V Rising Review is Now Live! (Patreon)

A new review is live! V Rising appears to have surprised the world with its early access launch popularity, but as a fan of the developers, I've been looking forward to this one for a while. Stunlock's a studio that's been making phenomenal games for a solid decade now, but they've just never managed to find the popularity to keep those games running.

And V Rising is the most Stunlock game I could possibly imagine, a game that attempts to combat those popularity woes by jumping onto the survival crafter bandwagon while still coming at the genre with their own natural inclinations. That means that V RIsing is a very different beast from most games in its genre, one that ditches a lot of its more simulationist aspects while introducing the best, tightest combat I've ever seen in a genre that typically features it almost as an afterthought.

Coming up next, I think I'm going to take a belated look at Citizen Sleeper, another surprise indie hit from the past few months. And looking beyond that, it's already going to be time for another quarterly wrapup soon!