Squad Offworld Industries The Battlefield 2 mod known as Project Reality totally dominated my life for quite some time. What separated itself from its more arcade-y sibling was that like its title, PR featured a much more comprehensive set of… Read More »Squad (Alpha Update 10) Review – The Great Military Shooter is Now Vaulting Over its Competition
Distrust Cheerdealers I’ve always longed for a game that basically copied the theme of John Carpenter’s 1982 science fiction horror classic, The Thing (the one starring Kurt Russell). Like my other favorite science fiction horror film, Alien, it placed a… Read More »Distrust Co-op Review – The Little Horror Gem is Finally Finding its Way
SOS Outpost Games, Inc. This sure is one game that came out of left field for me. I didn’t receive any press releases about it. No one told me about it. You know how I caught wind of it? I… Read More »SOS (Alpha) Review – Get Your Improv On
Total War: Warhammer 2: Rise of the Tomb Kings Creative Assembly/Sega As an ardent Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, I used to scoff at the mere mention of anything Warhammer. Whether it be Games Workshop’s pencil and paper role-playing systems… Read More »Total War: Warhammer 2: Rise of the Tomb Kings Review – Kings From Beneath the Sands of Time
Miscreated Entrada Interactive Although indie game developer Entrada Interactive’s post-apocalyptic, survival game, Miscreated, has been in development for just over 3 years now, I actually didn’t heard about it until 2016. A friend and I, looking for a reprieve from… Read More »Miscreated (Alpha) Review – The State of the Game
Escape From Tarkov Battlestate Games My friend and I had originally been against four Russian BEAR operators, but we’d whittled that number down to two. We were playing as Western USEC mercenaries, which stood for United Security, a sort of… Read More »Escape From Tarkov (Closed Beta) Review – Finally Coming Into its Own
Conan Exiles (Early Access) Funcom When Conan Exiles debuted in January of 2017, I immediately snapped it up. Anything to do with Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian mythos is a must-have as far as I’m concerned. Then I actually played… Read More »Conan Exiles (Early Access) Review – A Year’s Worth of Improvements Shows
Rust Facepunch Studios I, like many gamers out there, have a love/hate relationship with the survival game known as Rust. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure we’ve all heard of the incredibly toxic and unwelcoming community… Read More »Rust (Early Access) Review – A Bump in the Road
Deceit Automoton In a reductive sense, indie game developer Automoton’s Deceit, is game which is all about deception and trust. It has a pretty simple concept as well, one that I’m surprised nobody else has developed until now. Six pre-designed… Read More »Deceit Review – Expect the Unexpected & Then Some
The Forest Endnight Games Ltd My friend and I had taken our first foray into a cave tunnel, which was located not too far from our starter base. Our torches cast eerie shadows against the damp, lichen-covered cave walls as… Read More »The Forest (Early Access) Review – A Truly Unique & Frightening Gaming Experience
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Frictional Games I guided Daniel, Amnesia: The Dark Descent’s main protagonist, down the dark and foreboding hallway. My small lantern cast gloomy shapes across the moldy castle walls. The eerie, unsettling moaning of the wind… Read More »Amnesia: The Dark Descent Review – The Scariest Game of the Last Decade
Conan Exiles Funcom I’ve been an unabashed fan of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian ever since I was a wee lad. The fictional, quasi-prehistoric setting of the Hyborian Age has been attributed as the first sword and sorcery universe… Read More »Conan Exiles (Early Access) Review – Funcom’s Fantasy Diamond in the Rough