Author: Jonathan Bolding

In a far-future world where sci-fi cats rule the universe, you’re responsible for making worlds with the help of spiritual technology as an employee of Nekokami Co. By placing tiles to increase the size of biomes you empower them to get larger and more complex, providing more habitat for the Kami, the nature spirits that…

A great way to get the attention of bored games writers is to make your game trailer so hysterically absurd that they can’t help but share it. So it was with Pull Stay, the game I called a “fountain of Japanese slapstick” back in 2020 when its trailer was probably the most ridiculous game trailer…

Bay 12 and Kitfox have released a new preview for Dwarf Fortress’ upcoming revamped adventure mode, the classic top-down RPG side of the famous colony builder slash fantasy world simulator. The preview itself focuses on the combat menus and actions, with Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams taking the viewer through the basics of the UI…

An upcoming turn-based tactics game hearkens back to the earliest days of the genre: Archrebel Tactics, an in-development indie game from solo developer Ularis Badler, draws directly from the well of Rebelstar, the 1984 ZX Spectrum ur-tactics game from Julian Gollop, the man who would later steer the creation of X-Com. Archrebel Tactics will put…

Veteran real-time strategy studio Petroglyph has released a cute new RTS in Early Access on Steam: 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far is a classic-style setup of building bases, cranking out units, and battering your enemy from every direction as fast as you can. It’s just the kind of thing you’d expect from a studio…

Most people who play Dungeons & Dragons have a story about the time a relatively innocuous, low-level magic spell bypassed a series of complex challenges and difficult fights… because the Dungeon Master forgot that it existed. Baldur’s Gate 3 has exactly that feature included, and many players have recently been shocked to find that the…

Helldivers 2 is picking up viral success—if you haven’t noticed all the articles we’ve written about its overburdened servers by now—and with that success have come the swarm of predictable and boring bloodsuckers, scammers, profiteers, and hangers-on that you might expect. The most formidable manifestation of this, so far, is the huge swarm of stuff…

The historically-flavored 4X Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 is free to play on Steam this weekend, letting anyone try the core experience of the most recent game in the long-running and genre defining strategy series. The core game is free, which includes some eight years of updates and free civilizations to play as—enough to keep you…

(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) The upcoming Age of Mythology: Retold has been shown off in-depth for the first time today during Microsoft’s New Year, New Age livestream, marking the first showing of the definitive edition of everyone’s favorite Age spinoff since its announcement in late 2022.  The new video segment showed off some of…

An upcoming indie soulslike is attracting attention for its colorful, and quite attractive, use of the aesthetics and colors of premodern Italian fashion and folklore. Enotria: The Last Song doesn’t stand out too much on the gameplay so far, but the developers at Jyamma are focusing hard on making this thing look really good and…