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 a soulslike with the flashy, colorful outfits and neat folklore of renaissance Italy
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News It's important to be well-dressed while a giant monster stomps you over and over.
Free sequel Please, Touch the Artwork 2 is out today, inviting you to poke a pile of paintings for hidden things
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News Help a skeletal painter find his way home.
SimCity 4 modders are cracking its deepest recesses in ever greater numbers, enabling extensive new changes
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News Mods to the DLL files are revolutionizing the wildly popular old city builder.
Be a fantasy god smashing an army of terraforming robots in Gods Against Machines
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News It's an action RTS that plays like a modern roguelite.
Acid Planet looks like a cross of Vampire Survivors and They Are Billions
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News Lure in those kaiju and hunt them like big game.
SpellRogue is a dice-tossing take on the Slay the Spire format
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News Toss dice to fuel your carefully constructed deck of cards.
There's a proper, official Dungeons & Dragons live stage show now
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News Something between a play and interactive theater.
Helldivers 2 player counts more than double launch weekend, 300K and climbing, as the co-op shooter goes viral
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News Sweet liberty, the success!
Fans of Stacklands and Cultist Simulator should check out this cute little game about witch covens
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News The slow-growing real time card genre gets another entry.
Slime Rancher 2 adds a pile of new gadgets to play with in a chunky new update
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News Treat your slimes to a brand new pennant, carousel, or statue.
Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two
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News The peak concurrent players Steam has doubled God of War.
This game wants to blend survival and tycoon games in a race to build a moon colony
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News Moonshot is in development for a 2025 release.
Narrative open-world survival in The Planet Crafter will have a co-op mode and a 1.0 release this year
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News This is the one we previously called "Subnautica on Mars."
Lethal Company dev thinking updates should be 'bigger and less frequent' and 'like I broke into an alien zoo'
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News Lethal Company is on sale, and its developer is thinking about aiming for larger updates in the future.
I played 50 Steam Next Fest demos this week, and these are my top 5
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wishlisted From deckbuilders to city builders, these are the demos you shouldn't miss.
This strategy game's historical ignorance made me so mad I became a post-apocalyptic dictator out of spite
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Wrong lesson New Cycle disregards opportunities to creatively mix storytelling and city building and opts for generic strategy instead.
Resident Evil 4 remake sold well over 6M copies, comprehensive gold edition coming this week
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News The gold edition will include both the Separate Ways DLC and the deluxe Extra DLC.
Hellcard brings its chunky co-op deckbuilding to a full release
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News Mow down hordes of enemies back-to-back with your party.
Survive a harsh world in the demo for a city builder that looks like a Moebius drawing come to life
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News Synergy is about making not just sustainable economies, but healthy communities.
Moonbreaker, the digital miniatures game from Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds, has released
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News If too many people buy this game we're going to need to hire some moon reassemblers.
Gloomwood developers exploring new advances in rat behavioral AI
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News Advanced cheese seeking techniques are in the offing for the stealthy immersive sim.
Satisfactory will have its 1.0 release this year
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News I think we're all hoping for a satisfying conclusion.
Visual program some adorable robots to heat up a frozen world in Craftomation 101
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News Check out the demo, which is out now ahead of a February release.