Dominic Tarason
The product of a wasted youth, wasted prime and getting into wasted middle age, Dominic Tarason is a freelance writer, occasional indie PR guy and professional techno-hermit seen in many strange corners of the internet and seldom in reality. Based deep in the Welsh hinterlands where no food delivery dares to go, videogames provide a gritty, realistic escape from the idyllic views and fresh country air. If you're looking for something new and potentially very weird to play, feel free to poke him on Twitter. He's almost sociable, most of the time.
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles review: New pair of shoes
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No Whammies Astrea raises the deckbuilder stakes with gambling tension.

A seemingly innocent puzzle game is hiding what might be the most subversive, fourth-wall-breaking adventure since Undertale
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Stranger days Void Stranger is a boundless puzzle-box in Game Boy disguise.

Retro FPS Amid Evil borrowed a famous anime attack to create one of the most satisfying videogame punches ever
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Back in Black The follow-up to one of 2019's best FPSes is a punchy, focused shot of fantasy boomer shooter fun.

Homeworld 3's roguelike-inspired War Games mode is perfect for strategists in a hurry
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Space race Time for a change of pace.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew review: superb stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming
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Shiver me timbers! Superb squad-based stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming.

Jagged Alliance 3 review: Back in business
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Tropic Plunder After 24 years, Jagged Alliance is back to take a shot at the squad tactics crown.

20 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Summer Sale ends
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💎💎💎 20 games under $20 that you've likely never heard of.

7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
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First! Unloved innovations across gaming history have a way of coming back around years later.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review: For all its many flaws, this is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure
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Semi-precious This stealth adventure has its charms, despite a fractured identity.

Firmament review: A graphically gorgeous descendant of Myst
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MYSTIFYING A beautiful but flawed new adventure from the creators of Myst.

Ravenlok review: Beautiful, polished and painfully hollow
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Jabberwonky Ravenlok is a beautiful action-adventure interpretation of Alice In Wonderland, but its qualities only run skin deep.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor—Everything we know
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Re-ordered All the holocron-worthy info on Jedi: Survivor, Respawn's Star Wars sequel.

Terra Nil review
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Be Kind, rewind More solitaire than strategy, Terra Nil is still a soothing, satisfying and educational environmentalist puzzler.

15 hidden gems to grab before the end of the Steam Spring Sale
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Deals, deals All games from the last year that didn't get the attention they deserved.

The Doom mod of the year just dropped in a mysterious forum post, and goes so hard we don't even want to spoil what comes next
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MyHouse of Leaves "Last August I lost a good childhood friend [...] Among his old belongings was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school."

This free-to-play RPG is a gory road-trip through one of indie gaming's darkest worlds
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The Tragic Schoolbus Dark, complex and rewarding—Limbus Company is as hardcore as mobile RPGs get.

Phantom Brigade review: An exciting concept begging for structural refinements
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20-20 Foresight A bare-bones foundation for future mech wars.

Like a Dragon: Ishin! review: Old-school Yakuza for better or worse
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Slash Fiction Yakuza, but as a period drama.

6 games that had a huge impact on PC gaming, but are rarely celebrated today
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Lost Expeditions The unsung trailblazers of PC gaming history.

Fans of survival sim Rain World have spent 5 years making an expansion so big, it's practically a sequel
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Rising Damp Rain World: Downpour, out now, dramatically expands the original game while also making it much more approachable.

One Piece Odyssey review
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Cruisy An easygoing JRPG that's the equivalent of an anime filler arc.

15 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
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Deals All of these games came out in 2022 and deserve a spot in your library.

2023's looking like another banger year for deckbuilders
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In the cards Here are 11 deckbuilders (out of many, many more on the way) to keep an eye on.
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