While Voxel art styles are a dime a dozen, The Kindred manages to set itself apart with its sim-survival elements, beautiful world and a high ceiling for growth. It may still be in Steam Early Access, but The Kindred shows exceptional progress and offers a high level of fun even now.
Ascent – The Space Game is an indie MMO where players can explore over 270 billion star systems. So players can literally both boldly go where no one has gone before, and also play constantly for years without ever learning even half of the universe’s many secrets.
This week Billy is continuing his Time Waster adventures with Bus Simulator 16, but is it really something you should spend your time on?
World’s Dawn is a Kickstarter-funded effort to create a fun life simulator game that is styled very much after the Harvest Moon series. So how close does it come, and yea, is it actually any good? We create a character and find out.
In The Westport Independent, players take on the role of a newspaper editor in a fictional country around 1949. A war has just ended. The government wants to censor newspapers. Rebels are blowing stuff up. Reporters are divided. Can one editor keep it together?
We deploy into space to take a look at the punishingly difficult Tharsis game from developer Choice Provisions, where survival all comes down to the roll of a D6. How long did we survive in the cold, dark of space, with only our dice to keep us company?
This week Billy is doing the best at what he does, procrastinating. In fact, he’s so good at it that we don’t know if the word ‘good’ can really be used to describe it anymore.
Harken back to the days of Privateer and Wing Commander 3 with the incredibly beautiful, fully-open world space exploration Elite Dangerous game. Playing on either the PC or the Xbox One is an experience not to be missed.
This week Billy is playing a plant-growing simulator that takes itself a little too seriously. After all, is it really fun to watch the grass grow? Check out Viridi’s review inside.
It’s not very often that we get to trumpet the quality and fun of a completely free title, but Fallout Shelter fits the bill. Available now for both the iOS and Android platforms, it’s one cool little game that everyone should be downloading.
