Author: Jonathan Bolding

So what if you took the single-leader, many soldiers third person real-time strategyy concept of a game like Pikmin, added a dash of the crafting genre, and then spiced it up with a bunch of path-based automation and cooperative play? That’d give you the recently-released Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, a delightful and whimsical little game…

Blobfish have announced that beloved roguelike arena shootfest Brotato will get a full-on DLC and a major feature update this year. The update will be free, and bring in four player local co-op.  Expansion DLC Brotato: Abyssal Terrors will have more of… pretty much everything that Brotato already has. Abyssal Terrors will come some time…

A prologue-style demo for an upcoming action platformer has you wielding a magic staff and two-fisted kung fu to battle enemies and explore a metroidvania-style world of myth and magic. Akatori’s big pitch si that your way of moving depends on a magic staff that can be thrown not just as a weapon, but to…

Indie developer Dapper Dog Digital released their “love letter to the Metroidvania genre” this week with BioGun, a platforming action-adventure that takes place entirely inside a whimsically microscopic world of viruses and vaccines. And whimsically enjoyable it is, with a hand-drawn world and characters that have a wide, delightful, and cartoonish variety in their design.…

A just-released chaotic game in the vein of PlateUp and Overcooked takes the genre to the wild world of, uh, shipping logistics. Asking you to get boxes out the warehouse door as quickly as you can, Ready, Steady, Ship! is playable by yourself or in two player couch co-op, which you can also run via…

A new 2D action-platforming roguelike released today, with Ants Took My Eyeball challenging you to descend into an ever-changing ant hill in search of your missing body part. Swapping between melee weapons, ranged weapons, gadgets, and trinkets, your job is to go as deep as you can before coming back for another try. It’s a…

Fans of games like Terraria and Necesse might want to take a look at an upcoming top-down survival crafting game called Tinkerlands, which just recently released a free prologue—Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure—on Steam. The demo lets you explore an open world island, encountering some cool biomes and building up stuff to check out. As you…

A fascinating new survival city builder called Of Life and Land released on Steam this month: Of Life and Land is the debut game from new studio Kerzoven. In it, you build medieval settlements from scratch in remote, wild places.  The big change from other colony or city builders is that Of Life and Land…

Survival and town-building RPG Bellwright will release on Steam this month, with developers Donkey Crew announcing that they’re targeting April 23 for a release. The low fantasy RPG was well-received during its Steam Next Fest demo last year for its blend of survival crafting gameplay and third-person town building. “Set in low medieval times, Bellwright…

Survival crafting game The Planet Crafter released into 1.0 this week, ending several years in early access with a big patch that added a multiplayer online co-op mode for up to 10 players, a huge change for the previously singleplayer experience of landing on, surviving, and terraforming a desolate alien world. The release also includes…