I'm not here to convince you that Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is anything more than that name implies, but if you think you'd get a few laughs from sending thousands of mishmashed warriors into battle and watching the chaos unfold, the S...

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...

Ever since I first spent a month with Train Sim World, I've had a hankering for more games featuring trains. They're just so serene, and in 2020, serenity is something we all could use a bit more of. The Train Sim games are great, but ...

We built walls from blades of grass. The spiders tore them down. We constructed weapons and went to battle. The spiders defeated us with little effort. We fled to a new home. The spiders just followed us. Honestly, the spiders in Grounded ...

All of my favorite survival games tend to have an unspeakable horror to keep me on my toes, and Grounded – a shrunken-down solo/co-op adventure from RPG powerhouse Obsidian – is no exception. Even if you're the kind of person wh...

As Obsidian so poignantly points out, if you're waiting for the biggest game of the year, look no further than Cyberpunk 2077. Grounded, however, is the smallest. This new trailer shows off a lot of the arachnophobic Honey, I Shrunk The Ki...

Easy Day Studios has released a new trailer for its sandbox skateboarding title Skater XL. The video showcases three brand new locations, all created by community members, that are available now on PC and will be arriving alongside the cons...

Before today, I thought that Grounded, a shrunken-kids survival game from the RPG powerhouse Obsidian, had decent potential. It's not exactly the studio's bread and butter, but the pitch – a solo/co-op adventure in which you'll chop d...

Easy Day Studios has announced that its sandbox skateboarding simulator, Skater XL, still needs a little more tweaking before it's ready to leave Early Access and hit the retail rails. As such, Skater XL Ver. 1.0 will now launch on PS4, PC,...

A few weeks out from the June 16 Steam Early Access launch, we've got a fresh look at Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a cathartic game about slicing derelict spaceships to extract their precious innards so you can pay down a billion-credit debt. I'...

Combining a beloved barnyard animal with unbelievable physics proved to be a million-dollar idea for the developers of Goat Simulator. Even if it only provided a slight chuckle and several minutes of entertainment, the gif-able nature ...

Easy Day Studios has announced that sandbox skateboarding sim Skater XL will leave Early Access on July 7, 2020, bringing its host of famous skaters, locations, and brands to PC and consoles. Players will be able to step into the scuffed-up...

Terraria's Journey's End update isn't just rekindling the tireless sandbox game with new items (loads and loads of new items), it's also adding Journey Mode – an alternate, player-choice-driven way to play. When it launches for PC on ...

Riot Games has an answer to Minecraft and Roblox, and it's called Hytale. The creator of League of Legends and Valorant announced that it has acquired Hypixel Studios, the team behind Hytale, a bound-to-be-huge sandbox RPG that's scheduled ...

It's been ages since some of us last explored the sandbox world of Terraria, but that might change next month when Journey's End launches on May 16, 2020, for PC. The update is a long time coming, but it's a major addition – I'm talki...

In today's contest we've got PSVR copies of Paper Beast to give out! Virtual reality has come a long way since the days of the Virtual Boy. Why'd I choose that? Because that's sadly what I think is the general impression people get when the...

Eric Chahi, the creator of Another World, is coming out with an ecosystem simulation game about origami creatures for PlayStation VR. Paper Beast has a story mode – you can alter the terrain and weather, not unlike a god game, to solv...

It's a pleasant surprise to hear that Hardspace: Shipbreaker is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after its Steam Early Access run starts this summer. In the sci-fi sim game, you play as a salvager who's working to pay off a debt by stra...

In a cruel Monkey's Paw twist of fate, Commander Shepard and company have finally made their way to the Nintendo Switch. However, it's not in the long-requested remaster of the original Mass Effect trilogy. It's in a Minecra...

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has narrowed down its launch window to a launch day, a moment that's many, many long years in the making. The sprawling medieval RPG is releasing on March 31, 2020. This should come as no surprise to Mount &...

During last December's stacked State of Play presentation, Sony dropped a trailer for a strange and esoteric-looking VR title, Paper Beast. Now developer Pixel Reef is peeling back the layers on this stylistic release, with a new trailer sh...

Maybe you don't need another survival-focused sandbox game in your life right now. To be honest, I don't either! But every so often I'll want to scratch that itch, and The Survivalists has potential. It's a shipwrecked "survival-lite" game ...

When it comes to Minecraft, the 2010s are leaving the exact same way they entered: With Mojang's sandbox builder as hot as blocky lava. Time has not yet begun to carve away at the phenomenon of Minecraft. YouTube has just released a year i...

A year after it first launched in Japan, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is finally getting a PC port. In July, it came to PS4 and Switch in North America and Europe. At the time, CJ gave it a hearty recommendation, but not quite the standing ...

Square Enix is giving Dragon Quest Builders 2 fence-sitters a chance to play the game for a matter of "hours" with a new Jumbo Demo that's out on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Steam. The demo doesn't just span the introductory Isle of...