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Two Point Campus Review – Easy Does It
Two Point Campus is a goofy management sim made by a British studio that gave us Two Point Hospital. Calling it “sim” might be overstretching…

As Dusk Falls Review – Dog Day Afternoon
Like many one-trick ponies, branching path narrative adventures had a predictable commercial trajectory. They peaked in popularity in the middle of the last decade, primarily…

Stray Review – Cat outta Bag
If you aren’t a cockroach, Mel Gibson, or a cat, your chances of living through the apocalypse and surviving in the follow-up dystopia are slim….

PowerWash Simulator Review – Tension Reliever
Most of the “simulator “games that pop up like fungus these days are simple cash grabs, developed in bulk in eastern Europe. They usually try…

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Review – Musou Extraordinaire
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is an alternate-timeline spin-off to Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019). It uses hack and slash combat mechanics similar to other…

Raft Review – Waterworld
It would be easy to dismiss Raft as a poor man’s Subnautica. Both games are first-person survival adventures at sea, but Raft mostly happens on…

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story Review – A Ceremony of Murders
We can say many things about Japanese storytelling, but one is for sure: from the Western perspective, it is different. And it is not only…

Starship Troopers: Terran Command Review – The Only Good Bug…
Paul Verhoeven’s big-screen adaptation of Starship Troopers, a famous Sci-Fi novel by Robert Heinlein, has left a deep footprint in the late XX century movie…

Card Shark Review – Full House
As the years go by, it becomes evident that the video game medium is maturing in the same way movies have evolved. Real innovation becomes…

Diablo Immortal Preview – Strong Feelings Guaranteed
Diablo Immortal is the game people love to hate. The sweet irony is that a solid majority of those haters will end up playing it….

V Rising Preview – Carpe Noctem
A year and a half after Valheim entered early access on Steam, it’s time for another survival game to conquer its charts by storm. V…

Sniper Elite 5 Review – The Best One Yet
Sniper Elite games have evolved pretty neatly since the series’ inception in 2005. The most significant upgrade came with Sniper Elite 4 (2017), turning the…

Evil Dead: The Game Review – If Chins Could Kill
Putting the failures like Evolve aside, most asymmetric multiplayer action games present a long-term success story. Years after release, Left4Dead 1 and 2, Dead by…

Galactic Civilizations 4 Review – The Old Guard
For most people familiar with 4X space games, Galactic Civilizations 4 represents a trek back in time. Stardock entertainment developed the core idea in 2006….

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters Review – Feels Wrong
Eighty percent of the Warhammer 40K product reviews begin with some cringy variation of „In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only…

Dune: Spice Wars Preview – It Must Flow
One of the best Sci-fi novels of the last century inspired one of the best strategy games in the early nineties and probably the single…

Kaiju Wars Review – Movie Monsters
If your mental well-being suffers from the absence of neon-punk retro tactical extravaganza involving giant movie monsters, Kaiju Wars is here to help. Non-trademarked equivalents…

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Review – One with the Force
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the biggest and arguably the best title in the thirty-plus-year history of Lego games. It represents significant progress…

Weird West Review – Ghost Riders in the Sky
Fantasy in the wild western frontier, as a pulp-cultural concept, has existed in some form since the late thirties. Numerous old comics, novels, TV series,…

The House of the Dead: Remake Review – Pulp Fiction
Picking up The House of the Dead: Remake, I allowed myself a short trip down the memory lane. Together with Resident Evil, The House of…