If I could shout one thing from the horror video game mountains, it’d be, “stop designing hide-and-seek monster segments and time-limit escape ones if your level design doesn’t work with…

The post-apocalyptic world of Nier: Automata thrives on its mysteries. Its ruined Earth setting is a playground of mayhem where fashionable androids lay waste to less sophisticated looking robots. Its premise of…

It’s easy to discount Chicken Police on account of its gimmicky premise, but animals and intrigue are the future of noir. There’s an unmistakable charm to the game that lures…

After 30 hours, The Crew 2 has left me with a lot of wonderful memories. They aren’t filled with the kind of emergent stories you get from exploring an open world and…

One week after the early access launch of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian is releasing its first major patch–but more importantly, has shared some anecdotes on the choices players are making in the game.…

Machines that can look at people’s memories are a fairly popular sci-fi trope. The Signifier, however, goes about it in a noticeably different way. It’s part-adventure game and part-walking simulator,…

At the heart of any European town founded before the 19th century lies a church. It’s the same with Anno 1800. At the center of your city sits a magnificent cathedral,…

The sun beats down on the battlefield as the war cries of my fellow soldiers ring out. Catapults pelt us from a distance and the giant boulders explode onto the…

The genre-mashing action strategy game Castlestorm II brings players back to the humorous fantasy kingdom where everyone is looking for an excuse to attack each other. This time around, the…

One of the most macabre scenes in A Plague Tale: Innocence is the eponymous plague, manifesting in the form of cursed rats. These vermin have a malevolent, otherworldly presence, their incessant screeching…