What to eXpect of Ara: History Untold
Ara: History Untold has been one of my most anticipated games of the year. To be honest, I don’t love grand-sweep-of-history games that take the player from the stone age to the space age. For me, it’s hard to feel invested in a faction that undergoes so many fundamental changes over the course of the […]
What to eXpect: Pax Nova’s Initial Review
(Editor’s note: we’re no longer going to provide release-day reviews, as having a review of a massive game like a 4X game takes much longer than a normal, non-4X game and we want to be as accurate as possible. Therefore, we will now have release-day impressions, with the basics of the game and some early […]
What to eXpect: Shadow Empire’s Initial Review
The year is 8277AD. In a distant and lonely corner of the galaxy, a small jungle planet named Raronia Minor and known colloquially as “Xeen” slowly orbits a long forgotten Orange-Yellow G5 class star at around 1.5 Astronomical Units’ distance. After 3736 million years of cellular evolution and supported by an atmosphere comprised mostly of […]
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Impressions
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, by Owlcat Games, is a computer role-playing game (cRPG) in the vein of classics of the genre like the first two Baldur’s Gate games, Icewind Dale, the recent Pillars of Eternity series, Divinity: Original Sin I and II, and Owlcat’s previous Pathfinder game, Kingmaker. In Wrath of the Righteous, you […]
Five Reasons You Might Like Scorchlands (and Three Snags)
Scorchlands can best be described as a relaxed city-builder with puzzle elements with a hint of the recent hit, Dorfromantik, and a little Factorio sprinkled in. The player spends his time dropping buildings on hexagonal tiles across a colorful map, each producing a certain resource that needs to be refined to progress in the game […]