PC Reviews

Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons have had a tremendous influence on their digital counterparts, from the creatures that inhabit their worlds down to the rules of the game and the words we use to describe our characters. Translating those RPGs directly into video games can be extraordinarily tricky, though,

It’s hard to know where best to start with a game like Battlefield V. While its direct competitors are slimming down and scaling back, the team at DICE is going bigger, broader, and somehow better than ever. It’s probably best to start where the developers did – at the

Call of Cthulhu is a slow burn horror/detective RPG. There isn’t a horde of monsters or jumpscares interrupting the gameplay every couple minutes. No, instead it relies on atmosphere and intrigue to form a compelling narrative that had me mesmerized like the call of a particular cosmic horror.

At E3 a few years ago, the CD Projekt Red team showed off a version of Gwent: The Witcher Card game, which included a single-player mode that featured a story, cutscenes, etc. That mode never made it into what became a highly successful multiplayer-focused Gwent game, so when I first

The Conjuring House is clearly inspired by the great horror games that came before. It borrows the run and hide style popularized by Outlast and Amnesia along with the mansion setting Resident Evil is known for. Unfortunately, The Conjuring House fails to take these elements and make them its own.

Virtual reality is tailor made for horror games, but all too often they rely on creepy things and cheap jump scares to achieve their heart-thumping results. What they lack, however, is tension, and Transference has it in spades. Transference is the collaboration between Ubisoft Montreal and SpectreVision, a film production

I review several hundred games a year, most of them about shooting people in the face, stabbing them with spears, or otherwise violently putting pointy things into their softer parts. It’s because of this that I need titles like Megaquarium in my life. It’s a quiet little simulation

A lot of supposed “story” games come off as lazy and uninspired to me, largely because a bulk of them in my experience are text heavy and come off as glorified books. I’ve got no issue with a story focused gaming experience as long as it takes advantage of