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Last year was filled with incredible survival games, and there were so many you’d be forgiven for not getting around to them all. Between Palworld, Enshrouded, Once Human, The Forever Winter, and Pacific Drive we’ve been spoilt for choice – but a few stuck out to me more than most. Both Soulmask and The Planet Crafter are slowly […]
With Path of Exile 2’s beta now well underway and the next Diablo 4 season a little way off, another ARPG that’s well worth your time has just unveiled its densely packed new update. Torchlight Infinite Season 7 is the Season of Arcana, and it brings an absolute flood of new content, items, and mechanical […]
Image: Nintendo / Jump Over the Age / Yellow Brick Games / Kotaku, Apple / Kotaku, Arrowhead Game Studios, Rocksteady Studios, Nintendo / Kotaku, Game Science, Screenshot: AIHASTO, TES Renewal Project, TrampolineTales, Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start […]
What happens when you take retro shooter gameplay that you’d find in the old Quake, Doom, or Marathon games and add in some anime girls? You get The Citadel. What happens when you do it again? You get its sequel, Beyond Citadel. Created by a solo dev who appreciates old FPS games and waifus in […]
From top-down, to first-person, to third-person, and back again, Postal is a shooter series that’s been through many gameplay guises, but a few things remain constant – lunacy, violence, and more often than not, controversy. However, one of the best Postal games isn’t actually a mainline entry. A Quake-style, retro boomer shooter, 2022’s Postal Brain […]
Here it is, the day after New Year’s, the first real work day of the year for many as we face a cold winter and an uncertain future… and Steam will have shut down the Winter Sale by the time you read this. How can we possibly carry on? Steam Winter Sale 2024 Well, we […]
Things aren’t altogether great on Earth at the minute, and although consumer space travel seems a long way away still, Stellaris provides a mechanically-rich portal to the stars above. Right now, you can enjoy the spacefaring escapism for its lowest price ever at Steam. Released back in 2016, Stellaris has become a pillar of the […]
If you want an FPS with some real weight and grit to it, look no further than Trepang2. Taking influence from FEAR and the newer Doom games, but pushing against the latter’s raw power fantasy, it’s a shooter that leaves an impression, and you can get it for an absolute bargain right now. The secret […]
Screenshot: AIHASTO Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach and others. The […]
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Carbonflesh. Members of its creative team were involved in several of my favorite point-and-click games, including Primordia and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, both of which offer a depth of literacy and creativity that seeps out of every pore, with their puzzle elements soon giving way to impossibly vast worlds packed […]