Jonathan Bolding
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Latest articles by Jonathan Bolding
Here's a free demo for upcoming survival crafting, monster-battling, town-builder Tinkerlands
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue to the upcoming larger game.
Check out this town builder with a deep simulation of ecology and climate
By Jonathan Bolding published
News In Of Life and Land both your villagers and the local animals need water, food, and more to survive.
Town-building survival RPG Bellwright hits Early Access this month
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Build a town and overthrow an evil monarch in a low fantasy world.
One of the best-reviewed survival crafting games on Steam has hit 1.0 and added 10-person cooperative play
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The Planet Crafter sits at an impressive 96% positive review rating—with over 26,000 reviews.
Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons
By Jonathan Bolding published
News You'll be able to play a wholistic vanilla version of Deep Rock or time travel to game modes past.
Check out this indie fusion of Terraria and Satisfactory
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Autoforge is a 2D automation adventure with some neat stuff going on inside.
The fantasy sequel to Fights in Tight Spaces is just called Knights in Tight Spaces, and it has a demo out now
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Close-quarters tactical card brawling is looking better than ever.
A map revamp means your giant factory-cities in Captain of Industry are going to look better than ever
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Update 2 also brings conveyor lifts, stackable balancers, and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Mining and base-building sandbox Hydroneer has a sprawling new expansion of volcanos and glaciers
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The new island is six times as large as the original one.
Use towers, traps, and guns to repel spaceship boarders in tower defense-shooter hybrid Sentry
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Sentry looks like one for fans of Sanctum and Orcs Must Die.
Frostpunk 2's beta hits on April 15
By Jonathan Bolding published
News For those who are interested in pre-ordering.
Tweak your crazy spells in this tough, traditional roguelike wizard simulator
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Rift Wizard 2 builds on the first game in a couple great ways.
Bandai Namco drops three free games, including one where you're a very messy dog ruining the house
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Plus boomerang surfing action-adventure and robots hacking robots to solve puzzles.
Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Obviously it is so that the combatants can sit down for a nice waffle and a cup of coffee.
Coffee Stain set to publish a stylishly strange-looking new deckbuilder
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Hard to argue with a big old magitech-looking sword.
Here's slice and dice, the roguelike RPG where each of your party members is a different die
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Wizard dice, berserker dice, thief dice, guardian dice—you get the drift.
Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Which perhaps would have made him too devilish a rascal.
Helldivers 2 players find creative ways to punish toxic hosts: 'I ran with your super samples to the edge of the mission area, and kept on running'
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Some people just never learned good-natured good sportsmanship.
How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Just use the good ideas. Simple as.
FF14 Dawntrail will release in July, with early access a few days earlier
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Naoki Yoshida has released the launch date, pre-order bonuses, and more at PAX East.
Here's the demo for an adorable tower defense about green army men battling evil robots
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The graphics and visual design are definitely above average for the genre.
Automate bases to explore and terraform a huge open world in Eden Crafters
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The promise of factory building on a voxel world warrants some attention.
Protect the world's last tree from humanity in free tower defense From Ashes, Bloom
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Be a big blob, stomp people.
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