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Sniper Elite 5 Review – The Best One Yet
Sniper Elite games have evolved pretty neatly since the series’ inception in 2005. The most significant upgrade came with Sniper Elite 4 (2017), turning the…
Evil Dead: The Game Review – If Chins Could Kill
Putting the failures like Evolve aside, most asymmetric multiplayer action games present a long-term success story. Years after release, Left4Dead 1 and 2, Dead by…
Galactic Civilizations 4 Review – The Old Guard
For most people familiar with 4X space games, Galactic Civilizations 4 represents a trek back in time. Stardock entertainment developed the core idea in 2006….
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters Review – Feels Wrong
Eighty percent of the Warhammer 40K product reviews begin with some cringy variation of „In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only…
Dune: Spice Wars Preview – It Must Flow
One of the best Sci-fi novels of the last century inspired one of the best strategy games in the early nineties and probably the single…
Kaiju Wars Review – Movie Monsters
If your mental well-being suffers from the absence of neon-punk retro tactical extravaganza involving giant movie monsters, Kaiju Wars is here to help. Non-trademarked equivalents…
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Review – One with the Force
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the biggest and arguably the best title in the thirty-plus-year history of Lego games. It represents significant progress…
Weird West Review – Ghost Riders in the Sky
Fantasy in the wild western frontier, as a pulp-cultural concept, has existed in some form since the late thirties. Numerous old comics, novels, TV series,…
The House of the Dead: Remake Review – Pulp Fiction
Picking up The House of the Dead: Remake, I allowed myself a short trip down the memory lane. Together with Resident Evil, The House of…
Kirby and the Forgotten Land Review – Now in Glorious 3D!
A sign of the shitty times we live in is that even Kirby went post-apocalyptic. That’s right, cute pink blob from countless games dating back…
Ghostwire: Tokyo Review – Black Hole Sun
In the post-war, apocalypse-themed Japanese fiction, Tokyo, the New York of the east, usually ends up obliterated by towering Kaiju. In Ghostwire: Tokyo, however, the…
Tunic Review – Fox’s Awakening
The best way to describe Tunic would be a cute mixture of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and bits and pieces borrowed from the…
Triangle Strategy Review – A Song of Iron and Salt
Designed around a tactical module similar to Final Fantasy Tactics and visually sculpted to be almost identical to Octopath Traveller, Triangle Strategy sounds like an…
Shadow Warrior 3 Review – Offbeat Goofball
The idiot shooter must be recognized as a subcultural phenomenon to succeed commercially. Shadow Warrior games never quite managed to get there, but not for…
Total War: Warhammer III Review – Chaos Undivided
I wouldn’t bet any serious money on it, but for a long time now, I had a feeling that Games Workshop beats Marvel in the…
Horizon Forbidden West Review – Solid Sequel
Almost a year and a half in the new console generation life cycle, Sony is confidently leading the platform exclusives race. Microsoft could only dream…
Sifu Review – The Way of the Dragon
In the Cantonese dialect, “Sifu “has the combined meaning of teacher, master, and father in the context of martial arts training. The most prominent Sifu…
Expeditions: Rome Review – Tempus Fugit
To a casual observer, my arrogant roman asshole “hero “is not worthy of any kind of justice or redemption. He’s bullish and always picks a…
Rainbow Six Extraction Review – Protomolecule Peril
In a world of tactical acronyms, REACT (Rainbow Exogenous Analysis and Containment Team) is really pushing it. That “E “feels forced, really. Why use “exogenous…
Monster Hunter Rise PC Review – World of Difference
Simpler than Monster Hunter: World and technically impressive for a handheld console exclusive, Monster Hunter Rise was a major hit on Nintendo Switch. It seems…