I’ve always been obsessed with rolling and re-rolling RPG characters, and Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a beautiful catastrophe for me, letting me channel that energy into too many Tactician and Honour runs, as well as our guide to the best builds in the game. With Patch 8’s 12 new subclasses on the way, I’ve…
Old School Gamer chats with RailGods of Hysterra Troglobytes’ Art Director Lucian Iurino, who discusses the game’s development, inspiration and goals for the future. About RailGods of Hysterra: RailGods of Hysterra, a cooperative base-building survival action game set in a twisted Lovecraftian dreamscape from developer Troglobytes Games and publisher Digital Vortex Entertainment. Showcasing its titular celestial locomotive, the new trailer delves into…
“Emotion takes up a big part of your life on a daily basis”. Afterlove EP, a ‘mix-tape visual novel’ from the studio behind Coffee Talk, was announced back in 2021, but just one year after its reveal, the team went through something no developer should have to deal with: the sudden and unexpected death of…
The last thing I need in my life is another factory game, if only because allowing any factory game into your life risks it being consumed entirely by its sprawling, hopelessly absorbing logistics puzzle. But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year’s colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I…
I was wooed consistently through the latest trailer for RoadCraft, Saber Interactive’s follow-up to Expeditions: Mudrunner about rebuilding infrastructure across global disaster zones, but it was the phrase “mobile quarry” that convinced me Roadcraft is the one. Quarries, as you may know, are generally static affairs, given they are literally the ground. But RoadCraft’s portable…
They keep on coming. We’re well and truly into 2025 now, and we’ve finally got official word that Switch 2 exists and is coming this year. So that means Switch 1 is dead, right? Wrong! Looking at the schedule, the original Switch has plenty of life in it yet. We’ve rounded up our regular selection…
Hazelight Studios’ upcoming adventure Split Fiction does more than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative action of It Takes Two. A newly released trailer shows that the follow-up to Josef Fares’ wildly successful third-person platformer isn’t a strictly linear affair. According to Fares, who provides the trailer’s voiceover, players will be able to embark…
Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined with the roguelite progression and drip-feed of supernatural drama that Hades redefined the genre with, topped off with a dash of Risk of Rain’s escalating combat challenge and frantic character-building. It sounds too good to be…
What a lovely day! In a market inundated with Metroidvanias, Laika: Aged Through Blood does something remarkable: it actually tries something new. That’s not to say that recent examples haven’t had a good crack at standing out amongst the crowd — Animal Well is certainly testament to that — but many largely stick to the…
At the beginning of every season in Marvel Rivals, each player will get a rank reset and will be demoted around seven tiers (unless they’re already floating around the bottom), meaning they’ll all just get grouped in Bronze 3. This reset has meant that the first half of Season 1 has—what I can only imagine—felt…