With a perfect blend of campy and cool, the Dark Nights with Poe and Munro game plays more like a television show than a videogame. Sort of like the X-Files, Dark Nights will whet your appetite for the weird and haunted.
XCOM: Chimera Squad is a tactical strategy game from Firaxis based off their XCOM 2 engine, but stripped down a bit and refocused so that there is a heck of a lot more action. You may be street fighting instead of trying to save a planet, but the gameplay is just as epic.
Help Will Come Tomorrow is a strategy against all odds kind of simulation, in the vein of This War of Mine. Caught in a mysterious train wreck during pre-revolution Russia, your closest companions will be a train of strangers, starvation, wolves, marauders and the ever present cold.
WarriOrb is a fun platformer that blends a lot of different elements well. It’s a dungeon crawler at heart though, with smooth controls, great artwork, challenging enemies and a humorous backstory.
The Trials of Mana is a fully faithful remake from the original story with much better graphics and a more thrilling, high definition soundtrack. As for the plot of the game, both good and bad elements make the jump, but for this title, it’s mostly good stuff.
Laeral Silverhand’s Explorer’s Kit is a small bundle of goodies for your Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It features a set of really beautiful arctic blue and silver dice, a fancy carrying case and adventure cards of Sword Coast people and places.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a unique tactical RPG with a plot based on Hungarian folklore. It’s also a visually stunning game with good voice acting, so definitely a must-play title for role-players looking for something a little bit different.
The unique concept of building out a perfect medieval shop for adventures works really well for the Shop Titans free-to-play MMO. Recently launched on Steam, with full cross-play to mobile platforms, Shop Titans is quite the shopping adventure.
Released at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, The Complex is an interactive movie about bioterrorism and virus fears that is well acted and extremely interesting, but which might hit a bit too close to home. The movies might be closed, but you can still enjoy cinema deep inside The Complex.
Archaica: The Path of Light is a beautiful puzzle game with brilliant graphics and clever levels to solve. Those of you who like pure puzzlers will find a lot to love here, and many hours of challenging gameplay.
