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
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice FromSoftware/Activision Being a longtime fan of samurai films—the good ones, which were from the 1950s throughout the 70s—I was pretty excited when Activision first announced that they’d be publishing a new game set in feudal Japan.… Read More »Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Review – A New Breed of Action-Adventure Game
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
Europa Universalis IV Paradox Interactive Years ago, a gaming friend of mine who knew I loved strategy games suggested that I give Paradox Interactive’s Crusader Kings II a try. Since Crusader Kings II is the game that coined the nomenclature… Read More »Europa Universalis IV Review – The Definitive Grand Strategy Masterpiece
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