Green Hell Creepy Jar It seems like every time I turn around, there’s yet another survival game being released. And that’s really no surprise. If you take a quick gander at Steam, you’ll see a veritable plethora of survival title… Read More »Green Hell 1.0 Review – How Long Can You Survive?
This War of Mine: Fading Embers DLC 11 bit studios This War of Mine, created by indie game developer, 11 bit studios, debuted back in 2014. With a unique approach to building a game about war, this title quickly amassed… Read More »This War of Mine: Fading Embers DLC – A Darkly Fascinating Look at War
Oxygen Not Included Klei Entertainment Oxygen Not Included is a stressful, yet very fun space survival simulator. Each time you begin a new game, you’ll have only a few colonists who function as your crew on-board a big asteroid. They… Read More »Oxygen Not Included Review – A Unique Take on the Ever-Popular Colony Management Genre
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
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
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
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
Osiris: New Dawn Fenix Fire Entertainment/Reverb Triple XP Back in September of 2016, indie game developer Fenix Fire Entertainment released their new open-world, space survival game titled Osiris: New Dawn. When I first saw the game’s trailer—which involved a band… Read More »Osiris: New Dawn (Early Access) Review – A Diamond in the Very Rough
The Long Dark Hinterland Studio There seems to be two separate types of survival games on the market these days—survival horror games which feature crafting, such as 7 Days to Die, The Forest, and Miscreated, and the more “pure survival”… Read More »The Long Dark Review – A Decent, if Unremarkable Survival Title
Miscreated Endnight Games I began as everyone does on Miscreated’s fictional Orca Island—with nothing except for the clothes on my back and a flashlight. As I wound my way through a dense forest, I foraged for some supplies and fashioned… Read More »Miscreated Review – Miscreated’s 1.0 Update Finally Creeps onto Steam
The Forest Endnight Games I remember playing The Forest a year or so ago with a gaming friend. Back then, it was still pretty rough around the edges but still managed to offer up a survival horror experience unlike anything… Read More »The Forest Review – Savagely Brutal, Survival Horror Fun
Remothered: Tormented Fathers Stormind Games/Darril Arts Many people assume that just because the original Resident Evil game was the first video game that was called a “survival horror” game that it was also the first horror experience as well. But… Read More »Remothered: Tormented Fathers Review – One of the Scarier Horror Experiences of 2018