It might be blasphemy to say, but I’ve never played Elden Ring despite the fact that I loved the Dark Souls games. Something just always got in the way of me finding the right moment to jump into it. Nightreign’s co-op focus, however, grabbed my attention. Full Co-op is the biggest thing I wanted in any Souls game, and the fact that it’s wrapped in a rogue-lite cloak made it an even better fit for me.
This is going to be a weird review because my relationships with RoadCraft and its predecessors, like SnowRunner, are a bit weird. You see, after finding my love for Death Stranding, I gave SnowRunner a try and bounced off. I couldn’t imagine anyone finding a game about being stuck in the mud fun. Then I discovered Snowrunner’s hard mode and custom campaign, and I was hooked.
With those modes, fuel, damage, and money all mattered. Getting stuck or flipping a vehicle required me to send another vehicle to rescue it to try and avoid the recovery fee, because if I mismanaged my time and money, I could actually fail the entire campaign. SnowRunner became as much a planning and strategy game as it did a driving sim, and I loved it.
Doomlings is a game about playing cards that make up the genome of an evolving species before the end of the world. Mother nature is not most gentle of parents however, so you naturally have the ability to affect and screw over competing species while building your apex Doomling.
If you put Space Invaders and Slay The Spire in a blender, the aftermath would look a whole lot like StarVaders. The thing is, I love deckbuilding games, but so many Slay the Spire clones land in my inbox every week that they have to really put a unique spin on the formula to impress me.