by Simeon - 2 days ago
In the event you’ve played your justifiable share of roguelikes and turn-based techniques video games, Pathway presents as a well-known and very appealing package deal. Most clearly, it's a hybrid of XCOM-style fight and board game-style motion punct...
by Simeon - 3 weeks ago
Clone console hardware has come a great distance over the previous 15 years. What was the area of sketchy shopping center kiosks offering off-brand NESes claiming to include 1,000 video games (990 of which have been unusually named hacks of Tremendou...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
More than any freshly launched shared-world shooter to date, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 presents a polished, well-thought-out initial progression path with at least some gas left in the tank after the fact. Its great gunplay, worthwhile loot, and be...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
Left Alive tries to be so, so many things: a stealth game, a military thriller, a third-person shooter, and an urban survival adventure. And yet it fails on every level, including at performing acceptably on a PC above the recommended specs. When the...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
I love One Piece. I love its world, its characters, and its sense of humor, all of which are wonderfully realized in One Piece World Seeker. As an original and interactive One Piece adventure, World Seeker actually delivers a respectable story with i...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
The first Devil May Cry sparked my love of action games in general, but as the series has gone on it’s kept that place in my heart because they aren’t just about killing every enemy in a room. They’re about how you killed every enemy in a room, expre...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
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by Simeon - 1 month ago
As the third and final episode of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Legacy of the First Blade DLC, Bloodline is a satisfying conclusion to the self-contained machinations that were set in motion back in December of last year. While most of the episode’s que...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
After more than 20 years, five mainline games, and plenty of special editions and spinoffs, the Dead or Alive series of fighting games is very much a known quantity. Women (and some men) in suggestive costumes beat each other up and down in a fast-pa...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
Ape Out is Hotline Miami on an intense diet of bananas and Buddy Rich records; a top-down simian splatterfest set to a superb soundtrack of jazzy drums and crashing cymbals, bundled into an extremely elegant and cool package. Blending elements of old...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
Some horror games offer little more than cheap jump-scares and buckets of gore, but Devotion is the kind of psychological horror with the potential to keep you thinking for weeks after you've beaten it. It's expertly-paced and doesn’t stick around l...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
I’ve long since stopped physically leaning into my turns while playing racing games, but something about the Trials series still has me twisting and jumping in my seat as if doing so will just give my rider that little bump they need to get over an o...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
If you asked me what traditionally PC-centric genre would be least likely to work with a gamepad, a complex grand strategy game of Stellaris’ breed would be near the top of the list. But much to my surprise, the team behind the Console Edition of Par...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
I’ve played far too many games like Anthem, an online RPG that only makes good on its promise of meaningful multiplayer gameplay and progression after you’ve labored through its long-winded and repetitive story quests. These pitfalls don’t have to be...
by Simeon - 1 month ago
Dirt Rally 2.0 is a first-rate return to the more serious side of Codemasters’ off-road catalogue. It may be hot on the heels of Dirt 4 – with a couple of tricks pulled from its friendlier stablemate – but make no mistake: Dirt Rally 2.0 reasserts th...