PC games

Roman-like: A Review of We Who Are About to Die

There are a few things someone needs to know about me to get my interest: If it involves Rome, or is a Roguelike, I will pay attention to you, like a cat hearing a can opener. So when Rob...

Gotham Knights Review: The Kids Are Alright; The Game Design Is Not

What’s a Batman game without Batman? I’ve been stewing over various formulations of that for some ten years. I got into Batman comics in the Nineties; I didn’t hide from all the dumb stuff that they did there. I embraced...

Darktide Closed Beta: Goonhammer’s First Impressions

After a long week trapped in an industrial labyrinth, fighting off corruption and hordes of heretics, we were finally able to escape the Goonhammer Corporate Offices and spend the weekend playing the closed beta of Darktide - here are our hot takes!

Immortality – An FMV Contender for Game of the Year

This article will contain spoilers, general and specific, for Immortality. There will be another spoiler warning when specific story discussion begins. Immortality is pretty close to being my game of the year. And I was pretty sure that selection was...

Spider-Man Remastered: The Goonhammer Review

Spider-Man is a great game when you focus on its core conceit and core promise: That you get to play as Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and webswing through a full, if not one-to-one recreation of the island of Manhattan and...

In Retrospect: In Retrospect: A Retrospective

“Are you prepared to travel back into your memories and tell me about your life, in retrospect? Craft your own story and gameplay based on which collectibles you focus on! Health, wealth, love, education, creativity, or spirituality? What direction...

Stoneshard: A Not-Quite D&D Fourth Edition Game You Should Check Out

The worst thing about Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition is that we didn’t get a video game out of it. There were a lot of reasons for that -- much of it was timing, some of it was plain...

Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters: The Goonhammer Review

If you've been following along with Goonhammer's preview coverage of Complex Games' Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters, you'd probably pick up on our general positive vibes regarding the game. From our previews we found it to be beautiful, fun to play,...

Gunum Game Review: Escape Velocity Nova

Welcome back to GOONHAMMER ’02, where we look back at the games and media that we loved 20 years ago. Today Gunum is talking about Escape Velocity Nova, which was released in 2002 and could be seen as one...

Total War Warhammer 3: The Goonhammer Review

For those of you who have been following my articles on this game series - in particular my first impressions article - you know that I'm very excited about this release. Creative Assembly bringing the Warhammer universe to life...