Latest articles by Dominic Tarason
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.
Best Monk starter build in Path of Exile 2
Ascetic aesthetic Carry a big stick and reach heaven through violence.
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.
Hell Clock explores Brazil’s blood-soaked history in Diablo-like ARPG style
News The Relic Hunters studio tackle darker subject matter through a familiar lens in Hell Clock.
Japanese hip-hop, biopunk weirdness and martial arts abound in the Hotline Miami inspired Sonokuni
News Psychedelic, fleshy horror meets urban style in Sonokuni, courtesy of rapping game devs Don Yasa Crew.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream pairs prestige TV drama aesthetics with the soul of Commandos
News Stealth tactics live on in Eriksholm, an upcoming cinematic, sneaky 1900s Nordic adventure.
Darkwater plumbs the ocean’s depths and finds a mutant hybrid of Lethal Company and FTL
News Darkwater looks to trade comedy for tense naval combat in this Lethal Company-inspired co-op game.
Mekkablood: Quarry Assault gears up for a January launch with some clean mech combat & a filthy cockpit
News Mekkablood: Quarry Assault promises big stompy robots in retro FPS style, with a side-order of coagulating burger grease—shame about the AI, though.
Caves of Qud is leaving Early Access (and Earth’s gravity) in this poetic new launch trailer
News Massive open-world roguelike Caves of Qud is taking a very long elevator ride out of early access soon. And by soon, we mean today.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown trots out its turn-based tabletop tussles
News Next up from the studio behind I Am Your Beast and Clickolding: Turn-based Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tactics. Obviously.
Rogue Eclipse joins a procedurally generated campaign for Star Fox’s contested crown
News All-range mode space combat and Arabesque Futurism abound in this indie space shooter.
Antonblast comes out swinging to challenge Pizza Tower's chaotic platformer rule
News Antonblast confidently banks on bright colours, loud noises and Wario Land nostalgia.
New physics fighter Gladio Mori sends animators where they belong: The gladiator pit
News Gladio Mori frankensteins together Toribash, Die By The Sword and Bushido Blade then sends it to the Early Access arena.
Retro RPG The Edge Of Allegoria does it like Nintendon’t, with rude words and fat blunts
news The Edge of Allegoria riffs off Pokemon with monochrome, low-fi blackjack and hookers.
Just Grill the Steak—what else do you want from this micro-scale cooking simulator that made me very hungry?
News Just Grill the Steak makes a low stakes game of searing the perfect sirloin.
Devilated tries to fuse Doom Eternal with Borderlands and loses its mind in the process
Infernal A high-powered mutant freak of an FPS that defies all reason.
