DayZ Bohemia Interactive There are so many genres that have risen and fallen within the gaming world. For instance, fighting games became formulaic and stopped evolving a long time ago. Whereas classic real-time strategy games (the ones with actual base… Read More »DayZ Review – A Serviceable, Sometimes Great, Zombie-pocalypse Title
SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest Grimlore Games/THQ Nordic 2017’s hybrid role-playing/real-time strategy experiment titled SpellForce 3 was met with pretty favorable reviews. People cited the game’s deep character customization system, outstanding art, and compelling storyline as major factors in its success.… Read More »SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest Review – Does This Experimental Hybrid Have What it Takes to Shine?
Conan Unconquered Petroglyph/Funcom Back in December of 2017, a little game by the name of They Are Billions debuted. Created by indie game developer, Numantian Games, They Are Billions singlehandedly created a new strategy subgenre dubbed “survival RTS,” or survival… Read More »Conan Unconquered Review – A New Addition to the Survival RTS Mix
Total War: Three Kingdoms Creative Assembly/Sega Total War has always been one of the most celebrated grand strategy franchises in existence. For the most part, the long-running series has stuck to historical titles—such as the epic Total War: Shogun 2… Read More »Total War: Three Kingdoms Review – A Fine Addition to the Total War Franchise
Mordhau Tritemion Before my first Mordhau match, I read several Steam reviews that gave me some details about the game. In this hack n’s slash medieval combat simulator, not dissimilar to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, lute-playing minstrels—more formerly known as Engineers… Read More »Mordhau Review – The New Medieval Combat Simulator on the Block
A Plague Tale: Innocence Asobo Studio/Focus Home Interactive One of the first things I did when researching the new stealth-survival title, A Plague Tale: Innocence, was check out the development team that made it. Asobo Studio is an indie French… Read More »A Plague Tale: Innocence Review – A Drearily Beautiful Alt-History Take on Medieval France
Conan Exiles Treasures of Turin DLC Funcom My two high-level friends and I had constructed a very large fortress overlooking the oasis in the middle of the central desert, west of the vast Southern Aquaduct. We considered ourselves the rightful… Read More »Conan Exiles Treasures of Turin DLC Review – Another Immersive Culture Pack is Here!
Imperator: Rome Paradox Interactive I’ll have to admit I arrived at the grand strategy party a little late. I’d checked out some of Paradox’s rather granular titles before—games such as Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV, but to me,… Read More »Imperator: Rome Review – An Enticing Start to Paradox’s Brand New-ish Strategy Franchise
Anno 1800 Blue Byte/Ubisoft There seems to be a good variety of city-building and colony management games out on the market right now—at least ones that feature contemporary (Tropico 6, Cities: Skylines) or futuristic (Surviving Mars, They Are Billions) backdrops.… Read More »Anno 1800 Review – An Excellent City-Builder That Transcends Many of its Contemporaries
Total War: Warhammer 2 – The Prophet and the Warlock Creative Assembly/SEGA Like myself, many gamers were a little late to the whole Warhammer Fantasy Battle bandwagon. Personally, I was too preoccupied playing pencil and paper role-playing games as a… Read More »Total War: Warhammer 2 – The Prophet and the Warlock Review – One of the Series’ Best DLC Yet
Fade to Silence Black Forest Games/THQ Nordic My initial playthrough of Fade to Silence started off in an interesting manner. I woke up in what looked like a crypt, as the bearded, manly looking protagonist (think: A younger Mel Gibson).… Read More »Fade to Silence Review – Could Be Decent, After Some Adjustments
Wolfpack Usurpator AB/SUBSIM It was our second mission, so our three-man crew was a little nervous. Even though my two gaming buddies and I cracked jokes about our rather limited adventures at sea we knew that we were playing a… Read More »Wolfpack (Early Access) Review – The Definitive Hardcore Submarine Sim