We Who Are About To Die’s new update has finally given me the excuse I need to cowardly lob some rocks at the heads of seasoned opponents

Well, no more. Throw me to the lions! Oh, this one hasa Steam demoin its mouth. The first thing that surprised me here was how action-y the combat is. I immediately get the feeling Im very bad at it. Im the best gladiator! you could also train, heal, and promote yourself for more fame bonuses to unlock better equipment.

September 17, 2024 · 1 min · 59 words · Tamara Grimes

Wordle hints and answer (#1186): How to solve the Tuesday September 17 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 17? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments!...

September 17, 2024 · 2 min · 424 words · Christina Baker

In handsome metroidvania Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists you are a dryad fighting the corpse of capitalism

I have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes Alruna And The Necro-Industrialistsopens with paired quotes from T.S. Here’s a trailer. The earth is sucked dry. There is only The Sprawl. But are they the real enemy? Or do the skeletons suffer just as much as the dryads under the domination of the Necro-Industrialists? Dead men yearn for Heaven. But the dead can only dig… I’ve just giventhe Steam demoa shot, and this is a very assured production....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 170 words · Barry Morgan

Mars First Logistics has turned into a Martian railway builder, with some very pretty, 100% authentic clouds

If monorails strike you as frivolous, don’t worry.It’s more of a Shelbyville idea. I am predicting an eventual pivot into either themepark management or factory simulator. Heres a trailer for the new update. For example you might be asked to build a water pipe between a reservoir and a habitat. You are, however, free to build structures wherever you like. Transmitters are now also structures that you better build yourself instead of discovering, he continues....

September 16, 2024 · 2 min · 224 words · Robert Dixon

Menace’s turn-based battles are the galaxy’s deadliest teambuilding exercises

Except, Menace goes far heavier on both detail and scale than that pared-back spinoff did. In my mind, anyway. 50% is a rubbish chance, but orange is fine, right? Id take a punt on orange. Ever-present in these battles are the barks and bantz of your (fully voiced) recruits. Theres loads of canned dialogue, obviously, but its the interactions between these units that sounds most interesting. The price of that momentary valuation of black comedy over intelligent positioning?...

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 96 words · Sandra Gutierrez

Neon knight flier Hyperbeat looks like a stylish mash-up of Rez and Osu!

Anyway yeah, it looks rad. I’m sure rhythm game fanatics will say Hyperbeat looks like many other rhythm games. There isn’t much else to go on right now, sadly. Workshop support is a fantastic touch - these sorts of games thrive off people’s creations. Oh and difficulty and accessibility options mean it won’t be impenetrable, hopefully. There’s no release date on this one, but it’s due out sometime this year....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 81 words · Laura Dalton

Resident Evil and No More Heroes creators join long list of devs who think Metacritic is bad for game dev

Speaking toGI.bizrecently alongside survivalhorrorgenre maker-upper Shinji Mikami, Suda expressed his frustrations with the review aggregator platforms cultural cache. “Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores. The bigger companies might not want to deal with that kind of thing. That might not be the main reason, but that’s certainly one reason why. Everyone cares too much about the numbers. “More unique games don’t really have the same marketability....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 110 words · Monica Robinson

Satisfactory 1.0 review: yes, it is

Frack the planet I am lost in my own factory. Twenty hours ago I placed my first manufacturer somewhere around here. Im building supercomputers now, and the many manufacturers that make those are hungry. It is mesmerising and it is fearsome, and afterfive years of early accessits finally complete. Out to sea lies my nuclear power plant, tucked away far enough that the radiation cant touch me. The main event is doing maths....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 208 words · Nicole Thomas

This action roguelite’s demo has more stuff in it than some full games, plus some very good goblins

Bountifully they await on Steam, like a friendly worker offering you toothpick-skewered cheese chunks at your local supermarket. And, oh, would you look at that: this cheese has some guns in it. Deeply customisable guns!SULFURis a shooty roguelike with some excellent goblins and a deepRPGequipment system. The core of this everlasting cheese-stopper is dungeon crawling and working on your build. I love violence, but I need context! hey, calm yourself....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 173 words · Dana Taylor

Tiny Glade review: lovely tools and procedural flourishes make building castles a treat

Less is moor Tiny Gladehas been a constant presence on TikTok for the last year or so. It’s never far away. It feels like we’ve been here before - sort of. Tiny Glade’s biggest difference is that it’s 3D. All of this brings me to a second big difference, and perhaps the most important one. Clip two panes of glass close together, and the game may turn them into a big arched window....

September 16, 2024 · 2 min · 273 words · Randall Chase

Trust is a vampire FPS with immersive sim elements from the Forgive Me Father devs

Deus Ex Dracula In theory, vampires and immersive sims go together as naturally as bats and caves. Despite this, actual vampire-themed immersive sims are rare. My list starts withVampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines… and sort of ends there. The much-delayed Bloodlines 2 was recentlydowngradedfrom immersive sim toRPGby new developers The Chinese Room. Arkane Lyon’sBladeadaptation seems promising, but it’s a ways off. Anyway, here’s the trailer. You play a recently awoken elder vampire, who is trying to survive in a quarantined Central European city....

September 16, 2024 · 1 min · 171 words · Kenneth Russell

Wordle hints and answer (#1185): How to solve the Monday September 16 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments!...

September 16, 2024 · 3 min · 450 words · Melissa Potter

What's on your bookshelf?: Firaxis, Hindsight, and Life Is Strange writer Emma Kidwell

This week, its writer onMarvels Midnight Suns,Hindsight,Life is StrangeSeason 2 andmore, Emma Kidwell! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? Another Sunday, another spectacular failure by our guest to name every book ever written. It is, as they say, how the book-y crumbles. Im really sorry I just wrote that.

September 15, 2024 · 1 min · 52 words · Stephen Alvarado