Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

If you want to understand modern action games, looking at Dark Souls and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will get you much of the way there. More than any other games, these two titles have defined ...

“Soulslike” is a perfectly apt word to describe all the games that borrow ideas from FromSoftware’s modern school of design. It’s something that’s here to stay, and when I play something like ...

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is a 'soulsvania' — a marriage of Dark Souls-inspired mechanics and combat with the trademark ability-gated exploration and platforming of metroidvania games. To ...