Watching the trailer for Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic during the Frosty Games Fest, my first thought was of Dread Delusion, the indie micro-Morrowind. Then the combat started and I remembered Felvidek, the RPG set in early modern Hungary. But overall, I was reminded of the psychedelic historical movie A Field in England. If it's not clear, these are all top-notch things to bring to mind.This is a first-person RPG...

The classic life sim begins with you inheriting property—a farm or a shop that you take over in a legal and above-board fashion. Innkeep does not begin like that. As the trailer revealed at the Frosty Games Fest shows, Innkeep opens with you walking through the door of a tavern in time to see its owner's head leave his shoulders. The customers, a gang of tomb robbers, essentially bully you...

Quickly turn a jumble of grey and yellow boxes into a bright green winning row with our help on today's Wordle. Keep it simple with a browse through our tips, give yourself a guide with our brand new clue for the June 8 (1450) puzzle if you like, or treat yourself to a lightning fast win with today's answer. However you get to the end, we're just happy to help...

In the southern hemisphere the Summer Game Fest is a winter event. The Frosty Game Fest exists as a counterpoint—highlighting more than 50 games, both new and upcoming, from Australia and New Zealand. Or as the show's tagline puts it: "COOL SH*T FROM ANZ." And you better pronounce it zed.Enjoying a world premiere at this year's Frosty Game Fest was Apothecary of City X, a sci-fi strategy-simulation where you are...

WTF: Waifu Tactical Force, a real game that was shown at the Future Games Show today, is a movement shooter where each win lets you earn the things you need to unlock new characters (as in, waifus) and upgrade your "waifu-run Mother Base" for new perks to use on missions and in 3v3 shooter matches."Each system feeds the next: shoot to build, build to upgrade, upgrade to dominate. Wrapped in...

When Scum launched into early access it made quite a stir: the hardcore multiplayer survival game had some pretty deep systems that simulated calories and carbs, body fat and muscle mass, and even kept track of each of your teeth.Scum was probably more notorious for the fact that you could poop. Gross, yes, but also funny. Throw in cannibalism and masks made from human skin, and Scum quickly became Devolver...

Firefighting is cool, and dangerous, and there's lots of neat gear, plus you get to saw holes in houses, so it's obvious that there should be a Farming Simulator-esque game about everyday heroes doing their thing.That's the pitch behind Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, a four player co-op sim where you'll run a fire department in the American Midwest in charge of stopping all manner of fires. It's primed to release this...

"The river is a god, and they killed her" is a hell of a way to start off a trailer, but that's how things get rolling in the new video for All Will Rise, which despite sounding like some sort of supernatural thriller is in fact a "narrative courtroom deck-builder" about ordinary people holding the wealthy and powerful to account for their actions.A trailer revealed during today's Wholesome Direct showcase...

Dune: Awakening's sandworms aren't just scary, they're the most brutally punishing feature of Funcom's new survival MMO. When you get eaten by a sandworm, you permanently lose all your stuff. Weapons, armor, tools, gear, your entire inventory gets swallowed up when Shai-Hulud sucks you down, and you can't go back and recover it. Even your vehicle is gone forever.That's why crossing the desert gaps between regions is so harrowing: the...

Gecko Gods has released its first demo as part of the Wholesome Direct alongside showcasing a brand new trailer for the reptile adventure, and as someone who has kept an eye on the development of this game since 2021 I could not be more thrilled.It's been a while since we've received any sort of update on Gecko Gods, and a lot of my excitement probably stems from the fact the...