Tag: games

Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work⁠—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access

Hyper Light Breaker has…

At the end of 2024, I got to try one last hour-long preview of Hyper Light Breaker ahead of…
‘Brutally honest’ city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: ‘It’s a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day’

‘Brutally honest’ city builder…

Most city-builders are creative toolsets with an optional management sim attached, canvasses for the imagination with a budget you…
D&D’s revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I’m already quietly stealing some for my own encounters

D&D’s revised Monster Manual…

Dungeons & Dragons will be completing its trio of 2024 rules revisions—a little confusingly—on Feburary 18, 2025. Its third…
To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don’t have to

To the dismay of…

Hatsune Miku has been doing the rounds when it comes to collabs at the moment. We’ve seen her in…
Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike’s difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: ‘You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge’

Lort devs reluctantly tweak…

Fantasy roguelike Lort is an unabashed spiritual successor to Risk of Rain 2 that launched earlier this week. In…
Halls of Torment review

Halls of Torment review

Halls of Torment’s most obvious difference from its most obvious inspiration is that it expects you to click to…
Marvel Rivals starts 2025 by clobberin’ the most played charts, hitting over 640,000 players on Steam alone

Marvel Rivals starts 2025…

If I had a nickel for every time a recently-released live service third-person shooter gained hundreds of thousands of…
Early access multiplayer shooter Out of Action is, ironically, full of action, with cyborg ninjas blasting each other in a mix of Titanfall and Max Payne

Early access multiplayer shooter…

Between games like Dusk, Amid Evil, Prodeus and Ultrakill, indie gaming has long taken over from the big-budget devs…
Dinner is served in Star Birds’ latest early access update, adding bakeries and restaurants to the Dorfromantik devs’ factory management sim: ‘Ever fed an alien pizza’

Dinner is served in…

Factory management sim Star Birds surprised us when it landed on Steam early access late last year. Intrepid explorer…
Players are still finding edge-case Baldur’s Gate 3 scenes, like one where you play as a kidnapped Astarion even if you made your own player-character

Players are still finding…

As our Harvey Randall wrote, we’re all still playing Baldur’s Gate 3 more than a year after its release…