Author: Jonathan Bolding

An upcoming action RPG sends a condemned criminal into the depths of a forsaken land in order to get loot and save and/or destroy the world. Into the Necrovale is listed as Coming Soon on Steam, but it has a pretty healthy demo that you can try immediately. Into the Necrovale builds on the kind…

Highly anticiapted (at least around here) surival shooter Road to Vostok has a brand new demo out. It’s a lot like the old public demo, indeed the developer calls it Public Demo 1 Version 3, with one huge caveat: Road to Vostok now runs on the Godot game engine rather than Unity. The in-development post-apocalyptic…

After a few years of development teases, retro-style RPG Skald: Against the Black Priory has a release window: spring 2024. The party-based RPG has been touted as an example of marrying a retro aesthetic—Commodore 64 era, in this case—with a more modern style of game and interface design. To go along with the announcement that…

Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold 2 million copies since release, putting the sidescrolling action roguelike in that top tier of multi-million-selling games. Skul’s Dead Cells-esque and Hollow Knight-like action never had a huge single spike in popularity, but has steadily grown in sales since its January 2021 release alongside pretty regular large additions and…

Creator Consumer Softproducts is back, folks, with a creatively upsetting and extremely intriguing idea for another hybrid FPS and Immersive Sim: Psycho Patrol R, a game that has you as a mech-piloting cop with some kind of almost-surely-upsetting superpowers. Like Cruelty Squad, this is an immersive sim, and will emphasize “a wide variety of routes…

The modernized and remade PC version of tactical shoot ’em up R-Type Tactics 1 and 2 is clearly not coming this year as previously listed. Developer Granzella has announced that R-Type Tactics I – II Cosmos is in fact coming in fall 2024, instead, during a recent livestream. Kind of a shame, because we had…

Factorio’s upcoming Space Age expansion and the free Factorio 2.0 update that goes with it means a lot for the factory-building game, especially because the effort on developer Wube Software’s part to update many game systems and the underlying code base have made huge changes to what’s possible inside Factorio. Elevated trains, for example. A…

An upcoming city builder asks the hard, important questions we all like to ask sometimes: What if penguins built a city? Wouldn’t that be cool? United Penguin Kingdom says that yes, in fact, that would be pretty cool. You can try it for free, today, via a demo version on Steam called United Penguin Kingdom:…

Turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will release on January 18, 2024 after nearly three years in Early Access. The hybrid of PC turn-based strategy with more traditional board game and card game design focuses around strategically expanding a medieval fiefdom’s economy while raising armies to defend yourself against—or conquer—your neighbors. Writing in the magazine back…

It’s hard to argue with a game that sprays particles all over your screen, if you are me, and recently-released indie incremental idler The Gnorp Apologue sprays some particles right good. Starring little things called gnorps, it’s about how they smash a rock and bits come off the rock, and then they use those bits…