Kenshi

Feudal Japan meets Mad Max featuring special guests the East India Trading Company, robots and the inquisition, all set in the sand blasted ruins of a once technologically advanced world. Encounter humans, hivers (insectoid mutants) and shek (genetically modified fighters who seek death in battle) along with the robots known as skeletons, who definitely didn’t have anything to do with the current dark age. Good: Kenshi is an extremely flexible sandbox, allowing you to play as a samurai, trader, bandit, bounty hunter, archaeologist-salvager, wandering ninja, slaver, slave, skin-stealing robot, bug-man drug-lord, xenophobic zealot and more. You can forge alliances, make … Continue reading Kenshi

ARK: Survival Evolved

Stranded on a dinosaur-infested desert island with little knowledge of what happened, ARK blends traditional sandbox-survival game-play with tracking and taming powerful pets. Good: There is a lot to be said for a sandbox game that really focuses on pets – I mean, who doesn’t like the idea of having a pet dinosaur, let alone a ton of them. ARK lets you maintain a large group of them, bowling over enemies en mass or just zipping around the land, sky or sea using a craftable saddle. Each creature has it’s own diet and abilities, from the hopping giant frogs to … Continue reading ARK: Survival Evolved

7 Days To Die

Post apocalyptic settings seem to breed zombies, and 7 Days To Die is no exception. Played solo or with friends, you are a hapless survivor battling the elements, starvation, infection and the undead with whatever you can craft or scrounge. Good: There is an innate difficulty curve to this game but the big selling point is the ‘heat’ system and the blood moon hordes that spawn on the titular seventh day. Covering the heat system first, any and all non-sneaky actions generate ‘heat’ as does the presence of active machinery or gore. Heat decays over time, but generating too much … Continue reading 7 Days To Die