Tag: games

The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre

The latest Steam Next…

When Palworld sold 12 million Steam copies in under two weeks, two things felt like they’d become inevitable: First,…
This absurd trolley conductor simulator gave me 3 separate Steam achievements for throwing grandmas from a moving public transportation vehicle

This absurd trolley conductor…

Troleu is perhaps the most specific job simulator game I’ve played. Inspired (loosely, I assume, but who can say)…
Dune: Awakening’s dungeons are so atrocious that I’d rather get slowly digested by a sandworm than fight through another one

Dune: Awakening’s dungeons are…

It’s 8 pm on Arrakis and I’ve been on a crafting binge. I’m not normally the sort of ex-convict-turned-desert-nomad…
Grounded 2 will have an arachnophobia mode, even for its rideable spiders

Grounded 2 will have…

I used to think arachnophobia was overblown. Okay, you’re scared of spiders, whatever, get over it. Then one day,…
I’ve already played the demo of this co-op pirate survival game for 7 hours, but the boisterous sea shanties my crew sings keep me coming back for more

I’ve already played the…

One completely unexpected side-effect of the pandemic: I got really sick of sea shanties. When everyone was stuck at…
Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam’s top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day

Dune: Awakening falls just…

It’s Dune June and Funcom’s new survival MMO—Dune: Awakening—is finally here. Actually, it’s been here since June 5, when…
Amazon expected this co-op party game to draw in 100,000+ active players, but it hit an all-time peak of just 320 on Steam and now it’s closing for good just 6 months after it launched

Amazon expected this co-op…

Amazon announced today that King of Meat, one of the more disastrous outcomes of its ill-fated effort to be…
Dispatch is the first Telltale-style game I’ve played that’s delivering on the promise of playing a TV show, and it’s even got a compelling management sim tucked inside, too

Dispatch is the first…

Dispatch is the first game out of AdHoc—a studio that contains several directors and developers from Telltale Games’ height…
How to prepare for the Mysteries of Skull Rock update in Disney Dreamlight Valley

How to prepare for…

Disney Dreamlight Valley is rolling out its Mysteries of Skull Rock update on Wednesday, June 18, which will also…
Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: ‘The content… is now controversial in a way it didn’t used to be’

Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape…

Players are in an uproar after an anonymous Jagex employee, speaking to Pink News, accused the RuneScape and Old…