Somewhere between Civilization and Total War, yet also firmly grounded in pre-Three Kingdoms China.

It’s been a while since we had an update on genre-bending, time-warping, insane-looking shooter Kingmakers. At the tinyBuild Connect on the 14th of September developers Redemption Road treated us to a gameplay deep dive going over exactly…

Like any good long-read, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition reveals its rich characters, detailed plot and expansive narrative over a protracted period of time. It doesn’t chase trends or try to reinvent the wheel — instead, it…

Toy Tactics is a tabletop twist on real-time tactics, complete with goofy physics, and pieces that wobbly rather than march. The biggest problem with a game genre having had its heyday a few decades back is that there's always a massive…

The Age of Chivalry — so-called because it was alleged to be an age of gallant knights, fair ladies, piety and enlightenment — was anything but, if Torn Banner Studio’s Chivalry 2 is the high watermark. This superb multiplayer fighting game…

The peak of rank-and-file warfare during the Napoleonic Wars has always been an area of great interest to me, and whilst the number of Imperial atrocities committed during that age is enough to raise more than a few eyebrows, I still love…

Imperator: Rome is the latest grand strategy game from veteran design and publishing house Paradox Interactive. With a timeline beginning around 300 BC, players are tasked with managing the formation of the Roman Empire  — or one of its…

In 2456 they awoke. Whilst I had always known of their palpable hatred for humankind, I had never known the true wrath of the Bruggan Zealots, nor faced them in battle. For two hundred and fifty years they had watched, seething at us with…

We interview Oriental Empires developer R T Smith about the ideas behind the game as well as the future of the game now that it's fully released.

Bad North - From Shore to Thor

May 2016 in review.

With game series like Hollow Knight taking the indie world by storm, we’ve seen a fair share of Metroidvania and Metroidvania-adjacent games roll out this past decade. It’s easy to assume, at first glance, that if a game is 2 or 2.5D and…

“Men will literally build a new multiverse rather than go to therapy.” That was the main statement of the Reality Fracture press briefing, and honestly, it's pretty valid. Magic the Gathering’s next Universes Within set is closing in on us…

Broken Arrow has received a new DLC that expands the Russian forces in the modern-set, tactical wargame that posits a what-if about a Baltic war between Russian and American forces. Russian Guard adds two new maps, as well as a Russian…

It seems you can’t go a month without seeing a Hades-esque action game on your Steam homepage. To many, the genre is already a write-off. The assumptions that Hades has done it best and the genre is oversaturated result in gamers simply…

Simulator games are often a means of doing something that you can't easily do in real life. Play tabletop games with those non-local friends. Perfectly clean your imaginary car. Table Flip Simulator? It lets you go flippin’ nuts. Table Flip…

Snoop Dogg's latest sidequest is, it would seem, getting assassinated by Agent 47 as the newest Hitman World of Assassination Elusive Target. It's hard to believe that popular immersive sim Hitman has now been out for ten years. There were…

Hades II is a full‑scale sequel that builds on everything Supergiant Games established in the original while expanding the structure, systems and world in almost every direction. You play as Melinoë, daughter of Hades and sister of Zagreus,…

I took longer to write my Hydroneer review than usual. Not because I didn’t know what to write, or that it wasn’t good. I couldn’t bring myself to write it, because it meant I would not be spending the time playing it. Hydroneer calls to me…