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ReviewsPCMagic: The Gathering Arena: The Kotaku Review
Magic: The Gathering Arena isn’t the same as ripping open Magic packs with your childhood best friend on a sunny park bench, but it is the next best thing. The digital card game, available on PC, smooths down the coarser aspects of paper Magic games, making for an easy landing pad for newbies and a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 26, 2019 -
ReviewsPCI Love You, Colonel Sanders!: The Kotaku Review
The difference between I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator and the dating sims I’ve enjoyed is sincerity. That’s hard to come by in a game that’s actually about making its players fall in love with the idea of buying fried chicken. Dating games and visual novels in general often find…
By Gita Jackson Published September 24, 2019 -
ReviewsPCEliza: The Kotaku Review
Eliza, a visual novel from development studio Zachtronics, revolves around a therapy service of the same name, powered by machine learning. At one point in the story, an old woman who visits Eliza—mostly to have someone to talk to—unknowingly signs over access to her emails and text messages. As Eliza’s proxy, Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey, I read her…
By Gita Jackson Published August 29, 2019 -
ReviewsPCTotal War: Three Kingdoms: The Kotaku Review
Ever since Rome 2’s disappointing release back in 2013, it feels like the Total War series has been lost and in search of something. From Attila and Thrones of Britannia’s tinkering to the Warhammer games’ explosion of personality there has been wild experimentation between titles. Three Kingdoms is the culmination of that adventure. The release…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019 -
ReviewsPCDwarf Fortress: The Kotaku Review
Dwarf Fortress is a brilliant game, but it will make you work to find that out. It’s a game that loves its complicated world and the adventures it offers players, even when the odds of winning are slim. It rewards you for putting yourself in a sticky situation—a goblin siege, a forgotten beast with deadly…
By Gita Jackson Published May 8, 2019 -
ReviewsPCImperator: Rome: The Kotaku Review
I’ve been wondering for years what a Paradox grand strategy game would look like if it was designed for regular humans, and in Imperator: Rome I have my answer. As long-time readers may know, I’m a big fan of Paradox’s grand strategy games, Crusader Kings II and Hearts of Iron IV especially. They’ve got a…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2019 -
ReviewsPCCivilization VI: Gathering Storm: The Kotaku Review
For Civ fans, the future has been set in stone since October 2016: no matter how good Civilization VI was at launch, it wouldn’t be done until it had gotten two expansions. Well, now it’s got them. Building on the contentintroduced in 2018’s Rise & Fall, and adding a whole raft of its own new…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2019 -
ReviewsPCWorld Of Warcraft Battle For Azeroth: The Kotaku Review
“Well, it’s more of the same” is generally my answer when people ask me how I’m enjoying World of Warcraft’s seventh paid expansion, Battle for Azeroth. Then I spend several minutes explaining why that’s not a bad thing. Blizzard has spent the past six years transforming World of Warcraft from a tired massively multiplayer online…
By Mike Fahey Published September 4, 2018 -
ReviewsPC
Spy Party: The Kotaku Early Access Review
Someone is a spy and you need to take them out. There’s only thirty seconds left for them to bug the ambassador and complete their mission. You see movement out of the corner of your eye? Is that balding man reaching towards the ambassador’s pocket? You take the shot and the party goers scream. Over…
Gita Jackson & Heather Alexandra Published April 20, 2018 -
ReviewsPCInto The Breach: The Kotaku Review
Into the Breach is a game about the accumulation of small decisions, good or bad. It’s a game that never lets you forget your past runs, especially your failures. Into the Breach is made by Subset Games, the studio behind 2012’s FTL, the hit strategy game that charged players with keeping a spaceship in flight…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 27, 2018 -
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Civilization VI: Rise and Fall: The Kotaku Review
It took Civilization V two full expansions to become the classic it’s regarded as today. Civilization VI is halfway there. While my 2016 review of Civ VI was glowing, it did come with the historical reservation that Civilization games are so big, and their design process so ever-evolving, that they’re rarely a masterpiece from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2018 -
ReviewsPCCrusader Kings II: The Kotaku Re-Review
Looking back at one of the greatest PC strategy games of all time
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2017 -
ReviewsPC
Total War: Warhammer 2: The Kotaku Review
Let’s keep this simple: Total War: Warhammer was a very good strategy game. Total War: Warhammer 2 is better. The game continues Creative Assembly’s tradition of building on the release of a new Total War with a sort of semi-sequel. In the past we’ve seen a bunch of these, from Napoleon (following Empire) to Attila…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2017
