Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’

Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin to wind up your punch, you go from a highly anticipated indie to the #1 best selling game on Steam, bypassing the likes of Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon? Mega Crit, developers of Slay the Spire…

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CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher’s success: ‘Maybe Kitfox wouldn’t be as successful if I didn’t know how to alternate between science trees and army defences’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” Tanya X. Short, CEO of Kitfox games, cannot recall the…

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This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat ’em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update

We’re in a golden era for the CRPG. Disco Elysium set a new standard for narrative driven roleplaying in 2019, while Baldur’s Gate 3 did the same with pretty much everything in 2023. Even the ‘B-tier’of modern CRPGs like Rogue Trader and Solasta: Crown of the Magister offer rock-solid roleplaying adventures of dizzying depth. The…

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Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason

Cooperative physics-platformer Human Fall Flat is one of my favourite back-burner games, something I check in on once every six months or so to see what nonsense has been added, eagerly play through the new levels, and then memory hole the thing until Christmas or whenever. Given how No Brakes Games’ goofy wobble ’em up…

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The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long time. And, well, a lot has changed in the years since it launched as a solid but somewhat unremarkable survival game. Over the course of hundreds of updates, RocketWerkz has added a fully explorable open world,…

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