Gaming Reviews

Collectively, I’ve devoted a lot of time to Warhammer 40k. Whether it be the original wargame, the Black Library collection of books, the various video games over the years, or my true obsession: the RPGs like Dark Heresy and Imperium…

As a huge fan of RPGs, I’m always excited to try out new games in the genre. So naturally I jumped at the chance to check out Tako Boy Studios’ Cross Blitz, which promised RPG elements in a deckbuilder —…

If imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery, then The Game Kitchen and FromSoftware should feel quite flattered by The Last Faith. The debut PC and console title from Kumi Souls is an unabashed mashup of Bloodborne and Blasphemous,…

There are no two ways around it: The Talos Principle 2 is a masterpiece, intelligently designed to be not only one of the finest puzzle games of all time, but also to craft some of the finest philosophical discussions in…

Even if you are a fan of the relatively niche literary genre that is hard science fiction, you can be forgiven for not having read Stanisław Lem’s The Invincible. The Polish novel doesn’t tend to show up on internet lists…

RPGs are my favorite type of games, and I’m always looking for more that I can try out in between Final Fantasy playthroughs. When I first saw the trailer for Long Gone Days, I was very interested in the bleak…

The Fabulous Fear Machine is an outbreak-sim strategy game, a love letter to pulp-horror comics, and Fictiorama’s best game yet. In it, you play through several scenarios as one of several ambitious, perhaps less-than-moral agents and assume control of the…

Space travel: still stupider than you think. Back in May, we gave you a sneak preview of a little game called Astronaut: The Best, an “occult management roguelite adventure” from Universal Happymaker. At the time, I gushed about the demo’s…