Dominic Tarason
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United Kingdom
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Past articles by Dominic:
7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
Unloved innovations across gaming history have a way of coming back around years later. → Read More
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review
This stealth adventure has its charms, despite a fractured identity. → Read More
Firmament review
A beautiful but flawed new adventure from the creators of Myst. → Read More
Ravenlok review
Ravenlok is a beautiful action-adventure interpretation of Alice In Wonderland, but its qualities only run skin deep. → Read More
Terra Nil review
More solitaire than strategy, Terra Nil is still a soothing, satisfying and educational environmentalist puzzler. → Read More
Like a Dragon: Ishin! review
The Yakuza series (now Like A Dragon, matching its Japanese naming) has always had a flair for the dramatic, featuring digitized actors, expressive facial capture and stories befitting a good mid-budg → Read More
6 games that had a huge impact on PC gaming, but are rarely celebrated today
For every entry on PC Gamer's list of the 50 most important PC games, there are a dozen other less-celebrated trailblazers that don't get as much love as The Secret of Monkey Island or Doom → Read More
Fans of survival sim Rain World have spent 5 years making an expansion so big, it's practically a sequel
Rain World: Downpour, out now, dramatically expands the original game while also making it much more approachable. → Read More
One Piece Odyssey review
An easygoing JRPG that's the equivalent of an anime filler arc. → Read More
15 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
All of these games came out in 2022 and deserve a spot in your library. → Read More
2023's looking like another banger year for deckbuilders
Here are 11 deckbuilders (out of many, many more on the way) to keep an eye on. → Read More
This JRPG platformer's amateurish art hides one of 2022's best and wildest sleeper hits
Astlibra Revision looks bizarre, but when you play it, you'll see why it's become a huge hit on Steam. → Read More
Levitation is a fantastic Half-Life: Alyx mod that apes Valve’s style almost too well
It feels like a remixed encore of Alyx's original adventure—great fun, but I found myself wishing for something new. → Read More
11 obscure PC ports that time forgot
Alchemical experiments from the era where console and PC went together like oil and water. → Read More
Signalis review
One of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years. → Read More
Bonelab review
Half-Life Alyx never truly wowed me back in 2020, because Boneworks already had its hooks in me. While clearly lower budget and wobbly in places, I fell in love with its simulationist approach to VR. → Read More
Signalis is shaping up to be a beautiful, fragmented sci-fi nightmare
Space survival horror that seems familiar, until it surprises you. → Read More
Cultic might be the year's grungiest retro FPS
This spiritual successor to '90s classic Blood delivers the goods. And the dynamite. → Read More
12 upcoming games without names that we're excited about
Twelve games we know exist—we just haven’t been properly introduced to them yet. → Read More
Freedom Planet 2 feels like a long-lost Sega Saturn gem
The Sonic-inspired platformer evolves beyond its Mega Drive inspiration. → Read More