"Despite almost four years of Early Access, Striving for Light feels as unpolished, and doomed to obscurity in 2025 as it completes its Early Access journey, as it did in 2021 when it first entered Steam Early Access."
Ten years ago, I would have been very excited to play The Front, yet in 2024, it's just too generic and uninspired to stand out in an already crowded genre.
While Soulmask goes a long way towards revitalising the sandbox survival genre, it's still early days, and some of the developer's design choices are questionable, to say the least.
After failing and flailing about like a decked fish for several years, Ubisoft not only has a successful free-2-play title, but it has created a game which has the potential to become a cornerstone of the FPS genre.
Night of the Dead is an excellent attempt at making a "better survival game" that unfortunately falls just short of doing so.
While I can not fault the developer's passion, it is time they stopped trying to make HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed a thing, as much like Gretchen's dream of making "fetch" a thing, it is never going to happen.
Witchfire takes the best parts of the Extraction Shooter genre and turns it into a single-player experience that is as engaging and rewarding as Escape from Tarkov and, in some ways, even more so.
V Rising proves that the survival genre still has room for innovation, even as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is a wonderful game held back by design choices that make it less enjoyable than it should be and the developer's insistence on doing everything their own way.
While Class of Heroes 2G: Remaster Edition is slightly less dated than Class of Heroes: Anniversary Edition, nostalgia is the only reason anyone would choose to play it today.