Grim and joyful deckbuilder The Royal Writ is coming for genre king Balatro next month
The Fool King is dead, long live the Deckbuilder King. The Decking, if you will. Publishers Yogscast Ga...
TerraTech Legion blasts new tracks through the Bullet Heaven genre
TerraTech Legion rolls into the enemy-infested wastelands, guns blazing, electricity arcing and explosives… ex...
The PowerWash clean ‘em up genre is dead, long live the sci-fi undertaker sim
You'd think there'd be more video games that are explicitly about clearing away corpses, given how many...
The FPS genre is addicted to sprinting and clambering, but Halo just proved we’re better off without them
Whenever I tell friends that I'm still playing Halo Infinite in 2025, the reactions are usually somewhere betw...
‘I don’t actually play horror games’: Phasmophobia’s lead developer had no intention of making a horror game but still kicked off a whole new genre
I'll never forget the first time my friends and I played Phasmophobia. It was like nothing I'd ever played bef...
Nightmare Frontier is a terrifying tactical extraction looter that’s mashing together its own genre
Nightmare Frontier wants you to live in fear. Not of its genre-mashing tactical-extraction-looter setup, but o...
Quantum Witch is a story of religious oppression, queer emancipation, and a dancing skeleton that hopes to popularise the ‘plotformer’ genre
You might not have heard of Quantum Witch, but if you’ve an affinity for pixel-art platformers with engaging s...
The Nintendo Switch taught me to love an entire genre of games
Sometimes it isn’t what you play, but where you play it that makes all the difference. Ever since the Nintendo...
Vale’s Echo is a dark, gothic foray into the cosy horror genre
There is something very wrong in Vale’s world. For one thing, everyone is dead, and for another, she’s trapped...
3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
Two JRPGs from some genre veterans still seem to be stuck in purgatory, despite both having led a mega-success...