Due out in Early Access this spring. Locate them, throw down the gauntlet and carve your path to the Dragon Queen herself. Your progress will be under constant threat from the looming shadow of the ...

Grounded was the first game that started to change that for me, and I have to admit that 2025 has been the first year in almost two decades where I've actively enjoyed playing multiplayer games. Well, ...

Publisher Radical Theory and developer The Breach Studios have announced Westlanders, a Western-themed open-world survival, crafting, building, and management game planned for release across ...

I have a toxic relationship with crafting systems in JRPGs. Even if a game offers a puny system that's hardly worth my time, ...

Astonishingly, it's been nine years since indie survival game Crashlands won our hearts. It blended robust crafting mechanics with the ability to tame pets and a silly sense of humour that earned it a ...

Choices between pickaxe upgrades, ore recipes, and quest objectives get overwhelming in The Forge, but a few tips may be just ...

XCOM's greatest trick is how it manages to make menus and numbers feel like life and death. The explosive gun battles of Cyberpunk 2077? The blow-out heists in GTA 5? No. The tensest experience in PC ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

I love games with crafting and survival elements, but find I just can’t devote 20-40 hours to them anymore. There’s only so much time, you know? Also, some of those are best enjoyed with other people, ...

Crafting is a mechanic that has slowly taken over mainstream gaming, giving developers an easy excuse to compel players into searching for resources and using them to craft new equipment and upgrade ...