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The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes
News Half-hominid, half-spirit
"We know that the players are the ones actually enjoying the game": Moonlighter 2 owes its existence to its devs' astonishingly in-depth approach to player feedback
On the Radar Testing, testing, testing
After 2 roguelikes, an acclaimed strategy game, and a League of Legends spin-off all in just 7 years, the Moonlighter 2 devs explain how new ideas are key to their survival
On the Radar Digital Sun is on an incredible run
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review: "Dungeon delving, balancing sacks of loot, then hawking your wares is still a compelling loop – but the exchange rate between those pillars is wobbly in early access"
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The Witcher author says "there is no cooperation at all between me and the games," and he won't play The Witcher 4 because "it's not an entertainment for me"
News "I never played the games, so I know practically nothing about it"
Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open
News Maggie Robertson, Lady Dimetrescu herself, will host this year's ceremony
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are leading a turn-based renaissance, and it's leaving games like Pokemon Legends: Z-A far behind
Opinion It's a good time to be a strategy sicko
Critical Role 4 DM Brennan Lee Mulligan confirms the D&D campaign's big bad, and I've got a feeling no amount of natural 20s is gonna beat this one
News I know DMs that use subtexts, and they're all cowards
Critical role 4 newcomer says she's in "a race to the bottom" with one of her co-stars: "I made the mistake of thinking I could out-troll him"
News Tyranny and Wicander are causing problems on purpose
Pokemon Legends Z-A tests my 25 years of Pokemon experience in all the wrong ways, and I'm begging Game Freak to ease up on the tutorials
Opinion "I know more than you"
Pokemon Legends: Z-A might have overhauled combat even more than I thought, with an entire set of strategies sacrificed on the real-time altar
News My Absol would like a word
The last time I was this obsessed with a Balatro-like, it sold 750,000 copies in 2 weeks – and this one has a D&D twist so it's easily my favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest
News Slots & Daggers is a strong entry in a crowded field
Ball x Pit review: "Vampire Survivors and Breakout collide in this brilliant roguelike ball basher that struggles with repetition"
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The biggest roguelike in Steam Next Fest is a Braveheart-inspired musou fighter with almost perfect reviews
News You'll never take our free-demo
I never really vibed with XCOM 2, but this Steam Next Fest demo is a turn-based strategy RPG I can finally get behind
News Menace's suppression system fixes everything that annoyed me about XCOM
A zombie apocalypse sim that puts you on the front lines of a The Last of Us-style outbreak is tearing up Steam Next Fest
News Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor
I've been a professional writer for 8 years, but that didn't stop Steam Next Fest's weirdest battle royale - a terrifying typing game - from completely humbling me
News Final Sentence proved I'm not quite as good at my job as I hoped
One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games was a supremely zen rock-climbing experience - right up until I fell to my death
News Cairn is tearing up the survival game charts
Steam Next Fest's first big hit is a brutal medieval combat sim where I bludgeoned three other peasants with a candlestick
News Half Sword is a massive early breakout
Undertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale
News The cycle repeats
Borderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"
News Prepare for a hefty loot grind
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest victim of a major Nintendo breach, as more than 70GB of information is reportedly shared online in huge 'Freakleak'
News But this could be a planned extension of the recent 'giagleak'
Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better
News Randy says "most of what our prefrontal cortex is for" is picking better loot
