Tag: games

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is shaping up to be one of my favourite farming sims since Stardew Valley, and frankly it could teach a thing or two to future games as well

Story of Seasons: Grand…

I want to preface this by saying I have played a lot—and I do mean a lot—of farming simulators…
The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective

The best CRPG docuseries…

Before Esoteric Ebb, before Disco Elysium, and before Baldur’s Gate, there was Ultima. One of the earliest CRPGs in…
‘We’re not making GTA’: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is channeling the best part of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided—a dense hub instead of a huge open world

‘We’re not making GTA’:…

I try to keep myself in check, but I admit it: I’m back to being excited about Vampire: The…
All Buggies in Grounded 2 and how to get them

All Buggies in Grounded…

One of the biggest additions in Grounded 2 is Buggies, which are effectively bug mounts. Each Buggy brings its…
Don’t repeat my mistakes in Grounded 2’s Networking mission, or you’ll face an arduous slog back to collect your lost loot

Don’t repeat my mistakes…

In what I can only assume is Grounded 2‘s final mission and boss fight—I wouldn’t know, I’m yet to…
One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

One coder’s ‘winter madness…

Do you ever wonder if Crazy Taxi is just a little too crazy? Wouldn’t it be nice to explore…
Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’

Slay the Spire 2…

Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin…
The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws

The sci-fi survival game…

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long…
This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat ’em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update

This bizarre CRPG features…

We’re in a golden era for the CRPG. Disco Elysium set a new standard for narrative driven roleplaying in…
Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason

Human Fall Flat, which…

Cooperative physics-platformer Human Fall Flat is one of my favourite back-burner games, something I check in on once every…