Game Reviews

The Valheim launch into Early Access back in 2021 provided a way to escape boredom for millions of gamers who had been locked down at home, giving them a chance to explore serene and vicious Viking purgatory along with friends.

Rare is the game that pulls off mixing three entirely different genres into a cohesive experience. But Pax Autocratica seeks to become the first. Telling the story of an intergalactic military governor trying to build an empire using captured soldiers as his subjects, this Early Access title tries to combine the management of a colony sim, the action of an FPS, and the core progression of an action roguelite.

Being a fan of sandbox survival games, magical systems, and creature collector games, Witchspire immediately caught my attention when I discovered that it managed to combine all three.

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked first made waves in the digital tabletop scene just under a year ago, on November 20, 2025. However, now with the recent launch of Campaign III: Twilight's End and the full-fledged port to Xbox Series X|S, Resolution Games has released a truly massive co-operative and tactical role-playing experience.

Every so often, an FPS tries to bridge the gap between arcade shooter combat and hard military simulation. None seem to find the right balance until now. WARDOGS, BULKHEAD’s behemoth-sized, 100-player combined arms sandbox, nails it dead-on.

When the hype train for Crimson Moon rolled around, the marketing campaign sold you one thing: a dark fantasy, co-op, souls-lite roguelike on the cutting edge of Unreal Engine 5. Play as a Nephilim, a human-angel hybrid, and purge the evil city of Gildenarch of vampires, undead, and grotesque abominations known as Hellgrowth.

If you tell me a game is about cloned soldiers from World War II extracting green essence with magic spells, I'm going to say "sign me up!" And then if you add drinking beer to maintain sanity, petting a cat, and unintentionally killing your teammates with grenades, I'm sold!

When Frogwares initially launched The Sinking City, it established a particular niche for itself, even though it wasn't very successful. It was an open-world investigation and puzzle game based on Lovecraftian mythology, where players spent most of their time linking pieces in a "Mind Palace" rather than fighting Deep Ones.

I have always enjoyed the "hold the line" mission type found in the campaigns of classic real-time strategy games. The intense action of laying down mines, manning machine guns, and defending against a relentless attack is where RTS shines.

It's been two years since No More Room in Hell 2 entered Early Access, and the title has been a lifeless mess of poor optimization, controversial decisions, and an overall identity crisis. The developers have done the impossible and managed to deliver an impressive revival this summer when the highly anticipated 1.0 version of the game went live.

Lately, the extraction genre, and especially scavengers, have taken the gaming world by storm, flooding it with tons of cheap copies of each other. And when I started my GRAIN ROT session, I knew exactly what to expect.

How about a game where you spend time locked in the metal bowels of some massive artillery turret?

There are few campaigns more iconic and brutal in the history of the First World War than Gallipoli. And for years, hardcore WW1 tactical shooter fans have been wishing for an opportunity to storm the shores of Cape Helles and fight through the ridges of the Dardanelles.

Hell Let Loose created a niche for itself by providing a realistic experience of WW2, where all of the focus was put on logistics, communication within the squad, and tactics of commanders, rather than pure action. The decision to move the franchise into the Vietnam era has raised quite a lot of expectations.

When the gods fall and Gyldenmist covers the world with toxins, only a Gyldhunter will dare enter the darkness to collect Gyldenblood and restore the Web of Fate.

Final Strategy is a real-time tactical game in which the player is plunged into a rapidly evolving Cold War fallout scenario. When a rogue commander takes over abandoned military bases and nuclear warheads across the world, negotiations become useless.

From wrestling-style combat system to settlement management, Crimson Desert cannot be easily labeled as an adventure of a certain genre. It is a mess. It is highly complex and overwhelming, but it is definitely one of the most engaging single-player experiences of the year.

With such developers as Warren Spector and Paul Neurath in its team, you already know where the inspiration for Thick as Thieves comes from.

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is now available in Early Access, bringing a new spin to the mines and the planet of Hoxxes. Let's dive in and see what changes have been made to the formula that made the original game an instant cult hit.

At first glance, Vintage Story may resemble a game similar to Minecraft, but that is not the case. This passion project developed by Anego Studios is an absolutely different beast.