Fractured Utopias fleshes out the sandbox and adds some fantastic faction mechanics, but it double-downs on the macro-scale detachment. It’s a warm spot in an icy game, but don’t expect it to melt the barrier between you and your subjects.

We recently got to play a preview build of DarkSwitch that shows off a little bit more than the Steam demo does—and few colony sims have grabbed me quite like this. I probably haven’t been this invested in the genre since the original Frostpunk thrust me into a “what if” frozen world and tasked me with keeping its residents alive. But instead of a frozen wasteland, DarkSwitch drops you into a lush fantasy world where being on the ground means being subjected to a creeping fog

Stop me if you've heard this one: You've got very specific health, academic, and social goals. There are 24 hours in a day You need money, but you also need to exercise, eat right, and do chores By Wednesday, you're hopped up on caffeine and feeling good. You’re motivated, and you're gonna do the things.  On Friday, you find out you're short 12 dollars for your college application fees, have no energy at all, no laundry done, and can't go to the party. I'm sorry, is th

Nostalgia isn’t new, and neither is blatant nostalgia bait. I’m actually okay with it though, especially since I’m the target of this one. Terminator 2: Judgment Day was seminal to my childhood cultural appreciation. I saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day  in the theater as many times as I could convince my parents to let me go, and later rented Terminator on VHS to see where it all started.