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
Enlisted, the 100-person shooter where everyone has a squad of NPCs, is coming to Steam
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News Enlisted is a free to play WW2 FPS published War Thunder makers Gaijin.
Trap-dodging first person runner Phantom Abyss has escaped early access
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News Once someone beats a temple nobody can ever play it again.
Twin stick crafter-shooter-basebuilder The Riftbreaker aims for a very ambitious 2024 roadmap
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News The Riftbreaker wasn't built with co-op in mind, but they're adding it anyway.
Enjoy the punchy, colorful combat of action platformer Anomaly Agent
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News The combat and cyberpunk setting have fans drawing comparisons to Katana Zero.
Dominions 6 is the only strategy game where I can lead an army of dog men to victory with a squeaky toy god
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Wargamer's Wargame Dominions is still the most fun you can have pretending to be an all-conquering god.
I want more simple, colorful strategy games like Rising Lords that people will actually play with me
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War With Friends Not every strategy game has to be gloomy and impenetrable.
Get a retired cop back in service for her only unsolved case in this point-and-click detective adventure
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News "With each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying."
Stack cards to captain a desperate train in this frozen, apocalyptic, and totally free roguelite demo
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News Frostrain will probably remind you of that one movie. You know the one.
Skill-rich action RPG Last Epoch will finally release in February
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News Fifteen classes means lots and lots of skills.
Check out the demo for this flashy top-down stealth action game
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News All a bit Hotline Miami meets Doorkickers, innit?
Here's a farm life game but it's about a sect of Chinese fantasy martial artists
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News Use your incredibly potent chi to harvest grain really, really well.
Everyone's favorite post-apocalypse beaver city builder now has horrible, polluted water
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News A huge Timberborn update adds poisonous badwater and a ton of new tech to deal with it.
The latest Baba Is You spinoff injects it with Into the Breach to create Mobile Suit Baba
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News Baba, get in the robot.
Ark: Survival Ascended gets powerful mod tools this month, expansion maps in February and April
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News "Imagine it: crafting not just ARK mods, but entire custom Unreal Engine games."
Diesel-powered city builder New Cycle invites you to rekindle hope after a solar flare wrecks the world
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News The post-solar-flare city builder will have a focus on industrial society, including trains and conveyor assemblies.
Niche strategy sickos rejoice, Dominions 6 will let you cook up bizarre gods shortly
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News The long-running contest to be the god of gods gets its latest entry on January 18.
After Nebraska and Arkansas, American Truck Simulator is going to show me Missouri
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News Gateway Arch? Check. Mississippi river? Check. Trucks? Probably.
Turns out that farming is a pretty compelling addition to the horde survival roguelite formula
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News Try the demo for Pesticide Not Required, which is a bit like Vampire Survivors smashed into Atomicrops.
A new trailer for this psychedelic metroidvania confirms that cosmic womb gardening is very good videogame subject matter
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News The psychedelic world of a plant-bound cosmic uterus that will give birth to an annihilating demon
Factorio 2.0 will let items on conveyor belts stack, something long thought impossible
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News Seriously, they said it couldn't be done for a decade.
Spinoff of cute little Factory Town turns it into a sprawling spreadsheet exercise
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News It's called Factory Town Idle, but there's always something to do.
Drive little tanks and mechs in Sand Land, based on a world by the Dragon Ball creator
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News Akira Toriyama's famously cute cars, tanks, and planes come to life.
FF14 director says there's no firm release date for new expansion because he wants to avoid another Endwalker-style delay
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News Naoki Yoshida had to delay a release once, and that was too many times for him.