REVIEW | BSG: SCATTERED HOPES | SHARP, SMART, INTENSE

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes understands the franchise better than many bigger licensed games ever managed. It does not treat Battlestar Galactica as a simple space-war skin, where ships explode, Cylons attack and the player moves from one clean objective to the next. Its real subject is pressure. The fleet is damaged, scattered and constantly exposed, and every decision feels like it belongs to a command structure already running out of time. That is...

PUBLISHED | I2.O7.IIO26

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REVIEW | ESOTERIC EBB | DISCO FANTASY WITH A D20 SOUL

A dead cleric, an exploded tea shop, a city preparing for elections, and a fantasy world that keeps laughing while quietly sharpening the knife. Esoteric Ebb does not arrive like a normal RPG, and that is probably the first reason it feels special. It does not open with a huge battlefield, a dramatic hero shot or a long cinematic telling the player that everything is important. It starts in a smaller, stranger place: a bad cleric wakes up in Norvik, a case needs solving, and the...

PUBLISHED | O1.O7.IIO26

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REVIEW | VENDIR: PLAGUE OF LIES | A HIDDEN CRPG SURPRISE

Some RPGs arrive loudly, with trailers, previews, critic quotes and enough noise to feel important before the player even enters the first town. Vendir: Plague of Lies does not have that kind of entrance. It sits in a quieter part of the RPG space, away from the obvious PC headlines, carrying the kind of old-school structure that can easily be missed if someone only follows the biggest releases. That is exactly why we decided to give it a proper pcdoorz review. Not because...

PUBLISHED | 29.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | THE ADVENTURES OF ELLIOT | CHARM WITH LIMITS

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales opens like a game that knows exactly what kind of memory it wants to wake up. A small hero, a strange world, warm light falling over pixel-shaped landscapes, old ruins waiting in the distance, and that familiar Square Enix feeling that something ancient is buried under every road. It has the shape of an old fantasy adventure, but the image is cleaner, brighter and more carefully dressed than the games it rememb...

PUBLISHED | 25.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE II | LATE, BUT NECESSARY

Some reviews arrive late because a game disappears quickly. This one arrives late for the opposite reason. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has been out for more than a year, the first wave of opinions has already passed, patches have had time to settle, players have argued about its systems, and the larger gaming calendar has moved on. Still, leaving this game without a proper pcdoorz review would feel wrong. Some titles are too important to be treated only...

PUBLISHED | 22.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | DAVE THE DIVER: IN THE JUNGLE | DIVE, SERVE, SMILE

Dave has always looked like a man who accidentally walked into a bigger game than he expected. That strange charm still carries In the Jungle, a content pack that pulls him away from the Blue Hole and drops him into a warmer, greener, busier place where freshwater, village life, grilling, quests, and small distractions begin to fight for the player’s attention. It is still Dave the Diver at heart, but the rhythm changes enough to make the return feel useful, not automa...

PUBLISHED | 22.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | TERRA INVICTA | BIG IDEAS, HARD CHOICES & DEEP SPACE

Some strategy games are built to entertain quickly. They give the player a clear loop, a clean tutorial, a few early victories and a smooth path toward feeling smart. This one is not built like that. This is a slow, demanding, complicated and sometimes exhausting grand strategy experience about humanity facing an alien arrival while failing to act like one united species. That is the part that makes it interesting. The invasion is not only a military problem. It is...

PUBLISHED | I5.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | GOTHIC 1 REMAKE | FAITHFUL, FLAWED & STILL GOTHIC

Gothic 1 Remake is a strange kind of return. Not because the original Gothic was ever easy to remake, but because the new version constantly stands between two different ideas of what a remake should be. On one side, it clearly wants to respect the 2001 cult RPG: the prison colony, the harsh social structure, the slow rise from nobody to somebody, the unfriendly world that does not roll out a carpet for the player. On the other side, it now arrives with modern...

PUBLISHED | O6.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | DIRECTIVE 8020 | IMMERSION FIRST, ACTION LATER

A cold corridor in deep space can still do more for me than half the louder horror games released in a year. Directive 8020 understands that at its best. It is not built around constant action, endless combat, or cheap noise. It works better when it slows down, locks the player inside narrow metal spaces, lets the ship breathe around the crew, and makes every quiet room feel like it may already be wrong. That kind of claustrophobic third-person sci-fi immersion...

PUBLISHED | OII.O6.IIO26

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REVIEW | 007 FIRST LIGHT | SHARP SPYCRAFT & SOFT TEXTURES

Bringing James Bond back to video games was never going to be as simple as handing him a pistol, a suit, and a few expensive locations. The real challenge was finding a playable identity that could respect the license without turning it into a simple Hitman reskin, a generic third-person shooter, or a museum piece built only for nostalgia. IO Interactive was always an interesting choice for the license, because the studio already understands controlled spaces, social...

PUBLISHED | II9.O5.IIO26

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