The colonial fantasy game many assumed to be a one and done effort is seemingly becoming even bigger than it already was. Hopefully they make it less boring this time.

A short and sweet distraction, Kill It With Fire is a quirky experiment in overreacting and pest control that’ll hold your attention for an hour or two.

Obsidian communications director Mike Dowling detailed how their study into arachnophobia resulted in the game featuring an options slider that you could use to transform spiders into harmless blobs of not-pure-terror-incarnate.

The spider - mankind’s most ancient and deadly nemesis. As a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, it’s time to fight back! Gather your arsenal and pursue the eight-legged menace on a journey across suburbia – although not necessarily in that order.

An action RPG set in an alternate timeline where the royals told the angry working class to go eat cogs, Steelrising has a neat twist to its plot. King Louis XVI may have an army of anarchy-busting automatons ready to lay the clockwork smackdown on the French people demanding justice and equality, but that’s where you come into play as Aegis, a former bodyguard robot who’ll fight back against the French monarchy’s legion of robots.

I don’t know whether a game has ever left me as personally divided as Greedfall has. After spending dozens of hours exploring and questing around the island or Teer Fradee I’m still unsure whether or not I actually like this game and I suppose because in my head it exists in two separate spaces: The mechanical and the narrative. In …

Various armies are sailing towards the new world, war is about to break out and the natives who first inhabited the land are about to find themselves caught in a bloody conflict that’ll require more than just some magic to win. It’s a story that we’ve seen unfold often enough in our own history, as Greedfall’s setup smacks of influences that range from its visuals being directly inspired by Baroque art to the core story that we were shown at E3 playing out like Pocahontas if Mel Gibson directed it.

Mars sucks man. Everyone wants to kill you, the surface is inhabited by stowaway wildlife from Australia that has hit the gym and resources are scarce. Good thing that then that you can ride the lightning.