MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Doorfortyfour “It’s the year 2065, and humanity has launched a mission to colonize Mars. Unfortunately, the Red Planet has already been overrun by zombies. Defend your base with turrets and soldiers to repel waves of undead… Read More »MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Review – Defend Your Squishy Settler’s At All Costs
Tropico 6 Kalypso Media City building games have never been my forte. Sure, I recently bought into the hype and played Frostpunk, but came away from that experience feeling more depressed about the future than anything else. I’ve also tried… Read More »Tropico 6 Review– A Mirthful City Management Extravaganza
Steel Division 2 Eugen Systems Eugen Systems have a knack for capturing a sense of scale that is unrivaled, at least with regards to real-time strategy games. The only other title that I would say was comparable to what they… Read More »Steel Division 2 Beta Impressions – A Very Promising Start
Deep Rock Galactic Ghost Ship Games When I’d first heard of Deep Rock Galactic I checked out some gameplay videos of it and came away feeling pretty underwhelmed. The concept seemed interesting—you play as a small team of space dwarves… Read More »Deep Rock Galactic Review – We’re Goin’ Deep, Boys!
Desolate Nearga/HyTrain Digital Yeah, we all know that survival games are a dime-a-dozen these days. Survival (and survival horror) fans are pretty much being spoiled right now with all of the options on the video gaming market. We’ve got everything… Read More »Desolate Review – A Carefully Crafted & Unique Horror Gem
Generation Zero Avalanche Studios Retro-futurism is something that is really tricky to convey—whether through art or the written word. Creating a world, or even a single work, that embraces both the past as well as the future is no easy… Read More »Generation Zero Review – A Sadly Misunderstood, Modern Classic
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Ubisoft As you probably already know, Ubisoft is back at it with their own version of the open-world, looter-shooter: Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. Don’t get me wrong, their first iteration of the series, Tom… Read More »Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Review – A Meticulously-Crafted, Open-World Delight
The Hong Kong Massacre Vreski The 90s were a very turbulent time. We had the fall of the U.S.S.R., which resulted in the massive proliferation of the Russian Mob; gangsta rap culture was at a “high” point here in the… Read More »The Hong Kong Massacre Review – Maximum Hong Kong Action Payne
Conan Exiles Funcom Conan Exiles debuted back in 2017, and by all accounts was a severely troubled product. It shipped with a substantial number of bugs, glitches, and was horribly optimized as well. Being a big fan of Conan’s brutal… Read More »Conan Exiles Updated Review – Recent Additions Make This Hyborian World Shine
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – The Forgotten Sanctum DLC Obsidian Entertainment/Versus Evil The release of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire stoked the fires of the CRPG flame pit, and showed the gaming masses that good ol’ fashioned role-playing… Read More »Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – The Forgotten Sanctum – A Brilliant Ode to the Classics
Dead or Alive 6 Koei Tecmo The fast and furious, fighting game frenzy of the late 80s and 90s ushered in a plethora of franchises. Although 2D fighters flourished at first, as technology evolved we began to see fully 3D… Read More »Dead or Alive 6 Review – More Under the Hood Than First Thought
Metro Exodus 4A Games/Deep Silver I’m a sucker for good post-apocalyptic games, especially considering I’m also a book author who has written within the genre. Luckily for me, there have been many games set in the genre over the years,… Read More »Metro Exodus Review – A Gritty, Post-Apocalyptic Extravaganza