Video game
How many nights have ended with me muttering “well, I started another run”? You die, you try again, you get a little bit further. That loop is somehow impossible to put down — and that, right there, is the essence of the roguelike. The genre is in the middle of an unprecedented boom. Balatro took…
Video game
“So what racing game should I play next?” If you’ve ever asked yourself that, you’ve probably also stared at the sheer number of options and groaned. “Racing game” covers a ridiculous amount of ground, from pro-grade simulators that model every bit of tire slip to party games where crashing is half the fun. Pick wrong…
Video game
“Aren’t Western games just brutally hard?” If that thought has kept you away, now’s the time to turn the page. Across the 2010s and into the 2020s, Western-made games evolved into something on a whole other level. Deep storytelling, jaw-dropping graphics, and enough content to sink hundreds of hours into—they speak a different design language…
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The Famicom (NES) launched in 1983. More than 40 years later, the games we still call classics are holding their value on the used market, and when someone streams one, younger viewers pile into the chat with “wait, this actually rules.” So what exactly is it that makes fun survive four decades? The answer is…
NEC
“Tengai Makyou II,” “Ys I & II,” “Castlevania: Rondo of Blood” — if just hearing those names makes your chest tighten a little, you’re not alone. The PC Engine, launched in 1987 as a joint venture between NEC Home Electronics and Hudson Soft (and known in the West as the TurboGrafx-16), was a genuine revolution:…
NINTENDO
The Super Famicom — known in the West as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) — launched on November 21, 1990. As Nintendo’s 16-bit successor to the Famicom, it arrived with the graphics, sound chip, and processing muscle to repaint the entire gaming landscape. Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest V, Street Fighter II — the SNES…
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“The Neo Geo was just way too expensive for me back then.” Plenty of you have that exact memory, I bet. SNK launched this hardware in 1990, and a single cartridge averaged somewhere around $196–$261. The original console itself cost $379, making it a true “look but don’t touch” dream machine. Even so, the visual…
Sega
The Dreamcast: Sega’s legendary console, unleashed in 1998. Whether you played it back in the day or only know it by name and never got your hands on one, 2026 is not too late to jump in. If anything, some of its charms are easier to appreciate now than they were back then. This was…
Steam
“There are way too many games on Steam and I have no idea what to buy.” If that sounds like you, this article has you covered. The SpotGeeks editorial team has hand-picked 50+ Steam games we actually played and genuinely loved, sorted by genre and by what you’re looking for. Masterpieces, all-time classics, hidden gems,…
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“Is there anything out there harder than Dark Souls?” — every Soulslike fan has asked that question at least once. The answer is yes. Several games, in fact. The SpotGeeks editorial team played every single one of them, then graded them against our own criteria to build this 2026 edition of the Soulslike difficulty ranking….
