Conan Exiles (Early Access) Funcom When Conan Exiles debuted in January of 2017, I immediately snapped it up. Anything to do with Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian mythos is a must-have as far as I’m concerned. Then I actually played… Read More »Conan Exiles (Early Access) Review – A Year’s Worth of Improvements Shows
Rust Facepunch Studios I, like many gamers out there, have a love/hate relationship with the survival game known as Rust. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure we’ve all heard of the incredibly toxic and unwelcoming community… Read More »Rust (Early Access) Review – A Bump in the Road
Distrust Cheerdealers As an indie horror film director myself, I’ve been weaned on a lifelong diet of horror films, all the way from the 50s on up to around the early 90s, when the vast majority of them started becoming… Read More »Distrust Review – Fun-Theme Wrapped Around a Somewhat Disappointing Flaw
The Long Dark Hinterland I’ve become a pretty big fan of survival games, at least the few good ones out there. To me, what makes a survival experience great is its atmosphere, as well as its game mechanics. While… Read More »The Long Dark Review – Realistic Survival Goodness
Miscreated Entrada Interactive LLC I’ll never forget my first game of Miscreated, well over a year ago. A friend and I dropped into a server with a low player count so that we could learn the basics of the game,… Read More »Miscreated (Early Access) Review – A Fierce Fight for Survival
Dead by Daylight Behaviour Digital/Starbreeze Studios I watched on in spectator mode as my gaming buddy—the last Survivor—strode on through the dilapidated auto wrecker yard. The yard’s many patches of overgrown weeds provided him with limited concealment opportunities, where he’d… Read More »Dead by Daylight Review – After One Year it Finally Emerges as a True Fright-Fest
Empyrion – Galactic Survival Eleon Game Studios While the rest of the survival genre is pretty much on fire right now, with games such as Conan: Exiles, Ark – Survival Evolved, and Rust as popular as ever, science fiction survival… Read More »Empyrion – Galactic Survival – A Hidden Space Exploration Gem
Empyrion – Galactic Survival Eleon Game Studios Survival and crafting games are harkening in a new era of the gaming industry. When I think back to games that I used to play when I was younger, during the dawn of… Read More »Empyrion – Galactic Survival – No Man’s What?
Rust Facepunch Studios We moved our digital characters’ little footsies as fast as they would carry us—all ten of our raiding party that is. We were heading towards the crest of a hill ahead of us, just as the morning… Read More »Rust (Alpha) Review – An Fun Yet Masochistic Survival Experience
Rust Facepunch Studios My digital avatar stood with his feet frozen to the spot, as stiff as the snowy biome that my two friends and I had decided to erect our base in. I gazed across a flowing river at… Read More »Rust (Alpha) Review – An Addictively Grueling Survival Experience
RimWorld Ludeon Studios My three intrepid colonists had successfully crash-landed on a titular rimworld: a distant, isolated planet lacking in any sort of strong central government, and which was low in population density. We set about to building a makeshift… Read More »RimWorld (Early Access) Updated Review – The Ultimate Colony Survival Experience
Ark: Survival Evolved – Scorched Earth DLC Studio Wildcard I know, I know…it seems like every time you turn around, someone else is coming out with yet another survival game. Whether it be post-apocalyptic zombie survival (H1Z1, Day Z, 7… Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved – Scorched Earth DLC Review – Brutal but Fun