Latest articles by Dominic Tarason
Retro FPS Amid Evil borrowed a famous anime attack to create one of the most satisfying videogame punches ever
Back in Black The follow-up to one of 2019's best FPSes is a punchy, focused shot of fantasy boomer shooter fun.
Homeworld 3's roguelike-inspired War Games mode is perfect for strategists in a hurry
Space race Time for a change of pace.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew review: superb stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming
Shiver me timbers! Superb squad-based stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming.
Jagged Alliance 3 review: Back in business
Tropic Plunder After 24 years, Jagged Alliance is back to take a shot at the squad tactics crown.
20 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Summer Sale ends
💎💎💎 20 games under $20 that you've likely never heard of.
7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
First! Unloved innovations across gaming history have a way of coming back around years later.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review: For all its many flaws, this is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure
Semi-precious This stealth adventure has its charms, despite a fractured identity.
Firmament review: A graphically gorgeous descendant of Myst
MYSTIFYING A beautiful but flawed new adventure from the creators of Myst.
Ravenlok review: Beautiful, polished and painfully hollow
Jabberwonky Ravenlok is a beautiful action-adventure interpretation of Alice In Wonderland, but its qualities only run skin deep.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor—Everything we know
Re-ordered All the holocron-worthy info on Jedi: Survivor, Respawn's Star Wars sequel.
Terra Nil review
Be Kind, rewind More solitaire than strategy, Terra Nil is still a soothing, satisfying and educational environmentalist puzzler.
15 hidden gems to grab before the end of the Steam Spring Sale
Deals, deals All games from the last year that didn't get the attention they deserved.
The Doom mod of the year just dropped in a mysterious forum post, and goes so hard we don't even want to spoil what comes next
MyHouse of Leaves "Last August I lost a good childhood friend [...] Among his old belongings was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school."
This free-to-play RPG is a gory road-trip through one of indie gaming's darkest worlds
The Tragic Schoolbus Dark, complex and rewarding—Limbus Company is as hardcore as mobile RPGs get.
Phantom Brigade review: An exciting concept begging for structural refinements
20-20 Foresight A bare-bones foundation for future mech wars.
Like a Dragon: Ishin! review: Old-school Yakuza for better or worse
Slash Fiction Yakuza, but as a period drama.
6 games that had a huge impact on PC gaming, but are rarely celebrated today
Lost Expeditions The unsung trailblazers of PC gaming history.
Fans of survival sim Rain World have spent 5 years making an expansion so big, it's practically a sequel
Rising Damp Rain World: Downpour, out now, dramatically expands the original game while also making it much more approachable.
One Piece Odyssey review
Cruisy An easygoing JRPG that's the equivalent of an anime filler arc.
15 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
Deals All of these games came out in 2022 and deserve a spot in your library.
2023's looking like another banger year for deckbuilders
In the cards Here are 11 deckbuilders (out of many, many more on the way) to keep an eye on.
This JRPG platformer's amateurish art hides one of 2022's best and wildest sleeper hits
Dark horse Astlibra Revision looks bizarre, but when you play it, you'll see why it's become a huge hit on Steam.
Path Of Exile's December expansion brings a bite-sized roguelike and a brutal new difficulty mode
Roguish Coming December 9, The Forbidden Sanctum's Ruthless mode aims to be PoE's toughest challenge yet.
