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
Toss, perch on, and leap from your magic staff in the demo for action platformer Akatori
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News Akatori: Chapter One is one of those free prologue demos that are so popular now.
Brotato has a DLC and a free, 4-player local co-op expansion incoming
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News Locked and Bro-ded.
Metroidvania around a microscopic world to save dogs everywhere in BioGun
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News "Will you be the vaccine to save dog-kind from extinction?"
Here's a chaos co-op take on getting boxes off the shipping floor and out the factory door
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News Read, Steady, Ship! is about moving packages with belts, robot arms, machines, and more.
Slash and shoot your way through a procedural bug hole in Ants Took My Eyeball
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News Of all the things to take...
Here's a free demo for upcoming survival crafting, monster-battling, town-builder Tinkerlands
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News Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue to the upcoming larger game.
Check out this town builder with a deep simulation of ecology and climate
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News In Of Life and Land both your villagers and the local animals need water, food, and more to survive.
Town-building survival RPG Bellwright hits Early Access this month
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News Build a town and overthrow an evil monarch in a low fantasy world.
One of the best-reviewed survival crafting games on Steam has hit 1.0 and added 10-person cooperative play
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News The Planet Crafter sits at an impressive 96% positive review rating—with over 26,000 reviews.
Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons
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News You'll be able to play a wholistic vanilla version of Deep Rock or time travel to game modes past.
Check out this indie fusion of Terraria and Satisfactory
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News Autoforge is a 2D automation adventure with some neat stuff going on inside.
The fantasy sequel to Fights in Tight Spaces is just called Knights in Tight Spaces, and it has a demo out now
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Close-quarters tactical card brawling is looking better than ever.
A map revamp means your giant factory-cities in Captain of Industry are going to look better than ever
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News Update 2 also brings conveyor lifts, stackable balancers, and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Mining and base-building sandbox Hydroneer has a sprawling new expansion of volcanos and glaciers
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News The new island is six times as large as the original one.
Use towers, traps, and guns to repel spaceship boarders in tower defense-shooter hybrid Sentry
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News Sentry looks like one for fans of Sanctum and Orcs Must Die.
Frostpunk 2's beta hits on April 15
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News For those who are interested in pre-ordering.
Tweak your crazy spells in this tough, traditional roguelike wizard simulator
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News Rift Wizard 2 builds on the first game in a couple great ways.
Bandai Namco drops three free games, including one where you're a very messy dog ruining the house
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News Plus boomerang surfing action-adventure and robots hacking robots to solve puzzles.
Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8
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News Obviously it is so that the combatants can sit down for a nice waffle and a cup of coffee.
Coffee Stain set to publish a stylishly strange-looking new deckbuilder
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News Hard to argue with a big old magitech-looking sword.
Here's slice and dice, the roguelike RPG where each of your party members is a different die
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News Wizard dice, berserker dice, thief dice, guardian dice—you get the drift.
Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling
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News Which perhaps would have made him too devilish a rascal.
Helldivers 2 players find creative ways to punish toxic hosts: 'I ran with your super samples to the edge of the mission area, and kept on running'
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News Some people just never learned good-natured good sportsmanship.