Squad (Alpha Update 12) Offworld Industries Back in the day, my friends and I would play Project Reality, which we still consider to be the finest military-themed shooter of all times. PR wasn’t actually a standalone game, however. Rather,… Read More »Squad (Alpha Update 12) Review – Can We Say “Tanks?!”
Total War: WARHAMMER II – Curse of the Vampire Coast Creative Assembly/SEGA By all accounts, Total War: WARHAMMER II has had a slow start coming out of the gate, especially considering how well-paced the first game’s DLC release schedule shuffled… Read More »Total War: WARHAMMER II – Curse of the Vampire Coast Review – Yo-ho-ho, A Pirate’s (Un)Life For Me!
Squad (Alpha Update 12) Offworld Industries As far as military-themed shooters go, a Battlefield 2 mod called Project Reality is the greatest of all of them, in my opinion. It featured huge maps, vehicle-based, combined arms warfare, and a strong… Read More »Squad (Alpha Update 12) Review – A Massive Update to an Already Epic Shooter
Spintires: MudRunner – American Wilds DLC Saber Interactive/Focus Home Interactive Back in the Fall of 2017, I witnessed some gameplay videos of Spintires: MudRunner. At first I thought that it seemed rather boring—big Russian trucks hauling logs across mud-laden wilderness… Read More »Spintires: MudRunner – American Wilds DLC Review – Just Plain Rough N’ Tumble Fun
The Fun Pimps The Fun Pimps Entertainment There are a veritable plethora of zombie survival video games on the market, some good along a lot of badness. 7 Days to Die was one game within the ever-popular genre that caught… Read More »7 Days to Die Review – One of the Most Immersive Zombie Survival Games on the Market
Call of Cthulhu Cyanide Studio/Focus Home Interactive There are an entire plethora of video game adaptations bases on the works of H.P. Lovecraft; a wealth of material that is most often misrepresented because game developers don’t quite seem to get… Read More »Call of Cthulhu Review – A Decent Tribute to a Hallowed Franchise
RimWorld Ludeon Studios Don’t get me wrong here—when my title says “life-draining” I don’t mean that in any sort of disparaging sense. I mean it in a voluntarily addictive one. You see, to sit down and play RimWorld is to… Read More »RimWorld Review – The Life-draining Version 1.0 is Finally Here
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Reinforcement Pack Slitherine When indie developer Slitherine released Warhammer 40,000: Gladius this past July, I was pretty excited. We’ve seen all many of Warhammer 40,000 games in the past, such as RTSs (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of… Read More »Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Reinforcement Pack Review – Elite Units Join the Fray
Destiny 2: Forsaken Bungie/Activision Gamers are a pretty picky bunch these days, and for the most part that’s understandable. Many developers out there release games that are unfinished, unpolished, or both in order to meet sometimes unrealistic deadlines. When they… Read More »Destiny 2: Forsaken Review – A Great Addition to a Relatively New Franchise
Space Hulk: Tactics Cyanide Studio/Focus Home Interactive Space Hulk is a board game that was created by Games Workshop back in 1989, and its latest iteration is in its 4th version as of 2014. I never got into the Warhammer… Read More »Space Hulk: Tactics Review – A Faithful Adaptation of the Classic Board Game
Sheltered Unicube/Team 17 Looking at the current survival games that are available out there, there just aren’t a lot of survival games that feature The Sims type of management with side-cut-away-view management. The only thing that comes close Is Oxygen… Read More »Sheltered (Early Access) Review – A Challenging Post-apocalyptic Experience
Ground Branch Blackfoot Studios It’s hard to believe that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six debuted twenty years ago (1998). It set the bar pretty darn high as far as tactical shooters were concerned. Just as with many genres, tactical shooters have… Read More »Ground Branch (Early Access) Review – One of the Most Promising Shooters Available