Life Below is our Game of the Week #61 review. After five to six hours with it, the reef-building habitat game stands out with strong music, smart autosave, clear ecosystem systems, 32:9 support, and a 7.5/10 score.
Corsair Cove is our Game of the Week #60, a pirate city builder from Limbic Entertainment and Hooded Horse where vertical building, ship crews, and production chains keep piracy alive.
Our updated 2026 Viking games list covers Valheim 1.0, NORSE: Oath of Blood, Vikings Dynasty, ASKA, FENRIR, True Vikings, and more Norse-inspired games worth watching.
Tropico 7 has finally shown gameplay, with Kalypso Media and Gaming Minds Studios teasing bigger islands, terraforming, and a sharper political sandbox for El Presidente’s return.
Commie Block is now available on Steam, blending satirical city-building survival with escalating quotas, resource management, and corruption-driven decision-making.
A Patreon-backed dragon RPG/strategy with a long runway — and early access already live Dragontwin is an upcoming open-world RPG/strategy project where the core fantasy is simple: you’re a Dragontwin — a mortal soulbound to a powerful dragon — and the game is built around how you shape that bond, your character, and your path…
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A striking horror vibe trapped in a rigid card-path loop Reviewed on PC.Score: 6/10 Roots Devour has an instantly memorable presentation — black-and-red horror energy, unsettling creature designs, and a core idea that should land for strategy players. But after a few hours, the systems around that idea feel underdeveloped, and too many runs start…
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A tough comment that sparked the “Oil revolution” and pushed Umbral Moon forward This is part of Fix Stories — dev-authored journeys published on Fix Gaming Channel. Just a few weeks ago, I was the proud owner of an adorable mess. My game – Killing Momentum: Umbral Moon – was a mismatch of impasto oil…
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A checkpoint sim where one wrong call can doom the living Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a border checkpoint simulator set in a collapsing city, where a rampant zombie-like infection is taking hold — and your station is the last line before everything spills over. Players take command of the final checkpoint and inspect…
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News Tower hits 1.0 on Steam with an Overwhelmingly Positive start After almost two years in Early Access, News Tower has officially launched in version 1.0 on Steam. The News Tower 1.0 launch sees the 1930s newspaper management sim from Rotterdam-based indie team Sparrow Night and publisher Twin Sails Interactive finally arrive as a full…
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Becastled 1.0: cozy castle sieges now on PC and consoles Becastled has finally marched out of Early Access and into a full 1.0 launch on PC and consoles. It’s a city-building and siege-defense strategy game where you build your medieval village by day and try to hold the walls when the Moon Beasts attack at…
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Contraband Police Review Reviewed on PlayStation 5.Score: 8/10 Contraband Police launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 7, 2025. We took the opportunity to put it through its paces in a detailed review. Developed by Crazy Rocks, a small studio based in Warsaw, Poland, the game first arrived on PC in March…
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Aztecs: The Last Sun — (Early Access, PC) Reviewed on PC.Score: 6/10 I’ve had this on my radar for a while, and I finally put proper time into it: about 4.5 hours of play plus a 1h30 ultrawide capture. For those looking for Aztecs: The Last Sun first impressions, this is not a scored review—just…
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Anvil Empires Brings Massive Battles To Life in a Persistent Medieval MMO Anvil Empires is setting its sights on being a worthy contender to the MMO scene, where players in their thousands will live, fight, build, and conquer in a persistent online world. Anvil Empires is an exciting persistent medieval MMO offering players epic experiences….
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First Impressions — Mars Attracts Reviewed on PC.Score: 7.5/10 I’ve spent half my life on city-builders and sims. The golden era for me runs from SimCity 2000 and SimCity 4 through Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus: Master of Olympus, Tropico, Anno 1404, Banished, and into modern staples like Cities: Skylines. Mars Attracts first impressions are influenced…
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