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
Here's the demo for an adorable tower defense about green army men battling evil robots
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News The graphics and visual design are definitely above average for the genre.
Automate bases to explore and terraform a huge open world in Eden Crafters
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News The promise of factory building on a voxel world warrants some attention.
Protect the world's last tree from humanity in free tower defense From Ashes, Bloom
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News Be a big blob, stomp people.
There's finally a picross game from legendary makers Jupiter on PC
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News They've been making these since the 90s and they're pretty good at it.
Much-loved board game Dune: Imperium has a digital version now, and it's getting rave responses
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News Yeah, I'm Dune: Dune a great board game adaptation.
Duck Game developer not fazed by potential publisher delisting: "I will never stop updating it as long as my hands and eyes work"
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News Perhaps over-devoted to a couch co-op party shooter, but we like the vigor.
Run your team of fantasy gladiators to absolute dominance in Mortal Glory 2
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News Crew up a bunch of fantasy weirdos and get them killed in pursuit of fame and fortune.
Watch Dogs might just get a movie adaptation after all, because it now has a lead and director
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News This a decade after Ubisoft touted movie interest in the game.
Blast goblins in a cave in the demo for stylish, roguelike shooter Sulfur
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News "Delve deeper, find answers, make it end."
Arrange your items to optimize your fights in asynchronous autobattler Backpack Battles
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News It's now out in Early Access after last year's beta test.
Build a mobile fortress on the back of a walking tree in colony survival game Ark of Charon
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News Four-legged world tree sapling monster. Why not?
Path of Achra is a bite-size, old-school, dungeon-crawling dark fantasy treat
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News Simple controls combine with broken builds in this roguelike RPG.
Old school co-op action RPG Secrets of Grindea releases after a decade of early access
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News Sometimes an indie game just takes 13 years to make.
Spiritfall is an action roguelite with the combat of a platform fighter
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News Some fans describe it as Hades with Super Smash Bros combat.
Collect a stable of weird monsters, and dice, in roguelike Dicefolk
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News Recruit and train a team of mythical beasties.
Toothpaste turrets and deadly pillows keep people out of your house in this fusion of beat 'em up and tower defense
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News You might remember Pull Stay from its very strange trailer a few years back.
Be a cat god in space and build planets by placing tiles in Nekokami
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News There's a free demo to try now.
Here's an indie tactics game inspired by X-Com, Rebelstar, and Laser Squad
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Archrebel Tactics is calling on some of the biggest names in classic tactics for inspiration.
Dwarf Fortress adventure mode preview shows off menu for grabbing enemies by their teeth
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News Please never change, Dwarf Fortress.
Here's a blocky voxel RTS from the studio that made the Command & Conquer remasters
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News Petroglyph was the studio behind Star Wars: Empire at War, Universe at War, and Grey Goo.
Etsy is already overrun with bootleg Helldivers 2 merch
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News It's bad behavior that's bad for the gaming ecosystem.
In true D&D fashion, you can bypass Baldur's Gate 3's most notorious dungeon with a single, simple spell
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News Just politely Knock to be let in.
Civilization 6 is free to try, 90% off to buy this weekend
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News That's most of the percents off that something can be.
Age of Mythology: Retold's developers are going 'way beyond' the definitive editions for Age of Empires: 'We want to build the game in your head'
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news Revamped graphics, changes to unit numbers and mythological powers are set to make Retold a huge update to the 2002 RTS.