Steven Mills

5 days ago | outputlag.com | Steven Mills

You know that feeling when you boot up Path of Exile or Diablo and think, “Man, I wish I could get that endgame rush without investing 50 hours”? Well, Brazilian developer Rogue Snail heard you loud and clear. Their upcoming Hell Clock asks a simple but brilliant question: What if an entire ARPG league only took 20 minutes?

5 days ago | outputlag.com | Steven Mills |Steven Mills

It’s probably no surprise, but The Midnight Walk isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. It’s weird, it’s emotional, and the argument could certainly be made that at times it barely qualifies as a traditional game. But after spending six hours wandering through this clay-sculpted nightmare with my PSVR2 headset on, I can’t stop thinking about it.

6 days ago | outputlag.com | Steven Mills

Remember when platformers had that perfect mix of charm and challenge? When pixelated heroes had real personality and every jump felt earned? That’s exactly what developer The Dude Games is aiming to bring back with Dinopunk: The Cacops Adventure, and honestly, it’s about time. You play as Cacops, a small amphibious dinosaur living in a world that feels like the 80s had a baby with Jurassic Park.

3 weeks ago | outputlag.com | Steven Mills

Welcome to Output Lag. The purpose of this post is to describe exactly what Output Lag is, what I hope it will become, and what I can promise it won’t be. This is going to be a bit long. Over the last few years, the landscape of both the journalism and video game industries has gone through monumental changes that have, more or less, changed things completely.

3 weeks ago | outputlag.com | Steven Mills

At its core, Conquest Dark takes the fast-paced fun combat of ARPGs, weaves in a lot of different roguelike elements, and wraps it all up in Vampire Survivors-style overarching gameplay and progression. Usually when a game tries to mash so many different genres together into one, it ends up sacrificing at least one of the genres along the way. But developer Eldritch Sword Games has managed to keep all three genres entertaining and the overall experience a worthwhile one.