Farming simulators have garnered a reputation for being the ultimate cozy gaming experience, yet I can’t help but find myself getting too wrapped up in mastering ranch life. Gone are the days of cluelessly buying seeds and animals just because they’re cute. Now, it’s all about seasonal crop optimization for max profit and investing in […]
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Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo, the famed physics sandbox Garry’s Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop. “Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down,” Facepunch Studios said in a Steam update. “This is not a mistake, the takedowns came […]
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I’m no stranger to obscure dating simulators, and the Lovecraftian-themed Sucker for Love is undoubtedly one of my all-time favourites. So, it comes as no surprise that Sucker for Love: Date to Die For was on my list of must-plays from the second it was announced—because who wouldn’t seize the opportunity to seduce another set […]
Read MoreIt takes a lot to get me immediately invested in a sci-fi universe’s backstory and lore, but Underspace got its hooks in the moment it recounted the story of The Speaker, a public orator of legend. When interdimensional conquerors threatened the galaxy, his unbroken 46-hour speech shamed the invaders so thoroughly that they turned around […]
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The first post-launch DLC for Cities: Skylines 2, Beach Properties, arrived in March, and it did not go well. Players already irritated by the state of the game felt the DLC—an asset pack, with no new features—wasn’t worth its $10/£8.49 price, and predictably a new wave of negative reviews flowed into Steam. The Beach Properties […]
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To put it politely, I was a little dubious when I received an email for the upcoming launch of Morels: The Hunt 2. A game about hunting… mushrooms? Seriously? And a sequel at that, indicating that somebody had done this once already and then decided for some reason it was worth making another one? Really? […]
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Adventure mode, Dwarf Fortress’s lesser-appreciated RPG-style alternative to building and managing a colony of dwarves, is finally playable on Steam, with snazzy new pixel art graphics, a whole new set of songs, and the same detailed UI makeover the main mode got when it launched in late 2022. It’s launching today in beta, which means […]
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If you’ve somehow missed the hype over the last seven days—though I’d be shocked considering how much we keep banging on about it—the Fallout TV show is pretty dang good. Its success is rippling out to its source material, with games like New Vegas and Fallout 4 seeing an uptick in player count, and Fallout […]
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So far, I’ve enjoyed watching Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul explore the Wasteland and slowly uncover the truth behind this lawless land. The only problem is that I can’t help but feel a little left out. We can’t control the characters in this TV show like we can in the games, so obviously, this loss […]
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Another day, another free browser game on Itch sucking up a frankly worrying amount of my time. Last week it was Social Democracy, which let me live my lifelong dream of being an obscure Weimar-era economist. Today? New York Times Simulator, in which I live my other lifelong dream of repeatedly getting fired from America’s […]
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As reported by GamesRadar, Hello Games head Sean Murray took to Twitter to celebrate No Man’s Sky clawing another point in its “All Reviews” rating on Steam to 78% positive, noting that as time goes on and more reviews are added, each tick up is harder to earn. “Guys we just ticked up to 78% […]
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Dwarf Fortress has existed as a free game for near-enough two decades, but its 2022 premium version—now with graphics—has gone from strength to strength. It turned Tarn and Zach Adams (Dwarf Fortress’ original creators) into millionaires, and had sold over half a million copies as of March last year. But that’s old news, because the […]
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Long before videogames existed, some bored child, probably trapped in their house on a rainy day, invented an analog platformer with one simple rule: get across the room without touching the floor. Chairs, tables, cabinets, couch cushions, ottomans, anything that could be leapt to and stood upon became a safe space in a dangerous world. […]
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Today’s Star Wars games are built for a broad spectrum of players to enjoy—2023’s Jedi: Survivor, for example, features challenging combat but is otherwise an easy to grasp third person action game. That wasn’t how Star Wars rolled in the early 1990s. Before George Lucas’s prequel trilogy brought the films back into the mainstream, game […]
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I have cleaned more objects with jets of water in PowerWash Simulator than you have had hot dinners. This is not hyperbole. I have done some basic maths (or math, if you prefer) to prove my power washing versus hot dinner credentials*. As a result, I can absolutely put myself forward as a power wash […]
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