Far Cry 5 Ubisoft Ubisoft’s new open-world title, Far Cry 5, starts off with quite a heavy dose of atmosphere. You play a nameless rookie deputy who is part of a fugitive apprehension party riding on board a helicopter. Across… Read More »Far Cry 5 Review – Open-World Done Right
Far Cry 5 Ubisoft When I first booted up Ubisoft’s new open-world, first-person shooter, Far Cry 5, I knew that it was something special. The introduction, which has you as a nameless law enforcement rookie riding along in a helicopter,… Read More »Far Cry 5 Review – A Fanatical Attention to Detail
Aven Colony Mothership Entertainment Aven Colony is a science fiction colony building and management simulator. Initially, it reminded me of a browser game, but more complex. Yet not as fully-featured as other games within the genre. It seems to fit… Read More »Aven Colony Review – A Decent Science Fiction Colony Sim
Rust Facepunch Studios Rust recently exited Early Access. It’s one of those indie survival titles that has become synonymous with the term “toxic community.” Basically, if you mention that term and “game” people will know that you’re most likely… Read More »Rust Review – If You Have Lots of Time, Rust Has a Place For it
Darwin Project Scavengers Studio Battle royale games are gaining some serious momentum these days. The first one to gain prominence was H1Z1, which has since garnered tons of notoriety for its questionable netcode and sloshy hit detection (as well as… Read More »Darwin Project (Early Access) Review – An Interesting Take on the Emerging Battle Royale Genre
Deep Rock Galactic Ghost Ship Games/Coffee Stain Publishing A gaming friend and I were complaining a couple of years ago about the apparent lack of games that focus on the co-op experience. Sure, we’ve always had tons of survival games… Read More »Deep Rock Galactic (Early Access) Review – One of the Better Co-op Experiences Out There
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Fatshark My friends and I often wondered why there hadn’t been many good games (there were some really bad ones) based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle IP. Then, about 4 or 5 years ago, Games Workshop, who… Read More »Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Review – Pure Hack & Slash Goodness Pumped Up to the Next Level
Surviving Mars Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive First off, I’ve never been a huge city-builder/colony management type of gamer. I’ve always been more of a turn-based or real-time strategy guy. I like having control over a kingdom/space empire (fantasy or science fiction… Read More »Surviving Mars Review – A Great Colony-Building Title for Space Geeks
Northgard Shiro Games It’s sort of sad that the classic real-time strategy games of yore have pretty much disappeared. Tween-bait MOBAS and E-Sports games have pretty much taken over and see no sign of letting up, at least anytime soon.… Read More »Northgard Review – A Unique Take on Classic RTS Games of Old
Metal Gear Survive Konami Serving as the first installment for the Metal Gear saga after Hideo Kojima’s dramatic and tumultuous departure from Konami, Metal Gear Survive marks a rather severe departure from their usual formula. Konami took a big… Read More »Metal Gear Survive Review – A Mish-Mash of Genres
For Honor Ubisoft I have to admit that I used to be a big fighting game fan. I remember sauntering into my local city arcade with a pocket full of dollar bills, transforming them into handfuls of quarters (or tokens… Read More »For Honor Season 5 Review – Blood, Sweat, and Still-Questionable Match-Making
Stellaris: Apocalypse DLC Paradox Interactive I’ve been playing 4X space strategy games for as long as I remember. Master of Orion 2 stands out to most people as the absolute pinnacle of the genre, even today. Fortunately (or unfortunately,… Read More »Stellaris: Apocalypse DLC Review – Is That a Moon…Or…?