Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts DLCOverhype Studios Battle Brothers made a rather quiet splash within the gaming community when it debuted three-and-a-half years ago. As an independent developer, Overhype Studios didn’t have the budget to compete with larger game studios so they instead focused on gameplay. Battle Brothers proved, once again, that you don’t have…
Total War: Three Kingdoms – The Furious WildCreative Assembly / SEGA When Total War: Three Kingdoms launched back in May of 2019 it was met with a pretty good reception. Over time, however, gamers have begun to voice their concerns over the game’s lack of diversity. Despite a number of DLC that have since been…
Necromunda: Underhive WarsRogue Factor When people think of digital iterations of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, many of them (including me) recount fond memories of the first Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game (frankly, its two successors sucked). Even for those who never played that classic game, Warhammer 40,000 usually conjures up images of stoic Space…
Combat Mission: Shock Force 2Battlefront Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 represents a 1:1 modeled war between Western allies and Syrian forces a little over a decade ago. This is a hypothetical conflict, mind you, or else you’d have read about it, right? Right off the bat I’ll just mention that the game and all of…
Remnant: From the Ashes – Subject 2923Gunfire Games/Perfect World Entertainment Remnant: From the Ashes was one of the major surprise hits of 2019. Many people were deductive in their description of it and said (in a good way) that it was basically a Soulslike with guns. Actually, there were many differences that separated it from…
Crusader Kings 3Paradox Interactive Despite all of the hype generated since Crusader Kings 3 was first announced, this follow-up to probably the best medieval simulator (up until now), Crusader Kings 2, has deservedly received rave reviews. And no wonder, this latest iteration does everything that made its predecessor great but adds more—while stripping away what…
X4: Cradle of HumanityEgosoft Gamers who’ve been enjoying the newest game in the X series, X4: Foundations, are very excited about the next be chapter in the franchise. Titled: X4: Cradle of Humanity, this huge expansion will be coming to PC some time in Q4 of 2020. X4: Cradle of Humanity will be the second…
Mr. Prepper: Prologue (Beta)Rejected Games / PlayWay S.A.. Video game developer, Rejected Games, announced their bunker-building simulator back at the beginning of 2019. It’s called Mr. Prepper and a beta of its Prologue (which tells part of the final planned games’ story) is now available to play on its Steam page. After this Prologue beta…
Mortal ShellCold Symmetry It seems that every time I turn around, there’s another game coming out that is trying to copycat the magic that FromSoftware created with their Dark Souls franchise. Having played as many of these copies, dubbed “Soulslikes,” none of them really came that close to emulating any of the Dark Souls titles—at…
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete EditionGuerrilla Games / PlayStation Mobile, Inc. Dutch game developers, Guerrilla Games (a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios known for their Killzone series), wowed the gaming public at 2017’s E3 event with a new open-world action RPG called Horizon Zero Dawn. Horizon Zero Dawn reaped numerous rewards, garnering high praise…