Valheim: Masterful Combat and Survival With a Viking Twist
It’s crafting and exploration week at GiN with another spotlight on a survival game. Today we are looking at Valheim, one of the most exciting open world survival titles where you can craft and build almost anything from a Viking ring fortress to a Taco Bell.
Student Project Becomes Capable Survival Game in Arid
Looking for a new challenge in survival games? Arid began life as a student project, but is now available for free on Steam. The game challenges players to explore, craft and survive for as long as they can in one of the hottest and most inhospitable places on planet Earth.
Condemned To A Good Time With Curse of The Dead Gods
Roguelikes are having a moment, and Curse of the Dead Gods is yet another entry into a genre that’s struck an incredibly rich vein of form lately. Curse of the Dead Gods is among the best so far, so you should definitely check this one out.
Slipways Offers 60-Minute Deep Strategy Challenges
Slipways is an ingenious new strategy game that tosses out most of the micromanagement aspects of building and running a galactic empire while keeping the challenge level high. Most games can be played in under an hour.
Thronebreaker Brings Card-based RPG Action to Mobile
Our Modern Gamer columnist has been hooked on all things Witcher these days, and that includes a somewhat obscure offering from CD Projekt Red called Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales that marries GWENT and The Witcher 3.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Explodes onto Steam
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is an exciting first and third person mech combat shooter where you and up to three friends control a lance of stompy mechs doing whatever dirty work the great houses want, and earning reputation and piles of C-bills in the process.
Shakedowners Series Puts its Unique Mark on Sci-Fi
Shakedowners is an amusing story of a bottom of the barrel captain whose only real talent is breaking new starships so that the engineers can fix them before they see active service. But when the pride of the Federation Fleet is attacked on one of his shakedown cruises, things change in a hurry.
Cute 3D Pen Brings Art and Design to Everyone
The myFirst 3DPen essentially functions a lot like a glue gun, only it doesn’t get nearly as hot because instead of activating glue, it’s melting plastic filament so they can be drawn into colorful patterns. This is a clever way to make the art of 3D design accessible to almost anyone, even very young kids just starting out as budding artists.
Alchemy Stars Conquers Mobile RPGs
Alchemy Stars is a refreshingly different RPG for iOS and Android platforms that actually somehow breaks the mold by offering some amazingly unique gameplay. This one gets a major recommendation from our Modern Gamer reviewer.
Paradise Lost’s Promise Mired By Flaws
Paradise Lost had a lot of potential, giving us a deep mystery set inside a secret bunker left over from an alternate history where World War II ended in nuclear holocaust. Unfortunately, many bugs and flaws make it almost unplayable.