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
Farming adventure Tales of Seikyu invites you to entertain monsters in your inn, and become one
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News The cooperative farm game
Excellent 4X strategy game Old World drops its fourth DLC, adding a boatload of historical figures and wonders
By Jonathan Bolding published
News 120 new historical figures is a lot. A whole lot.
Steam's Best of 2023 highlights top sellers, most played—apparently Steam Deck players really like Half-Life
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News Seriously, Half-Life in the same tier as Baldur's Gate 3, Dave the Diver, and Vampire Survivors.
Hardcore survival shooter Road to Vostok is looking really good after switching engines from Unity to Godot
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News The single player, post-apocalyptic survival game has gotten a lot of buzz.
Delve a hopeless dungeon and die of despair in indie action RPG Into the Necrovale
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News It has a nice little demo.
Grim fantasy retro-RPG Skald: Against the Black Priory has a new demo ahead of a spring 2024 release
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News Prepare to kill a truly remarkable number of fishmen in pursuit of their horrible masters.
Action roguelike Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold more than 2M copies
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News The side-scroller's on sale, 50% off, for a while longer.
Buckle up, the developer of Cruelty Squad is making a game about thoughtcrime cops with mechs
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News It's an "FPS/mecha hybrid europolice sim."
Remake of strange, rare R-Type Tactics 1 & 2 to release in Fall 2024
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News The Unreal Engine 5 remakes had previously been scheduled for 2023.
Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Work for the upcoming expansion is having serious ripples in the base game features.
Obviously there should be a city-builder about penguins, so try the demo for this one
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News I had no idea penguin technology was so advanced.
Curious little turn-based medieval strategy game Rising Lords musters for a January release
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The hex-based strategy draws from board and card games.
My new favorite idler is about these little guys who hit their heads against a rock
By Jonathan Bolding published
News They are called Gnorps and I would die for them.
Escape From Tarkov adds Ground Zero, a dense urban area
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News Here's trailer and patch notes for the 0.14 update.
Tiny Rogues feels like someone stuffed Brotato and Binding of Isaac into a fantasy shell
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News Like a delicious, cheesy baked pasta shell, to be clear.
Dyson Sphere Program's Dark Fog are here to blow up your space factories
By Jonathan Bolding published
Or you can build defenses and not get blown up. That's fine too.
I urge you to playtest Abiotic Factor, a survival game about scientists trapped in a vast underground black site
By Jonathan Bolding published
news Isaac Kleiner, eat your heart out.
Last Train Home review: A rich experiment in history-as-game
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Rail shooter Historical storytelling in a survival RTS set during the Russian Civil War.
Here's one for people who like Vampire Survivors, bullet hell, and when games go all meta and screw with you
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News Picayune Dreams alternates between horde survival and bullet hellish boss fights.
Train people are dang pleased with this line operations sim because it's not too hardcore, nor too simple
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Railroader is swig of truck simulator, a dash of a proper train sim, and a sprinkling of co-op.
People are exceptionally thirsty about this free game where you flirt with the grim reaper on text chat
By Jonathan Bolding published
News A Date with Death is pretty much about flirting via Discord.
Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Yes it has only been two years, yes I was impatient, next question please.
No Man's Sky will rerun all this year's time-limited events in December
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News Also, one of the first ones from back in 2021, which is nice.