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Enough with the post-apocalypse. What about the pre-apocalypse?
A lot of games are about saving the world, but Eco might actually do it.
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The striking darkness and illusory light of White Night
A good mashup, but not quite a great one.
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Volcano survival isn’t a game. Except when it is
A game that blows, in a good way.
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Sea of Solitude finds beauty in depicting loneliness
“The vision, in a nutshell, is to let players experience different types of loneliness. But all in a playful way,” says Cornelia Geppert of Jo-Mei Games. And that’s about all I could get out of her at this point. It’s not a lot, but it hardly matters once you’ve seen what Geppert and her team have d
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MINIDAYZ lets you play DayZ without the cruelty of other players
I’d been playing DayZ for no longer than two hours when it first happened to me. Jogging tired and hungry across knackered pastures, I heard a gunshot ring out into the air; an enormous clap that could only have come from a deadly long-range rifle. I dived into the xeric dirt and stayed still. After
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Starve to death in the Canadian wilds next month with The Long Dark
The Long Dark is set to hit Steam Early Access on September 22. The game is being developed by Hinterland Games, which founder and creative director Raphael Van Lierop told us is situated in “an old mining town nestled at the foot of a mountain range” in Cumberland, British Columbia. The cold creeps
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The dwarves can dream now in Dwarf Fortress
Dying by megabeasts, and by feelings.
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The Long Dark’s new trailer is ice cold
Back in February, we showed you some gorgeous screenshots and officially labeled The Long Dark “a game we give a shit about.” Now, that may not sound like a lot. But when we say we “give a shit” about a game, what we mean is “we think this game has the potential to be something great and meaningful.
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Ashen is the sprawling, low-poly Dark Souls of our nightmares
“Whatever you choose, the outcome is likely to be part success and part tragedy.”
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The Forest to scare the living crap out of us May 30
We already knew The Forest looked freakishly terrifying. But now we know a date: it hits Early Access on May 30. Sure, the latest trailer for the survivalist (think Rust) survival horror game starts out innocently. It seems like the perfect getting-back-to-nature simulator, as you watch the characte
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This War of Mine presents war as it really is: hell
The impression one gets from a steady diet of FPS’s is that everyone is a hero, which is ridiculous and borders on propaganda and doesn’t take into account the far greater number of civilians whose lives become sleepless nightmares. Well, until now. The point of This War of Mine, a horrific, surviv
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Echo of the Wilds zeroes in on the mind-body tension
Crafting gets arduous.