2025

Fair play to Norland’s developer Long Jaunt, it doesn’t do patches by halves. Back in March, the medieval colony sim’s “damn big update” overhauled several of its most fundamental systems, stripping out character needs, reworking crime and punishment, and radically changing how your colony’s horny lords give orders to peasants. Now, Long Jaunt is rolling…

Late last month, Two Point Studios unveiled the first paid DLC for its excellent management sim Two Point Museum. Titled Fantasy Finds, it adds a dungeon’s worth of treasures to discover and display. While impressed by the expansion’s showing, I questioned the apparent lack of a new museum scenario for the campaign, which would have…

Witchfire has been in development for nearly a decade at this point. But the “new” FPS from Painkiller creator Adrian Chmielarz has been gathering pace since its arrived on Steam in early access last year (following an initial launch on the Epic Store in 2023). The RPG-infused shooter has received two chunky content patches in…

System Shock 2 is a PC gaming classic, but much like its spiritual successor Bioshock, its final act isn’t as strong as the rest of the game. Its final level—The Body of the Many—swaps out the twisting spaceship corridors of the game’s earlier levels for what is basically a giant intestine, with you fighting through…

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Underneath the piles of free-to-play monetization, daily login rewards, and horny cosmetics there’s a hint of an enjoyable hero shooter in Mecha Break. For a certain type of mech obsessive, it’s a paradise of steel, sparks, lasers, and giant swords. Every time you enter a match you watch your pilot buckle up, achieve full synchronization,…