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Games like Dark Souls understand their source material. They blend hard-as-nails but oh-so-rewarding combat with ambiguous narrative, wherein nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. Demon’s Souls may have preceded its older, darker cousin, but it was Dark Souls that would spawn an entire genre of …

Let’s be honest, the best free Xbox One games are some of the biggest experiences in the entire industry. Whether it’s battle royales like Fortnite and PUBG, arena shooters like Halo Infinite, fighting games like Dead of Alive 5 and Killer Instinct, or creation tools like Roblox – there’s a …

In Skyrim, much like reality, the overworld is well-explored. Over the last 10 years, inquisitive nomads have roved its rolling pastoral plains, climbed its highest hills, and plumbed the depths of its deepest holds and keeps. There isn’t a nook or cranny in the whole of the dragon-ravaged realm that’s …

There’s a standoff right now in Red Dead Online. It’s pistols at dawn, 10 paces apart, a duel of significant proportions. On one side stands the western crime sim’s dedicated community, holstering passion for their favourite open-world sandbox and a hashtag, #SaveRedDeadOnline. On the other stands Rockstar, accused of inaction, …

When Travis Scott began plucking stars from the twinkling Fortnite sky my heart skipped a beat. We’re hardly out of the woods amid the ongoing global pandemic, but at the tail end of April 2020, quarantine restrictions had halted foreign travel. Enforced lockdowns had shuttered the hospitality industry overnight, and …

Strategy games will typically throw a lot at you in the opening hours. A mass of systems to learn, should you have any hope of keeping your characters alive between battles. Which units trump which, where can each unit type move, and how can you better upgrade units for future …

Like the Elden Ring itself, the soulslike genre has been shattered – by the very studio that created it. Yet, in taking those shards – pieces of Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro – and forging Elden Ring, FromSoftware has managed to create something that feels entirely new yet …

Dolmen is a Soulslike. Okay, fair enough, the game that was recently voted the greatest of all time casts a long shadow. As a fan of FromSoftware’s action-RPG series, and the genre it has since inspired, I’m hardly complaining. Throw a sci-fi setting into that mix and I am well …

This is it. At this very moment, I feel like I could actually be in with a chance of winning The Eliminator in Forza Horizon 5. I’ve bested the drivers who challenged me in head-to-head races in the arena, and now there are only 12 players left. All that stands …

The majority of city builder games come with a generous helping of stress. Unsatisfied residents, death, disease, pollution, waste, looming energy crises… the list goes on. But with Dorfromantik, I’ve put it straight at the top of my list of the best city-building games because it comes with absolutely zero …