Project Silverfish is a brutal open world FPS that plays like a retro Stalker 2
As games like Stalker 2 and Far Cry 6 prove, the FPS and an open world can be a match made in heaven. You may lose out on tightly-designed, bespoke…
DayZ’s Badlands expansion adds the survival game’s biggest, most brutal map yet
Are you the kind of person who, playing DayZ, thought that maybe it was a little too easy? Maybe you just want a change of scenery. That's where this zombie…
Brutal soulslike Nioh 2 drops to lowest price ahead of its sequel
I love Lies of P, I love Elden Ring, and I love the Star Wars Jedi duology, but most of all, I love Nioh 2, which remains my favorite game…
Brutal cyberpunk roguelike Kiborg improves with a punishing new endless mode
I adore the cyberpunk genre's juxtaposition of low-life and high-tech. These worlds might have robotics and computers beyond our wildest dreams, but 99% of the people that exist within them…
The brutal, stylish Hotel Barcelona offers my favorite Steam Next Fest demo
Steam Next Fest usually feels like videogame Christmas. I get to try out a bunch of exciting new games for an hour or so each. Some bad, some good, and…
Invincible VS Is a Brutal, Bloody 3v3 Tag Fighter
Several members of Invincible VS's 40+ person development team played a core role in the development of 2013’s Killer Instinct, and you can feel that influence. Seeing Invincible VS is…
ILL is real, and it might be the most brutal horror FPS since the original FEAR
It’s the very first concept trailer for ILL that really sticks in the mind. All of 60 seconds long - and, as it happens, set in an entirely different location…
Hit zombie game Into the Dead is suddenly much more brutal after first update
It seemed like videogames had reached a zombie saturation point about a decade ago. The popularity of Telltale's The Walking Dead, Dying Light, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead 2, and…
New Once Human patch notes add a brutal PvP mode and floating buildings
In a year of big survival games, Once Human managed to stand out as one of the major winners of 2024, alongside stalwarts such as Rust and Valheim, and fellow…
Blades of Fire review – brutal action RPG can’t get weird enough
The creators of Blades of Fire have played a lot of videogames. Developer Mercurysteam has spent a decade-plus working on classic series like Castlevania and Metroid. As might befit that…