Very few games break a million downloads. Helldivers 2 — which was, until very recently, my top guess for being the most popular new game of 2024 — saw 12 million downloads in its first three months. Marvel Rivals achieved 10 million players in three…

Nearly a decade ago, Blizzard launched its first-ever MOBA, Heroes of the Storm (HOTS). The gaming giant’s answer to existing genre titans, like League of Legends and DOTA, saw heroes from Blizzard’s iconic brands clash against one another in mixed-team battles. Heroes (and villains) from…

I’ve always been a fan of games that turn the tides on humans. I blame War of the Monsters (2003) on PlayStation 2 for kickstarting that human-crushing joy. Over the years we’ve seen plenty of puny-human games for players to smash and crash through, but…

I’ve been an off-and-on subscriber to World of Warcraft since 2007, shortly after the release of the Burning Crusade expansion. I am by no means a hardcore player—I rarely get to serious, end-game raiding—but I am not exactly a casual player either. My expertise, dare…

I am a shameless Steam Deck enthusiast. I pre-ordered mine the minute after I first read the announcement and I’ve honestly enjoyed my playing games on the Deck ever since mine arrived. It’s a solid piece of hardware that lets me play some of my…

Chances are, if we’ve chatted about most-played video games of the past few years, I probably mentioned Marvel Snap. While Marvel’s free-to-play trading card game (TCG) is available on Steam, 99% of my play time has been on my iPhone. My go-to devour of a…

I picked up American Truck Simulator during the Steam Summer Sale (store page link) for only a couple dollars. I noticed it was marked as Verified for the Steam Deck and the review scores were consistently high. I needed a chill game to play over…

I recently upgraded my PC and have been poking through my backlog looking for games I picked up over the years but held off on playing to await a better GPU. Hellblade: Senna’s Sacrifice always looked like the kind of game I’d want to play…

As possibly one of the oldest non-Valve games in my Steam library, Machinarium lingered on my list of shame for over a decade at this point. Machinarium (Steam store link) released in 2009, and I believe I scooped it up in the second Humble Indie…

Battlefield 2042 was a disaster when it launched in 2021. The Open Beta was fun enough that I committed the prime evil sin of pre-ordering the game (never making that mistake again) due to the hype and fun I had with my friends during the…