Dark and engrossing, Beholder takes a realistic look at life in a totalitarian state. Do you perform your job as assigned, look out for your family first and foremost, or undermine the establishment by any means necessary? Though you may try to balance them all, there’s no way to

Written by Christian DeCoster and Rachel “Rei” Berry For Honor is, in my mind, the ultimate elementary school “who’d win in a fight” game.  With the classic mix of Samurai, Knights, and Vikings all joining in brutal, unflinching melee combat, For Honor is a simple concept done very, very

It seems these days that JRPGs are taking cues from western influences and developing into open-world, cinematic sprawls. This isn’t a bad thing necessarily, but it does make the times when the genre returns to form that much memorable. Titles like Eternal Sonata and Gurumin highlight how a modern

I’ve got 53 hours commanding my team in XCOM 2. I’ve trekked 49 hours with friends in Borderlands 2. The Dragon Age Trilogy soaked me for over 300 hours, and Mass Effect has captured over 200 hours with multiple playthroughs. In all, Steam says I’ve spent 1,

After over 12 years in development, Nioh plays like a compilation of every hack-and-slash RPG since the early 2000s, and while it’s almost tempting to write off most of the gameplay as being derivative of From Software’s recent action RPGs, like Bloodborne and the Dark Souls franchise, there’

I got my first taste of CI Games’ Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 during PAX West 2016 last September. Until then, I’d never played any of the previous entries in the franchise. At the time, I was only able to play a single mission, set in a train yard (which

Two great empires, wrapped in their majesty and history, watch one another with wary eyes from across a neutral expanse known as the Frontier. Within this untouched stretch of stars are planets under their own rule, and some that have never been touched by the mighty powers. Cogs and gears

Five years into development, Dragon Slumber is set to release Arelite Core on Steam this week. We got to talk with the Kevin Giguère about the game and its development, as well as the obstacles and insight in the game being a mostly one-man project. Gaming Trend: Dragon Slumber was