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There are few crowdfunded games that have been as widely anticipated as Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Promising a return to the classic f the 2D Castlevania titles, primarily Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the game amassed over $5 million on Kickstarter back in 2015, making it one of the...
Warhammer: Chaosbane
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Warhammer: Chaosbane is giving Diablo quite the ego boost. Set in the Warhammer universe (the same one where you also kill giant rats and have gigantic battlefields of warfare, if you’re trying to keep up), Chaosbane is an isometric action RPG...
PixArk
PixARK is a spin off of 2017s Ark : Survival Evolved featuring the same premise but set in a Minecraft-style cutesy block world. While it has been in Early Access (or Xbox Game Preview) for a while, it’s now officially available. It is a sandbox style survival game set in...
Gato Roboto
The Metroidvania genre has given us many iconic lead protagonists. From Alucard in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, to Samus Aran from the Metroid series, to Juan from the Guacamelee games. Gato Roboto, developed by doinksoft, brings us our newest hero, Kiki the cat in futuristic power armour. This 2D...
The dull and depressing Steppes of the Russian inland will force dread and apathy across stricken souls. Pathologic 2 is the half-remake, half-sequel of arguably the most cult game in existence, Pathologic (2005). Nikolay Dybowski and the team at Ice-Pick Lodge have crafted a psychological horror adventure built upon its...
Conan Unconquered
Conan Unconquered is a real-time strategy game developed by Petroglyph Studios and published by Funcom. The premise of Conan Unconquered is simple: while barricaded in your fort, you need to protect your territory and survive, as wave after wave of enemies besiege your side of the battlefield. With Petroglyph studio...
Observation
Space is scary. It’s dark, it’s unknown, and it’s infinite. Observation is a cinematic sci-fi thriller that gets right to the crux of that matter: if something goes wrong while up there, there’s nobody around to help you.
Total War: Three Kingdoms is a strategy game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The game is the latest addition to the Total War franchise, which comprises games that are a mix between turn-based strategy and real-time military battles. For anyone who has never played a Total War...
Team Sonic Racing
When Super Mario Kart launched all the way back in 1992, mascot-based kart racing with weapons became the next big thing. Mario Kart 64 kicked it into the stratosphere and this genre was a sure fire moneymaker back in the day. For a while, every man, his dog and their...
There’s a moment early on in A Plague Tale: Innocence where the teenage protagonist Amicia is separated from her little brother Hugo. They have no choice but to take two different paths to get to the same destination. Up until this point, Hugo was too scared to move unless he...
Imperator: Rome
Imperator: Rome is a grand strategy game developed and published by Paradox, and released in full on the 25th of April. Like its name implies, the aim of the game is to run your empire and expand it through diplomacy, trade, and warfare. You can choose to play as Rome,...
Anno 1800
Anno 1800 returns the prestigious strategy and city-management series to its incredibly addictive historical roots. After two mediocre Sci-Fi iterations, Blue Byte’s newest edition is set within the romanticised 19th Century Industrial Revolution. Staple city-building, trading, naval mechanics and new tourism, propaganda, and quest features craft what may be the...
