Our own brave Todd Hargosh straps into his custom Ghostbusters SUV and takes on the Blizzard Mountain expansion for Forza Horizon 3 on his Xbox One. Can he survive the blizzard of 2016, much less place, in a race between console and PC drivers?
Demolish & Build 2017 challenges players to do one thing: destroy everything in sight. Forget the build part of this one, the main focus is realistically destroying a variety of buildings in a surprisingly laid-back, highly destructive simulation.
Those of you who feel burned by No Man’s Sky should check out Everspace instead, an open world space game being developed without unnecessary hype, but with lots of cool things to do. We pilot into Everspace a bit early and find a lot to like, and so much more to come.
Reus was a hit over on the PC, and now the unique god-sim has moved over to consoles. The game has a lot of interesting elements and fun 2D graphics. If world-building is your thing, you might want to check it out.
While Voxel art styles are a dime a dozen, The Kindred manages to set itself apart with its sim-survival elements, beautiful world and a high ceiling for growth. It may still be in Steam Early Access, but The Kindred shows exceptional progress and offers a high level of fun even now.
Ascent – The Space Game is an indie MMO where players can explore over 270 billion star systems. So players can literally both boldly go where no one has gone before, and also play constantly for years without ever learning even half of the universe’s many secrets.
This week Billy is continuing his Time Waster adventures with Bus Simulator 16, but is it really something you should spend your time on?
World’s Dawn is a Kickstarter-funded effort to create a fun life simulator game that is styled very much after the Harvest Moon series. So how close does it come, and yea, is it actually any good? We create a character and find out.
In The Westport Independent, players take on the role of a newspaper editor in a fictional country around 1949. A war has just ended. The government wants to censor newspapers. Rebels are blowing stuff up. Reporters are divided. Can one editor keep it together?
We deploy into space to take a look at the punishingly difficult Tharsis game from developer Choice Provisions, where survival all comes down to the roll of a D6. How long did we survive in the cold, dark of space, with only our dice to keep us company?
