Jonathan Bolding
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Latest articles by Jonathan Bolding

Use watery powers to explore a fantastical desert in Fading Echo
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News The animation is pretty stylish, to boot.

Blind Descent is an survival game about a hidden world deep beneath the surface of Mars
By Jonathan Bolding published
News They're boasting an ecosystem that reacts to your presence.

'Dominate the Waifu Industrial Complex': There's a new 3v3 movement shooter called Waifu Tactical Force because of course there is
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news The tactical movement shooter is coming to Steam next year, with an alpha starting now.

I can already tell that this co-op firefighting game is going to lead to some hilarious highlight clips
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Firefighting Simulator: Ignite pits four players against blazing buildings and rescue scenarios.

Isometric stealth game Eriksholm continues to look gorgeous in a new video
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News Check out some beautifully-rendered early 1900s Scandinavian fantasy.

3 years after it was announced, here's a look at the psychedelic horror game from Spec Ops: The Line's Cory Davis and Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails
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News Sleep Awake seems perfectly primed to make you have a few nightmares.

They're making an RPG based on The Expanse, and it's got Mass Effect vibes
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News The trailer's worth watching just for the spaceship combat and low-G gunfights.

D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
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News We're at the endgame of insane home-builds for D&D and I am loving it.

Escape from Duckov is coming back with a new demo
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News It's a singleplayer extraction shooter about ducks with guns.

Desktop Survivors 98 is an action roguelike that moves at the speed of your mouse, which is to say pretty fast
By Jonathan Bolding published
news What if Clippy were a sword?

Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of dark fantasy to explore
By Jonathan Bolding published
News A nice break from all those high fantasy ones you've played.

Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows
By Jonathan Bolding published
News I guess the Assassins are good at surviving?

'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Will the 'stackable flatulence dart' make it into Rust? We can only hope.

This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo
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news Scout out routes to quickly move a volatile cargo from one place to another.

Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?
By Jonathan Bolding published
news By Andy Serkis? From actual Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens?

House Flipper 2 is having a free weekend, and just got co-op
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News The free co-op DLC works cross-platform between Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation.

The Gothic 1 Remake demo has been updated based on fan
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News "More than 15,000 players" provided on the original Gothic 1 Remake demo, informing a new version.

Killing Floor 3's new release date is late July
By Jonathan Bolding published
News After a delay from the planned March release.

REPO devs are making that new Overcharge mechanic kick in later on—alongside other difficulty scaling
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News

A unique horror strategy game about drilling for oil released on Steam last week
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Anoxia Station is a harrowing indie game with a distinct aesthetic.

There's another Risk of Rain 2 expansion on the way
By Jonathan Bolding published
NEWS A year after the rather disastrous last one, now fixed.

V Rising is doing big numbers on Steam after its recent update, plus it's 50% off
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The year-old vampire survival game has surged in popularity thanks to a big update and sale.

There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option
By Jonathan Bolding published
news Take on thousands of medieval soldiers in a free demo of Diplomacy is Not an Option.