Thomas Wilde: My latest indie-game column for @hard-drive.net is up. I've taken a look at THE TOWER ON THE BORDERLAND and passed the savings on to you. Sometimes I feel like modern indies are just a series of increasingly inscrutable subgenre tags. This is a Eurojank, Soulslike, survival horror action game.

My latest indie-game column for @hard-drive.net is up. I've taken a look at THE TOWER ON THE BORDERLAND and passed the savings on to you. Sometimes I feel like modern indies are just a series of increasingly inscrutable subgenre tags. This is a Eurojank, Soulslike, survival horror action game.

Game Night: Let’s Kill Some Dreams With ‘The Tower on the Borderland’hard-drive.net “Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil,” the late Terry Pratchett wrote. “Prayer, fasting, good works, and so…

Isn't survival horror action game a contradiction? It's either survival horror or action horror?

It's not like any of these terms have a firm definition. My primary thought here was that the game transitions into more of a shoot-'em-up once you've got the rifle.

Agreed, some games have both survival horror elements and action horror elements making it hard to give a give it a single genre. If you spend most of your time shooting the game leans towards action and I personally think it should be called an action horror with survival elements.

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