Author: Obsidian

Some games announce their identity the moment they begin. Magin: The Rat Project Stories, the dark fantasy deckbuilder from Polish studio The Rat Project and published by Daedalic Entertainment, is one of those games. Within minutes of starting you’re inhabiting a world that feels genuinely cold and alive — medieval grime meets industrial machinery, fear and desire made literal through a magic system called Essence, and two protagonists who feel like they’ve already lived difficult lives before you arrived. It’s a compelling opening that makes the game’s subsequent unevenness feel all the more frustrating. You follow two central characters across…

From the creators of Road 96 comes something genuinely unprecedented in narrative gaming. Tides of Tomorrow doesn’t just ask you to make choices that matter—it creates a living tapestry where your decisions directly impact every player who comes after you. This ambitious “Story-Link” system transforms what could have been another choice-driven adventure into a fascinating social experiment wrapped in stunning plasticpunk aesthetics. A World Drowning in Consequences Tides of Tomorrow presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of ecological collapse. The ocean planet of Ellend is choking on plastic pollution, with humanity clinging to makeshift floating settlements that evoke the desperate ingenuity…

From the award-winning creators of Duskers and A Virus Named TOM comes something genuinely unprecedented in strategy gaming. Below the Crown takes the ancient game of chess and transforms it into a roguelike dungeon crawler that feels both familiar and revolutionary. What sounds like an impossible mashup on paper becomes one of 2026’s most compelling and innovative strategy experiences. The Emperor’s Golden Gambit The premise is deceptively simple: you’re a wizard tasked by the Emperor to venture into mysterious dungeons and return with gold. Armed with a single Rook and whatever spells you can muster, you’ll navigate procedurally generated depths…

Every now and then, an indie game quietly drops onto the Steam storefront that perfectly captures the magic of a bygone era. If you grew up spending your weekends cross-legged in front of a CRT television playing the Nintendo GameCube or PlayStation 2, developer Studio Pixanoh has cooked up exactly what you are looking for. Released last week, Town of Zoz is a colorful, cel-shaded action-adventure game that seamlessly blends top-down, Zelda-style combat with the cozy agricultural simulation of games like Story of Seasons (formerly Harvest Moon). It is a game overflowing with personality, gorgeous anime-inspired cutscenes, and a shockingly…

There is a very specific sub-genre of indie games that exists purely to generate chaotic, screaming fits of laughter between a group of friends over Discord. Games like Lethal Company, Phasmophobia, and Content Warning have all mastered the art of balancing genuine tension with absolute comedic absurdity. Now, developer FuzzyBot has entered the ring with We Gotta Go. Released just a few days ago by publisher Mad Mushroom, this online co-op game takes the haunted mansion survival formula and injects it with an unrelenting, deeply juvenile sense of bathroom humor. The premise is as simple as it is ridiculous: you…

A Reckless Crossing into Early Access The “Age of Piracy” is a setting that gaming seems to struggle with constantly. For every masterpiece like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, we get a half-baked, heavily monetized live-service disappointment. When indie developer Kraken Express announced Windrose—promising a massive, procedurally generated PvE survival game with deep base building and brutal naval combat—it almost sounded too good to be true. But having spent a ridiculous amount of time in the recent demo, and now diving headfirst into the Early Access launch that dropped earlier this week, I can confidently say the hype is real.…