Crying Suns was released without a lot of hype or fanfare, but has been building up a community of loyal players anyway. The game is a sci-fi adventure filled with tactical space battleship combat, role-playing, a mystery to solve and legions of bloodthirsty space pirates.
It’s been 22 years since most of us have set foot in Half-Life’s secret Black Mesa facility. Now the developers at Crowbar Collective have reopened the lab in Black Mesa Xen, a perfectly recreated Half-Life experience loaded up with plenty of modern extras.
It’s rare when we get a brand new type of puzzle title, but that is what developer Skookum Arts has done with their wonderfully fresh game, The Pedestrian. You are tasked with helping the famous stick figure from those ubiquitous informational signs get safely across some challenging environments.
Rebel Cops attempts to take the combat elements of the This is the Police games and make it the main focus of a cops versus bad guys tactical battler. It’s an interesting game, but perhaps a little too stripped down in this era of XCOM and other more polished turn based combat titles.
Metro Exodus took us from the cramped tunnels of the Moscow Metro to an open Russian countryside blasted by nuclear war. Now, The Two Colonels DLC shows us the final fate of two uniquely connected commanding officers.
The Eberron: Rising from the Last War Campaign setting book takes the mysterious and magical land of Eberron and brings it in line with the new fifth edition Dungeon and Dragons rules. This solid supplement also adds some interesting elements like a patron system and a new crafting-based artificer class.
Neo Cab is a cyberpunk narrative adventure game where a feisty cab driver has to drive the electric blue neon streets of the Los Ojos metropolis while trying to both survive in the big city and solve a mystery involving the disappearance of her best friend.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is the sequel to one of the best sniper-based adventure games ever created. This time around, developer CI Games has forgone much of the open-world wandering for tighter, Hitman-like missions packed with plenty of action and challenge.
In this wonderful new boxed set, the crazy comedy of Rick and Morty take on the greatest RPG game ever made, Dungeons and Dragons. This is probably one of the coolest, funniest and most unique takes on the game ever created. And of course, Rick and Morty fans will be in heaven.
There is a lot of change coming to GiN in the New Year, and our editor is taking a few moments away from his eggnog binge to chat about some wonderful GiN friends who are moving on, and our big plans for the future. Oh, and Happy Holidays to you all!
