Whether you're here for the penguins (please read that in Benedict Cumberbatch's voice) or you're just sticking to the ongoing free content updates, December 8 will be a busy day for Planet Zoo players. The next slice of DLC for Planet Zoo...

A grown man probably shouldn't be so interested in a game where all you do is play with toy trains, but I never had a wooden train set growing up. We skipped over that staple of childhood in favor of Hot Wheels tracks. At the time, I didn't...

Koei Tecmo has announced a brand new entry in its long-running horse-racing franchise, Winning Post. The ninth entry in the steeplechase simulator will launch in Japan in March 2021. Debuting way back in 1993 on the Sharp X68000, the Winnin...

In today's contest you can win three months of beta access to Dual Universe! You know what sucks about our universe? Everything! With all the political bickering, rampant viruses, and overall sucktitude of this joint, wouldn't you like to j...

This week's Epic Games Store giveaway mixes the familiar with the new. Until next Thursday, November 26, you can nab Elite Dangerous and The World Next Door. If you've always thought about trying your hand at exploring the vastness of space...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been a long time coming, and even though it's dropping in a super crowded release week, I'm thrilled to see this spunky rice-growing action-RPG platformer finally come out. As a laid-back agricultural sim with m...

"My kingdom for a horse." King Richard III would've done well to live 500 years later because Kingdom is free and it comes with a horse. Humble is doing that thing again where it gives away games for keepsies. This time it's Raw Fury's...

In today's contest you can win a Cartel Tycoon ultimate prize pack, including a copy of the game, a Razer accessory bundle, and a chance to appear in the game! Kiddos, we've got a doozy today! Publisher tinyBuild is gearing up for the relea...

We are less than a month away from the launch of the Xbox Series X/S, and while Microsoft might not have the big, tentpole releases its competition will have, that doesn't mean early adopters will be left with nothing to play. There is a be...

Even though Journey's End was supposed to cap off Terraria, fans have more content to rally around today. Re-Logic released update 1.4.1 on PC, and it's been dubbed the "journey's actual end." The free update adds "pieces that were not qui...

Stardew Valley is such a watershed game, that absolutely any small addition can get fans to salivate. Banana trees? The internet goes wild. Moving your bed? I need to carve out time in my schedule when 1.5 hits just for this. It's crazy how...

Mind Scanners is a point-and-click simulation game about "treating" the populace of a retro-futuristic megacity built in a crater, and it's worth watching if you've been meaning to fill the Papers, Please void with something fresh. At a gl...

Frontier Developments re-released 2004's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and the Epic Games Store today, and if you're down for some management-sim escapism, the latter is free. You have until Thursday, October 1 to add R...

Since the release of Totes the Goat in 2015, developer Atooi and its founder, Jools Watsham, have really made the most out of the game's simple, but lovely, voxel graphics. The same art style has found its way into subsequent Atooi tit...

As the seasons change, Ooblets is changing too. Err, growing actually. It's nearing a major update that will add the first new region since the game launched in Early Access in July. This new area is called Nullwhere, and it's Hallowee...

I scream, you scream, we all scream forever. In a year as exhausting as 2020, it'll be nice to chill out with a comfy, familiar, cathartic theme park management sim game like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. Developer Frontier (through its new Fron...

In today's giveaway, we're handing out 125 Steam keys for giant robot strategy title Volta-X! Who here likes giant robots? What about kaiju? *counts hands* Yeah, I thought so. Well, you're all in luck! The first 125 people who claim a key g...

Microsoft is calling Microsoft Flight Simulator the "biggest game launch in Xbox Game Pass for PC history," and there's a concrete figure to back up that hazy milestone: over a million unique players. The most popular airport? JFK. The long...

Stardew Valley is packed enough on its own: so much so that I haven't really sought out the comfort of mods. But the modding scene has been incredibly robust ever since the game hit the market, to the point where just about anyone can whip ...

Life finds a way to bring simulation games to Nintendo Switch. The latest port? Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition, a bundle of the base game and every bit of story and dino DLC including the nostalgia-stoking Return to Jurassic Par...

A lot of people have run into a content wall in Ooblets. The Early Access launch was a fine first taste -- an introduction to all the farming, collecting, socializing, and dancing that awaits us. It didn't last terribly long though, as...

Planet Zoo is adding several new animals with the Australia Pack on August 25, 2020. The koala, red kangaroo, dingo, southern cassowary, and eastern blue-tongued lizard – choose your beast. Cassowaries are intimidating and their eggs ...

I wasn't worried about how Planet Coaster: Console Edition would fare on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but if I had been, a recent live hands-off showing from Frontier would've helped convince me. The visual fidelity was there, and while I on...

In today's contest you can win Chroma Squad on Switch from Super Rare Games! I keep working with Super Rare Games because not only do they put awesome indie games on cartridges, but they're also super nice folks who really care about gaming...

I’ve been a merchant of a lot of things. The Elite series allowed me to be a space trader, Euro Truck Simulator let me try my hand at terrestrial trade, and Wall Street Kid had me trading stocks directly. Now it’s time for Merc...