Latest articles by Dominic Tarason
Blood Typers is a budget-priced fusion of Typing of the Dead and co-op survival horror
Sticky keys The Resident Evil Outbreak successor I didn't know I needed to type about.
No-Skin is an incredibly simple horror roguelike about the worst party ever, full of strong booze, bad conversation and eldritch violence
News Maybe you should have stayed home.
Rusty Rabbit turns Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu into a fluffy bunny
News Rusty Rabbit's demo barely lets you nibble at the carrot, but still seems like a promising game from an unlikely studio.
The Local is a free and blazingly-fast tribute to surf maps and bunny hopping
News A lightning-fast (and free) love letter to the weird and busted movement mechanics of early FPS games.
Judging by the demo—out now—Ruffy and the Riverside might be one of this year's best platformers
News A cheery introduction to dark arts and crafts.
Heart of the Machine is Crusader Kings for speculative sci-fi nerds, flipping the script on the cult AI War series
Electric sheep Skynet, Ultron or Shodan—Heart of the Machine lets you roleplay your dream machine overlord.
BattleTech has grown into a sprawling, must-play mech war sim
Stomp & Clap An enormous overhaul mod brings practically everything from BattleTech tabletop into the 2018 game.
Techno Banter channels Yakuza and Bojack Horseman as you destroy club rejects with words
News Your bark's worse than your bite.
After a decade of delays, Defenders Quest 2 is finally out, bringing with it wild character designs and nostalgic tower defense shenanigans
News This tower defense RPG has been a long time coming.
Put Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Hades and Risk of Rain in a blender and you get Helskate, plus a whole lot of jank
Hell's bails Helskate's skate punk spirit can't overcome code more scuffed than Tony Hawk's kneepads
DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse
News All shell, no ghost.
Butcher's Creek is a short, sweet and brutal FPS video nasty from the maker of Dusk
News Get naked and start a fight.
Beyond Citadel is a horny, ultra-violent retro FPS that I want to recommend to everybody and nobody
Trigger warning Smart, tactical shooting hidden under a veneer of unparalleled anime body-dismantling.
Synduality Echo of Ada review: Misguided mech extraction
Faint Echo Synduality aims to be an extraction shooter, anime tie-in and solo mech game, and falls short of all three.
The 20 best hidden gems from 2024 to grab before the end of the Steam Winter sale
🕵️💎 Deep discounts and deep cuts as we delve into some of 2024's most criminally overlooked indie games.
The Spirit of the Samurai is an impressive work of stop-motion art paired with a dissatisfying, frustrating action game
Shallow cuts A stylish slash 'em up creaking under the weight of its own ideas.
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an experimental adventure about time travel and climate collapse, told through the medium of miniature golf
News It's not a great golf game, but it's a fascinating, experimental narrative adventure.
Voin has the power of a god, anime and black metal album cover art on its side
News The first-person action RPG makes a spectacularly metal early access debut.
Creeper World IXE breaks the RTS mold and adds a dash of Noita's alchemy to the gooey war
Goo fighters The cult defensive RTS returns.
Tower of Mask amps up Legend of Grimrock-style dungeons with soulslike aggression
News Dodge, weave and fall into death pits in Tower of Mask, a retro dungeon crawler with modernized combat.
Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG splices Baldur's Gate 3 with Mount & Blade, and you can grab it in early access for less than $20
News False flag operations and betrayals make backstabbing more than a flanking action in this sandbox CRPG.
Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign
News Civilization 7 aims to keep you invested until the end, even if it means changing sides mid-campaign.
Total Chaos mutates from a Doom mod into one of next summer’s most promising survival horror chillers
News Total Chaos is a bold first-person survival horror game from the tiny studio behind Turbo Overkill.
