RICK LANE × HOODED HORSE

Rick Lane's Hooded Horse coverage, across 9 games.

11 articles across 9 Hooded Horse games. Each row keeps the game cover so you can tell which title it's about.

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25 APR

1 piece

PC Gamer·25 Apr

Menace's first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: 'We have done away with it'

newsonMenace

14 MAR

1 piece

PC Gamer·14 Mar

Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'

newsonThrowback

21 FEB

1 piece

PC Gamer·21 Feb

Heart of the Machine, the strategy game that lets you be the fun kind of evil AI, leaves early access in March with two possible endings: 'One is focussed on committing ALL the war crimes'

newsonHeart of the Machine

11 JAN

1 piece

PC Gamer·11 Jan

Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources

newsonManor Lords

10 JAN

1 piece

PC Gamer·10 Jan

If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access

newsonTerra Invicta

5 OCT 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·5 Oct 2025

Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'

newsonManor Lords

12 JUL 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·12 Jul 2025

Norland's 'big summer update' is even larger than March's 'damn big update', introducing a politics system, a new economy and more authentically medieval buildings to the Crusader Kings-inspired colony sim

newsonNorland

5 JUL 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·5 Jul 2025

Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'

newsonManor Lords

6 APR 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·6 Apr 2025

Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'

newsonAgainst the Storm

5 APR 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·5 Apr 2025

Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators of XCOM's Long War mod, just got a massive update that adds exofighters, improved diplomacy, and 'advanced weapons' for its alien menace

newsonTerra Invicta

23 MAR 2025

1 piece

PC Gamer·23 Mar 2025

Medieval colony sim Norland is getting a 'damn big update' that completely overhauls the game's mechanics: 'We're rolling out some radical changes to the core gameplay'

newsonMedieval: Total War