We're so often the ones fighting against monsters in games that whenever there's an opportunity to change roles, I've got to relish it. Carrion from Phobia Game Studio is pitched as a "reverse horror game," and it calls to mind a short but ...

Over the weekend I got to play an early preview build of Ion Maiden, the latest retro-inspired FPS from 3D Realms and Voidpoint games. That's right, the same folks behind Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and who helped birth the FPS genre by ...

Even if you don't feel like loading up on cheap Steam games right now, it's worth popping over to the Lunar New Year Sale to see some cute dogs. They even have a plump little Sif from Dark Souls! The sale runs today through Monday, February...

What the Golf? bills itself as "the golf game for people who don't play golf." It's spot on. One quick scroll through this gif-filled about page is all you'll need to know if this is your type of silly, experimental take on sports. You can ...

Good Old Games is one of the better consumer-friendly digital marketplaces because it provides you with DRM-free games and usually has some goodies thrown in for older games. Over the past year and a half, GOG has been allowing you to conne...

Bloober Team's psychological horror adventure Layers of Fear is currently free through the Humble Store as part of a 48-hour giveaway. Along with a free Steam copy of the game (Windows, Mac, Linux), you'll also score the soundtrack from com...

The folks at the Humble Store have been in a giving mood as of late and that trend continues today with yet another freebie. For a limited time, you can score a free Steam key (Windows, Mac, Linux) for Relic Entertainment's 2013 World War I...

The long and turbulent wait for Iconoclasts is set to end (relatively) soon and I wasn't sure this day would ever arrive. The eye-catching 2D action-adventure game from Noitu Love creator Konjak is now slated to release on January 23, 2018 ...

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. While it may not be Portal 3 like many of us want, fans of killer robots, blue holes, and bridges will get to return to the halls of Aperture Science soon with Bridge Constructor Portal. From Headup G...

Humble Bundle has assembled another one of those big, all-for-charity bundles much like the Freedom Bundle earlier this year. This time, it's the Humble Care Package Bundle, a collection of 27 games being sold for $30 in support of charitie...

Sometimes, you just want to forget about the world around you with a good, hearty simulation game. For me, anyway, few if any genres are more effective at making time fly by than simulators. That's the subject of this week's Humble Bundle, ...

2003's action-adventure title Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is about to pop up on PC, Mac, and Linux by way of THQ Nordic. There's quite a lot going on with these new versions -- more than you might expect from years-later ports of a game mos...

This week is Halloween PC gaming sale week. Steam's running its promotion and so is GOG.com, with discounts on 200-some titles new and old alike. For this year's sale, there's a neat bonus: if you spend $15 or more, GOG will throw in the ex...

Steam has kicked off its Halloween festivities with a big ol' sale on all manner of spooky scary games and movies. (Have any of you ever watched a movie through Steam? I forget that's even an option.) Here are some assorted on-sale games I ...

While I prefer the personal touch of hand-picking a game on Steam, gifting it to a friend, guilting them into playing it, and getting annoyed when they never do, there's an alternative: digital gift cards. Valve is now letting Steam users b...

Humble Bundle has rounded up a handful of excellent games in celebration of the fifth annual Day of the Devs festival. The free event will happen next month in San Francisco and it's your chance to play upcoming titles like Knights and Bike...

Sometimes it feels like I've done it all. I've been a military man, I've been a wizard, I've been a space traveler, I've been a space wizard. Then something like Lichtspeer comes along with its own unique aesthetic and reminds me how many d...

[Disclosure: Jim Sterling, a former reviews editor at Destructoid, is lending his voice to this project. As always, no relationships, personal or professional, were factored into this coverage.] Cyanide & Happiness doesn't always make m...

As the drip-feed of information continues about Atari's mysterious console, Ataribox, new details gleaned from an Atari newsletter gives us a rough price window for the machine, scheduled for release next year.According to the email, the At...

Kingdom takes strategy and distills it down to its simplest systems. There's one currency to keep track of, it's either going out to expand and upgrade capability, or it's coming in from workers and exploration. The original game had one go...

Multiplayer in Stardew Valley has been a long time coming, and it'll be a while yet. Chucklefish has detailed what we can expect from the cooperative mode now that the developers have "pinned down the main technical issues" bogging down the...

Nicky Case makes games that might just teach you something. There are topics ranging from voting to coming out to two-dimensional matrices. This most recent game hits pretty hard right now, when the world seems bad and people in it seem bad...

Black Screen Records has announced that it is teaming up with composer Michael Kelly to release the soundtrack to VA-11 HALL-A, hands down one of the best games to come out last year, on vinyl. The limited edition release, due out his summe...

With services like PlayStation Now and EA Access out in the wild, the idea of subscription gaming services doesn't seem to be going anywhere. The newest player in this growing market is Jump. Unlike its triple-A brothers, Jump's focus ...

After the announcement this morning, I was interested by the ideas that Next Up Hero was tackling. Death really has become kind of pointless in modern gaming, so why not turn that into a game mechanic? That it was aiming at being a beat-'em...