Deathgarden: Blood Harvest Behavior Digital Asymmetrical multiplayer games are hard to pull off, at least that’s the way it seems. Having a lone killer go up against multiple weaker enemies is a cool concept, but many folks don’t know how to mix the right ingredients in order to achieve that special thing called balance. Many…
Hell Let Loose Black Matter/Team17 Digital Our squad leader barked orders at us as we scrambled into the front yard of a cottage. We were on the outskirts of the Norman town of St Marie Du Mont and as Americans, had weathered quite a considerable German blitzkrieg—or so we thought. Just as our last man…
DayZ Bohemia Interactive There are so many genres that have risen and fallen within the gaming world. For instance, fighting games became formulaic and stopped evolving a long time ago. Whereas classic real-time strategy games (the ones with actual base building) tapered off and then disappeared altogether. Survival games are another matter entirely. Although we’re…
SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest Grimlore Games/THQ Nordic 2017’s hybrid role-playing/real-time strategy experiment titled SpellForce 3 was met with pretty favorable reviews. People cited the game’s deep character customization system, outstanding art, and compelling storyline as major factors in its success. They also praised the fact that developers Grimlore Games didn’t infuse their little gem with…
Conan Unconquered Petroglyph/Funcom Back in December of 2017, a little game by the name of They Are Billions debuted. Created by indie game developer, Numantian Games, They Are Billions singlehandedly created a new strategy subgenre dubbed “survival RTS,” or survival real-time strategy. By most accounts, this new experiment in genre-mixing has been a rip-roaring success;…
Total War: Three Kingdoms Creative Assembly/Sega Total War has always been one of the most celebrated grand strategy franchises in existence. For the most part, the long-running series has stuck to historical titles—such as the epic Total War: Shogun 2 and Total War: Medieval 2, which covered feudal Japan and Europe respectively. More recently, in…
Mordhau Tritemion Before my first Mordhau match, I read several Steam reviews that gave me some details about the game. In this hack n’s slash medieval combat simulator, not dissimilar to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, lute-playing minstrels—more formerly known as Engineers in Mordhau—are apparently a protected class. I decided to put this theory to the test,…
