video game review

Zenless Zone Zero 1.0 Review: Lights, Camera, Character Action

Releasing on the week of July 4th, MiHoYo’s newest F2P game, Zenless Zone Zero, popped onto people’s radars after a lengthy tease from the publisher and a fairly long period of radio silence following a few closed beta tests....

Fallen Aces Review: Hardboiled to Perfection

It was a humid and muggy night. Muggy, just like the face I made at my landlord when I told them the elevator was sticking again on the third floor. I sipped my sixth coffee of the night while...

Home Safety Hotline: Do You Have Hobbs in Your House? 

Analog horror aesthetics have been growing in popularity over the last few years, even if in a lot of cases, “analog” just tends to mean, “the concept of a VCR distortion is the scariest thing I can imagine,” rather...

Armored Core 6: The Goonhammer Review

After eleven years, From Software have blessed us with another entry into the Armored Core series, and it fucking rocks. Any worry that over a decade of producing games with the Souls formulae has dulled From Software's edge when...

REview: Resident Evil 4

Boy, do I fucking love Resident Evil. Ever since playing Code Veronica on my uncle’s PS1 (not the best start, but it was a start, damnit) and getting so scared I had to shut the game off and run to...

Goonhammer Indie Games Roundup: Steel Defier and Dungeon Drafters

Starting this week, we're doing a new series: Indie Games Round-up. In this series, we'll take a regular look at some of the smaller indie games that either hook us in or get sent our way and talk about...

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!

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...