XCOM and Hunt Showdown inspire new strategy game and extraction shooter hybrid
Ice Code Games, creator of Hard West 2 and last year's Rogue Waters, has made a niche for itself in mashing up tactical combat design with supernaturally-infused historical settings. Hard…
Elden Ring and Darkest Dungeon inspire punishing new roguelike RPG
Death plays a strange role in videogames. You’re always trying to avoid it, but at the same time, it’s basically inconsequential. You might lose a bit of progress, but mostly,…
Frostpunk 2 and Manor Lords inspire new survival city builder, out now
If it wasn't enough of a challenge to construct and take care of a city in building games like Manor Lords, Cities Skylines 2, Tropico 6, or Anno 1800, another…
Elden Ring Community Heroes Like Let Me Solo Her Helped Inspire The Acolyte’s Hit Villain
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland recently revealed that The Master's flowy armor (and exposed muscles) were inspired by scantily clad Elden Ring badasses like Let Me Solo Her.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Helped Inspire These New D&D Rules
GMs (Game Masters) are always taking inspiration from other media to implement new ideas into their world, and it looks like Wizards of the Coast is no different, because Larian…
Cyberpunk 2077 and Silent Hill inspire gorgeous new Steam horror game
One of the most interesting-looking games from Summer Game Fest's Day of the Devs is this horror fusion of Cyberpunk 2077 and Silent Hill. It's a stunning, haunted house mystery…
Hollow Knight and Celeste inspire promising Metroidvania set for Steam
Drawing inspiration from other videogames can be a double-edged sword. You set up an immediate understanding of what you're trying to make while inevitably fighting that gold standard at the…
Far Cry and The Forest inspire beloved survival game that just hit 1.0
It’s the age-old hypothetical - if you were shipwrecked on a desert island, how do you think you’d survive? Would you find a cave, keep your profile low, and subsist…
Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Into the Breach inspire new 4X game
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we saw Songs of Conquest come out in its full version on Steam, providing audiences with a strategy game that incorporates…
Stellar Blade X NieR: Automata: Yoko Taro and Hyung-Tae Kim on How Their Blockbusters Inspire One Another
We talk to Yoko Taro and Hyung-Tae Kim about the ways that Stellar Blade is inspired by NieR: Automata, comparisons between EVE and 2B, and much more.