Worshippers of Cthulhu © Crazy Goat Games, Crytivo Products Worshippers of Cthulhu There are many games based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. But a city-building strategy game in which you lead a cult to awaken Cthulhu so he can reshape the cosmos is really something new. Worshippers of Cthulhu immediately looks like an Anno game set in a dark By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© tinyBuild Products All Will Fall A survival city builder with Jenga on top. All Will Fall, a game from All Parts Connected and tinyBuild, allows players to build a settlement on a small area in three-dimensional verticality - and hopefully nothing will collapse. But that is part of the game's concept. There are By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PC) © Square Enix Products Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PC) The Remake trilogy continues on PC and compared to the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix has both improved the port and changed the release strategy with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Why this change of strategy? Having learned from press and user feedback on the PC port of By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Funcom Products Aloft As one of the most played demos at Steam's Next Fest in June 2024, and with over 300,000 wishlists, Aloft from Astrolabe Interactive and Funcom is ready to take off in Early Access. Co-operation. Survival. Cosy. Developer Astrolabe Interactive and publisher Funcom have tapped into three very By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Dynasty Warriors: Origins © Omega Force and Koei Tecmo Products Dynasty Warriors: Origins 1-vs-1,000 battles have never been more intense than in Dynasty Warriors: Origins. Omega Force and Koei Tecmo have created a well-executed reboot of the action-strategy series. It was Koei Tecmo's second-strongest Steam launch to date. Omega Force is known for its Musou games, hack-and-slash games with strategic/ By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Hades II © Supergiant Games Products Hades II Without much ado, Supergiant Games simply released Hades II in Early Access in May 2024, after only a short technical test run. This is a sign of confidence, and the San Francisco-based team can be proud of their first sequel, because even in Early Access, the game is the crowning By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
Urban Strife © White Pond Games and MicroProse Products Urban Strife White Pond Games and MicroProse present Urban Strife as a classic, turn-based, strategic fight for survival in a zombie apocalypse. The Early Access game is reminiscent of Jagged Alliance and Dead State, but needs a bit more development time, although the core is actually quite good. Old school TBS. Post-apocalyptic By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Guidelight Games / Ghost Ship Publishing Products SpellRogue Rolling dice and manipulating them to cast spells is the basic idea behind SpellRogue - a deck-building roguelike with turn-based combat. The game comes from Guidelight Games and Ghost Ship Publishing, both based in Denmark, with the latter having big plans for this year. SpellRogue is about using magic dice, By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Dungeon Clawler © Stray Fawn Studio Products Dungeon Clawler Clawing instead of crawling. In this roguelike deckbuilding game from Swiss studio Stray Fawn Studio, players don't just draw cards. No, they use an arcade-style claw machine to (hopefully) draw the right items, weapons and buffs for the challenge of each battle. Even as Stray Fawn Studio continues By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Nintendo Products Donkey Kong Country Returns HD The apes are back! Almost 15 years after the release of Donkey Kong Country Returns for Wii, Nintendo is releasing an HD version for Switch. The levels from the later 3DS version are also included, but that's not all that's new. Although the life cycle of By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Total War: Warhammer III - Omens of Destruction © The Creative Assembly, Sega, Games Workshop Products Total War: Warhammer III - Omens of Destruction The current flagship of The Creative Assembly is Total War: Warhammer III, which, after some difficulties, continues to be supplied with DLC. As recently with Omens of Destruction, where the developer and publisher try to learn from past mistakes. This is the second DLC pack in which the Legendary Lords By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Bolt Blaster Products The Spell Brigade Small Belgian indie studio Bolt Blaster Games scored a hit with their survival/bullet hell game The Spell Brigade by mixing in online co-op elements - even with optional friendly fire that recalls the chaos of Magicka. It sold more than 125,000 copies in less than two months. Following By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
