Pokémon armed with firearms. The flying cigarette butt that ignited the exploding passion of the gaming masses was that ad hoc definition. Unknown and unhyped survival game Palworld shot to fame overnight,

experiences that become viral. When they're awful, like COVID-19, they really stink, but occasionally, like Valheim, they strike the mark and light the world on fire. Nobody could ever guess why some

PC multiplayer shooters are a dime a dozen. Battle royales and extraction shooters have recently supplanted more conventional game types as the dominant genres in the contemporary battlespace. When was

We really need another free-to-play multiplayer shooter in the globe right now. Maybe a straightforward Call of Duty copy, scheduled for release in the middle or end of 2023, tumbling into Counter-Strike

Cheaters abound in well-known, hard-core extraction shooters like Hunt: Showdown and Escape from Tarkov. To suggest they only sometimes come out of the woodwork would be a grave understatement. These

Before Heroes of Might and Magic ever came out, one fantastic game had established the benchmark for turn-based fantasy tactics in the future. Master of Magic (1994) by Simtex, released under the MicroProse

The Nintendo Switch exclusive casual life simulation game Animal Crossing: New Horizons was one of the most played titles during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020–2021. The game offered the ideal path

People either love or detest Diablo Immortal as a game. The wonderful irony is that most of the people who are criticizing it will actually play it. compulsion. As the game is essentially an MMORPG with

It's time for another survival game to take the Steam charts by storm, a full year and a half after Valheim became available for early access. An isometric vampire role-playing game available only on

Probably the craziest big-budget movie of the same period, as well as one of the finest strategy games of the early 1990s, were inspired by one of the greatest science fiction books of the previous century.

Nearly seventeen years have passed since the release of SWAT 4, the last authentic single-player Special Weapons and Tactics simulator. Have police officers become obsolete? Well, it could have in certain

It's difficult to top one of the best rogue-lite games ever made. In what way might you surpass the Darkest Dungeon? by giving it a darker tone? Already, it was sinfully threatening. Updating the bestiary

In the late 1970s, Marvel's legal team attempted to patent the word "zombie," but their dick move backfired (you can read about it here). That being said, any entertainment item that coined a new term

The Nightmare House 2 Source engine modification helped the We Create Stuff development team earn a lot of praise more than ten years ago. Over time, the little, unsettling Half-Life 2 map pack gained

For some fans and producers of video games, the first two Fallout titles are considered the best in the genre of computer role-playing games. Not many role-playing games have been able to top Fallout

Until there's a significant technological revolution in the way we interact with or play games, innovation will mostly take the form of deft blending of well-known genres and inspirations. Phantom Abyss

Going Medieval tries to blend Stronghold and RimWorld's effects with its own genuine framework of survivalism, adversity, and advancement. The game had just entered the early access stage on the Epic

Not exactly, but you could do worse than giving Scavengers a go if you're just not into the big multiplayer games that everyone is playing these days and would rather something different with a respectable

There just isn't a need for another Anthem. One more Anthem is not what you and your friends desire. Even Bioware and EA would like to move on from Anthem, stop losing money, and forget about it. However,

It's much more difficult to anticipate gaming trends than stock market swings. The over-saturated survival simulation game market was gradually following the same path taken by WWII shooters fifteen years