Jonathan Bolding
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Latest articles by Jonathan Bolding
New Apex Legends trailer gets us another look at Alter, Season 21, and the return of solos
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News New Legend Alter is the first overtly villainous character since 2020.
Robot roguelike Cogmind outlines three free expansions for its ultra-customizable scrapbots
By Jonathan Bolding published
News More ways to be a scrappy little bug inside the system continually reinventing itself.
Check out the trailer for this big, cooperative Halo campaign mod
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The Halo: RedShift campaign will work for Halo: Master Chief Collection.
Here's the launch trailer for V Rising's 1.0 version, releasing very soon
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News Turn into a giant spider and murder people.
All four modern Fallout games catapulted into the most-played games on Steam Deck this past month
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News Gee, we wonder why?
Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other
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News Except for gnomes and dwarves and halflings.
Check out Oddsparks, which is something like Pikmin by way of Factorio
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Make little wooden friends, then put them to work making even more wooden friends.
Get your friends for some horrific tomb raiding in Forewarned, which just hit 1.0
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Mummies, horrors, and snares. Oh my.
Toss, perch on, and leap from your magic staff in the demo for action platformer Akatori
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News Akatori: Chapter One is one of those free prologue demos that are so popular now.
Brotato has a DLC and a free, 4-player local co-op expansion incoming
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News Locked and Bro-ded.
Metroidvania around a microscopic world to save dogs everywhere in BioGun
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News "Will you be the vaccine to save dog-kind from extinction?"
Here's a chaos co-op take on getting boxes off the shipping floor and out the factory door
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News Read, Steady, Ship! is about moving packages with belts, robot arms, machines, and more.
Slash and shoot your way through a procedural bug hole in Ants Took My Eyeball
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News Of all the things to take...
Here's a free demo for upcoming survival crafting, monster-battling, town-builder Tinkerlands
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue to the upcoming larger game.
Check out this town builder with a deep simulation of ecology and climate
By Jonathan Bolding published
News In Of Life and Land both your villagers and the local animals need water, food, and more to survive.
Town-building survival RPG Bellwright hits Early Access this month
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Build a town and overthrow an evil monarch in a low fantasy world.
One of the best-reviewed survival crafting games on Steam has hit 1.0 and added 10-person cooperative play
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The Planet Crafter sits at an impressive 96% positive review rating—with over 26,000 reviews.
Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons
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News You'll be able to play a wholistic vanilla version of Deep Rock or time travel to game modes past.
Check out this indie fusion of Terraria and Satisfactory
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Autoforge is a 2D automation adventure with some neat stuff going on inside.
The fantasy sequel to Fights in Tight Spaces is just called Knights in Tight Spaces, and it has a demo out now
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Close-quarters tactical card brawling is looking better than ever.
A map revamp means your giant factory-cities in Captain of Industry are going to look better than ever
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Update 2 also brings conveyor lifts, stackable balancers, and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Mining and base-building sandbox Hydroneer has a sprawling new expansion of volcanos and glaciers
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The new island is six times as large as the original one.