The Oregon Trail Meets Undiscovered Mexico
Expeditions: Conquistador has planning and strategy like The Oregon Trail, but also hardcore turn-based combat. Combined into one great package, it’s a perfect adventure game.
The Scrolls Foretell a Great Future
Markus “Notch” Persson is best known for creating Minecraft. Not content to rest on his success and laurels we take an early look at his next game and find the same brilliance within.
Defender’s Quest Attacks Tower Defense Genre
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is a new indy tower defense game that mixes in RPG elements to deliver a deep strategic experience with a friendly interface.
The Old Gods Make A New Comeback
The pagans are coming! Crusader Kings II is a brutal strategy game on its own, where just surviving is a high honor. Add in the rampaging pagans, or become them, and The Old Gods DLC becomes epic.
Old School Wargaming Roars Back
Machines At War 3 is a modern game that harkens back to a simpler time in real-time wargaming, when skill, strategy and storytelling went hand in hand. It’s time to reenlist.
A Vampire Game To Sink Your Teeth Into
It turns out that The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is, well, kind of incredible. While obvious comparisons to Diablo-type games will be made, this one stands alone with great dialog and smooth combat.
A Russian Revolution
Metro: Last Light is the sequel to the excellent Metro 2033. Last Light offers great combat, lots of spooky post-nuclear war world to explore, and a surprisingly detailed plot that will keep you guessing.
The Last Is First In Adventure
The Last of Us could very well be the best adventure game ever created, with compelling characters, a great story, brutal combat and a creepy horror survival theme set in an apocalyptic world.
A Tale of Too Many Cities
Now that the much-publicized problems of the launch have died down, we take a few moments to actually study what the latest SimCity has to offer, street by street, and find a brilliant but flawed metropolis underneath.
PC RPG Conquers New Realms
Porting the PC-based Gothic RPG series over to consoles in the form of Arcania: The Complete Tale brings with it a host of advantages and flaws, but overall offers a fine adventure experience.