If you told me before playing How to Fish that I would spend so much time thinking about weapon progression in a fishing game, I probably would have laughed. I have played plenty of fishing simulators, survival games, co-op sandboxes, and ridiculous physics-driven indies, but Dazed Games somehow manages to combine all of those ideas…
If you have spent more than five minutes with How to Fish, you already know this is not the kind of fishing game where you sit quietly beside a lake, sip imaginary coffee, and admire the sunset. This game is absolute chaos. You catch a fish, drag it onto your boat, and then proceed to…
I’ll be honest: How to Fish is probably one of the strangest fishing games I’ve played in a long time, and that is exactly why I’ve been having so much fun with it. Dazed Games took the relaxing fishing formula, threw it into a blender, added ridiculous physics, giant sea monsters, firearms, explosions, and co-op…
There are a lot of fishing games out there, and after playing more games than I care to admit, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect from the genre. Cast a line, wait for a bite, reel in a fish, sell it, upgrade your equipment, repeat. Maybe there is a…
Zombie Army 4: Dead War is one of those co-op shooters I keep coming back to when I want something simple: grab a weapon, join a friend, and turn a street full of undead into a pile of limbs and spent ammunition. The shooting still feels great, the campaign is surprisingly fun with a full…
If there is one thing I have learned from spending way too many hours with survival games, it is that the ocean is almost never a relaxing place. Give me a beautiful tropical island, a submarine, some weird creatures lurking in the darkness, and a mystery involving a missing relative, and I am probably going…
If there’s one thing I love about PC gaming right now, it’s being able to take surprisingly ambitious games almost anywhere. The Steam Deck has turned everything from massive RPGs to tiny indie experiments into potential couch, bed, or travel games. So when Nautus was revealed as a strange mix of tropical base management, underwater…
If there is one thing I love about indie games, it is watching a studio take a ridiculous-sounding idea and somehow turn it into something you desperately want to play. Nautus: Echoes from Below immediately feels like that kind of project. Magic Design Studios, the team behind Have a Nice Death and Unruly Heroes, has…
If you have been following upcoming indie games, Nautus is one of those projects that can sneak up on you and suddenly become impossible to ignore. Magic Design Studios, the team behind Have a Nice Death, is taking a very different swing this time: instead of throwing players into a stylish roguelike nightmare, the studio…
If there is one thing that instantly gets my attention as a longtime gamer, it is a game that takes a familiar idea and throws it into a completely different blender. Nautus caught me exactly that way. On paper, it sounds like an odd combination of cozy island management, underwater exploration, creature hunting, submarine customization,…
