Stellaris: Ancient Relics Story Pack Paradox Interactive Within the science fiction genre and across all form of media (literature, comics, video games, films, etc.) there has been one trope that usually remains constant—humans discovering the remnants of ancient, incredibly powerful… Read More »Stellaris: Ancient Relics Story Pack Review – The Race for Shiny Space Baubles Begins!
Heat Codehatch Yeah, PC gamers pretty much have it made as far as being able to play games of virtually any genre out there. Even fighting games have found a home on the PC, thanks to fighting game stalwarts Tekken… Read More »Heat Review – A “We’ll See” Wild West-Themed Survival Sandbox Game
Deathgarden: Blood Harvest Behavior Digital Asymmetrical multiplayer games are hard to pull off, at least that’s the way it seems. Having a lone killer go up against multiple weaker enemies is a cool concept, but many folks don’t know how… Read More »Deathgarden: Blood Harvest (Early Access) Review – A Fast Twitcher’s Paradise
Warhammer Chaosbane Eko Software/Bigben Interactive The ebb and flow of gaming genres peaks and dips according to what developers think the market wants at any given time. One of the genres which has been relatively steady is the action… Read More »Warhammer Chaosbane Review – A Grand, Hack-and-Slash-y Good Time
Hell Let Loose Black Matter/Team17 Digital Our squad leader barked orders at us as we scrambled into the front yard of a cottage. We were on the outskirts of the Norman town of St Marie Du Mont and as Americans,… Read More »Hell Let Loose Preview – A Gritty, Tactic WW2 Shooter with Some Serious Gravitas
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!