re stranded.” Oliver looked nonplussed, maybe close to tears. Nate, however, looked from Troy to Oliver to the catamaran then, finally, out to sea. The wheels in his head were already turning. The three of them had set […]
Halcyon 6 is a strange beast. It is a game that routinely prompts me to ask “Why in God’s great earth am I still playing this?” Yet time and again I find my mouse cursor drifting back over the play button as I watch myself, in horror, making […]
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