Latest articles by Dominic Tarason
I've played more than 100 indie games this year—these are my top 3 hidden gems
Treasure trove The cream of a bumper crop: 2023's greatest indie underdogs.
There's still hope for the future of this 42-year-old RPG series, despite its brush with NFTs
Eternal The iconic Wizardry games may still return in a more faithful form.
Lethal Company's co-op horror comedy is like an immediately more chaotic and deadly Phasmophobia
oh no oh no Lethal Company delivers slapstick on demand.
The Talos Principle 2 review: A satisfying and beautiful puzzle game
Big Ideas The Talos Principle 2 brings fresh human context to its beautiful world of puzzles.
14 console games that should've been on PC instead
Deplatformed When is a PC game not a PC game? When it’s one of these misplaced gems.
Railgrade looks like a sandbox train builder, but it's actually the rare sim with missions that keep me on track
Training Sim Railgrade's mission-based train sim may leave sandbox fans feeling railroaded, but I'm onboard.
Excellent stealth game Spirited Thief was so sneaky it came out on Steam and nobody noticed
Ghosted Spirited Thief makes you feel like a heist-planning master criminal.
El Paso, Elsewhere's mashup of Max Payne and breakup ballad shouldn't work, and yet it's one of the boldest, freshest games of the year
High Stakes El Paso, Elsewhere elevates retro gunplay with bleeding-edge writing and music.
Wargroove 2 review: Bigger, better, more refined than its predecessor
Groovy A familiar but filling all-you-can-eat strategy buffet
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles review: New pair of shoes
No Whammies Astrea raises the deckbuilder stakes with gambling tension.
A seemingly innocent puzzle game is hiding what might be the most subversive, fourth-wall-breaking adventure since Undertale
Stranger days Void Stranger is a boundless puzzle-box in Game Boy disguise.
Retro FPS Amid Evil borrowed a famous anime attack to create one of the most satisfying videogame punches ever
Back in Black The follow-up to one of 2019's best FPSes is a punchy, focused shot of fantasy boomer shooter fun.
Homeworld 3's roguelike-inspired War Games mode is perfect for strategists in a hurry
Space race Time for a change of pace.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew review: superb stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming
Shiver me timbers! Superb squad-based stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming.
Jagged Alliance 3 review: Back in business
Tropic Plunder After 24 years, Jagged Alliance is back to take a shot at the squad tactics crown.
20 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Summer Sale ends
💎💎💎 20 games under $20 that you've likely never heard of.
7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
First! Unloved innovations across gaming history have a way of coming back around years later.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review: For all its many flaws, this is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure
Semi-precious This stealth adventure has its charms, despite a fractured identity.
Firmament review: A graphically gorgeous descendant of Myst
MYSTIFYING A beautiful but flawed new adventure from the creators of Myst.
Ravenlok review: Beautiful, polished and painfully hollow
Jabberwonky Ravenlok is a beautiful action-adventure interpretation of Alice In Wonderland, but its qualities only run skin deep.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor—Everything we know
Re-ordered All the holocron-worthy info on Jedi: Survivor, Respawn's Star Wars sequel.
Terra Nil review
Be Kind, rewind More solitaire than strategy, Terra Nil is still a soothing, satisfying and educational environmentalist puzzler.
15 hidden gems to grab before the end of the Steam Spring Sale
Deals, deals All games from the last year that didn't get the attention they deserved.
The Doom mod of the year just dropped in a mysterious forum post, and goes so hard we don't even want to spoil what comes next
MyHouse of Leaves "Last August I lost a good childhood friend [...] Among his old belongings was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school."
