Sam Kieldsen
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Japan’s FromSoftware has forged a reputation for making tough-as-nails games, mostly thanks to its more recent slew of action RPG titles: Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne. All make star features of their consistently challenging combat, opaque mechanics and deliberately obtuse storytelling.
Back in 2012, Firaxis released XCOM: Enemy Unknown to widespread critical acclaim – and now its long-awaited sequel has arrived on PC.
Editor’s note: We thought Dying Light was bloody brilliant when it was first released last year. To celebrate the launch of its The Following DLC, we’ve updated our original review with the Stuff verdict on its new expansion.
Don’t let the cute characters fool you: Kerbal Space Program is serious business. This is a game that lets you, essentially, recreate the incredible efforts of NASA or the Soviet space program during the mid 20th century.
BioWare is the king of roleplaying games. From Baldur’s Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to Jade Empire and the Mass Effect trilogy, the Canadian developer has honed its craft, delivering games that blend compelling interactive storytelling with tactical combat, exploration and character development.
Survival horror games, it seems, are back in fashion. Whether it’s poking around abandoned asylums in indie hit Outlast, treading carefully through the same stretch of corridor again and again only to be suddenly stopped in your tracks by something horrendous in Silent Hills‘ playable teaser, or confronting the restless dead head-on in the upcoming The Evil Within, it’s clear gamers get a big kick out of feeling powerless, weak and very, very scared.
Company of Heroes set the standard for real-time strategy and now, after a seven-year hiatus, the sequel has arrived. The follow-up shifts the war-game action to the Eastern Front, kicking off in September 1941 with German Panzers closing in on Moscow and following events right through to the fall of Berlin in 1945. But has it been worth the wait?