Val Hull

Val Hull

Resident role-playing RPG game expert. Knows where trolls and paladins come from. You must fight for your right to gather your party before venturing forth.

Monomyth Updates, $33,731 and Counting

With slightly over two weeks left in Rat Tower Software’s Kickstarter campaign for their first-person dungeon crawler Monomyth, the project is currently sitting at $33,731 pledged. And with the game now essentially funded, its campaign updates (#8 and #9) mostly…

Solasta: Crown of the Magister Useful Mods

If you’re someone who enjoys spicing things up with some user-created content, this PC Gamer article lists a few notable feature-focused mods for Tactical Adventures’ Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and then points us in the direction of some fun…

Stoneshard Update – Global Map

City of Gold, the next big early access update for Ink Stains Games’ turn-based RPG Stoneshard, is now scheduled to go live in October. Perhaps most notably, this update is going to expand the game’s global map and completely overhaul…

Wartales – Work & Professions

This week’s developer blog/Q&A for Shiro Games’ upcoming mercenary RPG Wartales sheds some light on the game’s profession system that will allow your troops to master some useful non-combat skills ranging from cooking to mining. And if you’d like to…

Path of Exile: Expedition – Creating the Kalguurans

While I’m sure most of us are eagerly awaiting the eventual release of Path of Exile 2, the original game keeps getting its regular content updates. And if you’d like to know what’s currently going on in the ever-expanding world…

Tainted Grail: Conquest Patch v1.1 Available on the Beta Branch

Tainted Grail: Conquest, Awaken Realms Digital’s Arthurian deckbuilding RPG, left early access earlier this year. And right now, the game’s developers are getting ready to launch its first major update, featuring two endless modes and some weekly events, among all…

Drakensang: The Dark Eye – Matt Chat

I’ve always heard good things about Drakensang: The Dark Eye, and the ruleset it’s based on. And yet, to this day, I haven’t played any of the Drakensang games, and my familiarity with The Dark Eye ruleset begins and ends…

Phoenix Point – Ambrose Balance Update Available

Ahead of the upcoming Corrupted Horizons DLC for Phoenix Point, Snapshot Games has put together a new balance update with the primary aim of reducing the dreaded mid-late game tedium and addressing the game’s overall difficulty. You’ll find the patch…

Hades – Central Ideas

Supergiant Games’ award-winning action-RPG Hades will be coming to PlayStation 4 and 5 on August 13, 2021. And ahead of that release, the studio’s creative director Greg Kasavin brings us this PlayStation Blog post where he talks about the central…