World War 3 The Farm 51 To me, 2005’s Battlefield 2 was a seminal title as far as military-themed first-person shooters go. Although it was rather arcade-y feeling it did have some deeper aspects to it which paved the way for other large-scale military shooters. It featured combined arms warfare with many assets on each…
Destiny 2: Forsaken Bungie/Activision Gamers are a pretty picky bunch these days, and for the most part that’s understandable. Many developers out there release games that are unfinished, unpolished, or both in order to meet sometimes unrealistic deadlines. When they do that they risk releasing half-cooked games that are either panned outright, or make a…
Space Hulk: Tactics Cyanide Studio/Focus Home Interactive Space Hulk is a board game that was created by Games Workshop back in 1989, and its latest iteration is in its 4th version as of 2014. I never got into the Warhammer 40,000 universe as a kid because I wasn’t really that much into board games at…
Sheltered Unicube/Team 17 Looking at the current survival games that are available out there, there just aren’t a lot of survival games that feature The Sims type of management with side-cut-away-view management. The only thing that comes close Is Oxygen Not Included but that game’s art style and premise are so goofy and over the…
Ground Branch Blackfoot Studios It’s hard to believe that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six debuted twenty years ago (1998). It set the bar pretty darn high as far as tactical shooters were concerned. Just as with many genres, tactical shooters have become rather dumbed down as they became more and more commercialized in order to attract…
Green Hell Creepy Jar The survival game genre is one of my favorites, right up there with role-playing games and military shooters. While survival horror is another spin-off of the genre, much of the time you don’t have to be facing monsters or evil spirits to experience scares. I’ve been in dedicated Rust games before…
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Obsidian/Versus Evil 2015’s Pillars of Eternity was considered by many to be the main title which heralded in the new age of classic computer role-playing games. It married the highly-detailed narratives of games like Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 and Icewind Dale, with the updated visuals and game mechanics that…
