You’re three minutes into a raid. Your bag is stuffed with salvage, you’ve dodged a Tick, and you’re sneaking toward the extraction point with your heart in your throat. Then the screen dumps you to the desktop with “Anti-Cheat Integrity Check Failure.” All that loot is gone. I’ve been there, and I wanted to throw…
There’s a special kind of rage reserved for the moment you drop into Speranza with a three-person squad, hit the loading screen with a £200 wireless headset on your head, and see it: the little crossed-out microphone icon next to your name. Your friends are shouting about a Bastion patrolling the ridge. You’re shouting back….
Okay, let me vent for a second. You hear about a chaotic little dungeon crawler from Behold Studios, you finally get a free evening, you hit Play, and what do you get? A black screen. Maybe a green loading bar that flashes for half a second and dies. Maybe a Unity crash popup throwing some…
Okay, let me vent for a second. I had been hyped for Deep Dish Dungeon for weeks. A first-person metroidvania from Behold Studios, with a goofy, stylized look, dungeon crawling, and combat that looks properly crunchy? Take my money. I hit that Play button on Steam with a snack in one hand and a fully…
Okay, I need to vent first, and then I’ll help you. I bought Trash Day on Steam, fully ready to lose a whole weekend to that groundhog-day neighborhood loop. I’d been waiting for it. I double-clicked Play, got a flash of a black screen, and then… nothing. Back to the desktop. No error message, no…
Okay, I need to vent for a second, and then I promise I’ll be useful. I had been looking forward to Trash Day for weeks. Indie life-sim, scrappy little studio (Off by One Games), a premise that sounded weirdly cozy and chaotic at the same time. I cleared my evening, made tea, hit ‘Play’ on…
Okay, I need to vent for a second. I love Trash Day. I mean really love it. Dragging a rusty shopping cart through a junkyard with three other raccoons, all of us screaming into voice chat while a pile of garbage collapses on someone’s head? Peak co-op chaos. Off by One Games has made something…
Okay, I need to vent for a second. I have been playing Trash Day for a few days now, and I am completely, hopelessly hooked. Six raccoons, one stolen wagon, a mountain of garbage, and a dream called Raccoon Paradise? Sign me up. Off By One Games has made one of the funniest physics-based co-op…
Roguelike progression, arcade racing, and a grid full of speeders screaming across Jakku, Tatooine and Ando Prime. On paper, Star Wars Galactic Racer from Fuse Games (published by Secret Mode) is exactly the kind of thing I’d stay up until 4 a.m. for. It’s out on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Amazon Luna, and…