No Way to Die

When PlayStation Now first launched, in 2015, it was more confusing than enticing. On paper, it was meant to be a…

My time with Baldur’s Gate 3 can best be summed up by what it made me do: After spending all of Saturday playing it,…

Hades doesn’t really start until you beat it. In many roguelikes, you’re encouraged to play through the game ad…

Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the…

Spelunky 2 can be a violent experience. While searching for the main character’s parents is its ostensible goal, you…

In most games, roadside villages are respites—hard-earned rests for weary travelers. In Pendragon, a…

Roguelike is a dirty gaming word to me: I can’t think of a genre of game that appeals to me less than one in which…

Remember how Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre developer Supergiant promised that its Greek mythology-themed roguelike…

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

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