The subject of terraforming — transforming a planet to be more Earthlike — has been addressed in a handful of games over the years, but few titles are truly dedicated to exploring the concept. The…
April 10, 2024 | 10:24 EDT
This Pacific Drive review will tell you how we get on during our West Coast adventure in this atom-flavored, mad-science romp. If you enjoy this review, you might want to check out our other…
March 5, 2024 | 01:30 EST
Both survival games and games based on licensed properties can be pretty hit or miss, and a survival game based on a licensed property is, in my estimation, an even bigger gamble. In our The Lord of…
November 1, 2023 | 08:00 EDT
Writing a Wizard With A Gun review is difficult. In many ways, you get exactly what the title says. A novel spin on a sandbox survival experience like Valheim or Ark: Survival Evolved, just with…
October 16, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
Dark Fantasy is a term that gets bandied around a lot these days, primarily by pieces of media that could only be described as dark if you were being charitable while comparing them to Hello Kitty.…
August 15, 2023 | 09:16 EDT
Digimon games have always come in a wide variety of genres. Some entries are simulation games where you'll need to correctly train your Digimon to have it evolve into greatness, others are full-blown…
August 4, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
Rarely has a game gripped me as tightly as Endling: Extinction Is Forever did. Through only a few hours of gameplay, I was more invested in guiding a mother fox and her cubs around a threat-filled…
July 19, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Out There: Oceans of Time is a hard game to talk about, as it is equal parts ambitious and limited. The game, marketed as the successor to the indie award-winning Out There, attempts to blend…
May 25, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.” ‒ Cormac McCarthy, The Road If I told you 35MM took place in a post-apocalyptic…
April 2, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
Everyone has those days when you want to give up on society, grab an empty backpack, and move out into the wilderness. Fortunately, with FJRD Interactive’s new game, Among Trees, you get to live out…
November 17, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Even after spending several dozen hours with Farm 51's Chernobylite, I still have absolutely no idea what genre to classify it in. Is it a brutal first-person shooter? A stealth-based survival horror…
July 29, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
After years of promises, Rust Console Edition has finally received its big release. As someone who has gotten very into the survival genre since the pandemic began and hadn't played Rust since the…
May 25, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Once again we find ourselves during the time of Viking conquest, but it’s too bad we’re on the receiving end. The Vikings are considered one of the most powerful cultures to ever take on the world…
May 17, 2021 | 03:05 EDT
Sometimes more of a good thing is just good. Subnautica: Below Zero, a standalone expansion to the original Subnautica, really lives up to that mantra. New players will experience one of the best…
May 11, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Survival games are one of the purest expressions of gameplay you can get on the market today. This growing genre is all about the challenge through mechanics and resource management, about inching…
April 17, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
I am almost constantly looking for a new survival game to play, as there is something about the stress of being stranded in a hostile area with no food or water that appeals to my brain. The struggle…
March 9, 2021 | 12:00 EST
I have never really been sold on the idea of pairing survival games with any kind of storyline. Games like The Forest have tried to make it work, and to me, it always feels tacked on to the survival…
February 7, 2021 | 11:00 EST
I put my fair share of time into Remnant: From the Ashes, and I found it to be a pretty good Soulsborne shooter when I reviewed it last year. It had some problems, like repetitive boss battles and…
August 20, 2020 | 10:00 EDT
At this point, I think everyone has some personal hot take on The Last of Us Part II. If you've played the game or not, you know something about it and I'm certain you have feelings about it. My job…
July 3, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
A short while ago, I checked out an adorable survival game called Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands while my colleague Jeffrey Lerman tried his hand at a Zelda-esque game called …
November 7, 2019 | 10:46 EST
The Boy Scouts of America organization taught me a lot about survival in the woods. Find water, a way to get help, make shelter, and no matter what, don’t panic. I remember a scenario that came up at…
September 11, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
I’ve long thought the battle royale genre would benefit from a blend of PVE and PVP. There’s a certain charm to fighting monsters, only to get blindsided by a random player. That style brings a lot…
September 2, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Remnant: From the Ashes certainly feels like a Soulsborne with guns. From bonfires and foggy doorways to brutal bosses and dodging, it’s got it all. Remnant does take a few liberties by including an…
August 20, 2019 | 04:00 EDT
I love a good cosmic horror mystery. While I got what I wanted with Call of Cthulhu last Fall, it certainly felt like there was missing something. So, I kept my eyes on The Sinking City, hoping that…
June 25, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
There's been a lot of speculation towards Days Gone since it was first announced back in 2016. Right away people worried that it may not be doing enough to stand out from the crowd of open-world…
May 13, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
I liked A Kingdom for Kelflings. The 2008 fantasy city-builder was my first dance with the resource management genre. You took the role of a giant who would assign smallfolk to collect and deliver…
April 18, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
It's been eight months since I last visited Wellington Wells, and a lot has changed in my absence. The developers at Compulsion Games have released numerous patches, fixing many of the bugs and…
April 4, 2019 | 05:00 EDT
I sincerely enjoy exploring and building in games, so Astroneer has been on my radar for a while. Developed by System Era Softworks, excitement built over several years of Early Access. After…
February 5, 2019 | 12:00 EST
Editor's Note: Hours after publishing this review, a 7.6 GB patch was distributed to media. The changes include rebalancing crafting recipes, fixing crash bugs and repairing broken AI behavior. These…
August 9, 2018 | 09:00 EDT
If the zombie apocalypse was real, how would you survive? State of Decay 2 provides an opportunity to find out. The simulation is far from perfect, but it presents a fleshed out, immersive, and at…
May 17, 2018 | 04:01 EDT
The city builder genre is not one known for its engrossing narratives. Generally, as the genre goes, it follows the footsteps set out by Wil Wright long ago in SimCity, with the idea of being more an…
May 1, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Gamers are spoiled for choice in the Survival genre, although many of the games are quite similar in a lot of ways. If you like crafting guns from raw metal and shooting zombies in the face, you…
March 1, 2018 | 11:30 EST
Have you ever looked up to the sky, and wonder what is out there? What sort of worlds, creatures or discoveries could you unfold? These starry-eyed dreams of what’s beyond our planet, uncovering a…
August 16, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
Metro Last Light Redux (developed by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver) is a return to the universe based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro book series. While Metro 2033 Redux mostly followed the plot…
February 22, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I am an absolute sucker for any sort of post-apocalyptic game. Generally, the apocalypse is either nuclear, zombies or both. Give me a ruined world and a rifle cobbled together from scrap, and I'm…
February 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
There's a reason why This War of Mine has gotten the hype and attention that it has gotten since its launch. In the world of video games, taking a view on some of the different elements of war isn't…
December 25, 2014 | 10:00 EST
Zombies are everywhere. Television, video games, the Internet; hell, there are a couple shuffling down the road as I peer out my bedroom window. The very idea of zombie survival plagues our minds…
November 18, 2013 | 09:00 EST