Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com
Veteran freelance games crit & PR. Hyped for indie games & mods. Bylines on RPS, PC Gamer, PCGamesN. Find my work, Steam curation & contact info below - He/Him
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Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
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Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
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Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com
· Apr 26
Dominic Tarason - Games Crit & PR
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Wow, I apparently cleared 10,000 followers!
You've all made a terrible mistake and are going to spend too much on obscure games!
I am terribly sorry, but relieved to see others suffering from my curse.
I also have a Steam curator page, and accept tips (which helps me find games). Details below:
You've all made a terrible mistake and are going to spend too much on obscure games!
I am terribly sorry, but relieved to see others suffering from my curse.
I also have a Steam curator page, and accept tips (which helps me find games). Details below:
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don't let anyone tell you different- this game rocks. they fixed so much through updates and the DLC weapons are fun as hell. best whip moveset of any game
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is $23.99 on Steam buff.ly/gojwj5o
US PSN buff.ly/8FmjWUv
Deck verified
also on PS+ Extra
US PSN buff.ly/8FmjWUv
Deck verified
also on PS+ Extra
February 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
don't let anyone tell you different- this game rocks. they fixed so much through updates and the DLC weapons are fun as hell. best whip moveset of any game
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One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @bobservo.bsky.social @stuartgipp.bsky.social @dark1x.bsky.social & @dominictarason.com commemorate 30 years of Duke Nukem 3D
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February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @bobservo.bsky.social @stuartgipp.bsky.social @dark1x.bsky.social & @dominictarason.com commemorate 30 years of Duke Nukem 3D
Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/148866...
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One of the Straftat brothers is making a movement game called VHOLUME and I'm afraid to say it has unbelievable amounts of sauce.
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 AM
One of the Straftat brothers is making a movement game called VHOLUME and I'm afraid to say it has unbelievable amounts of sauce.
Repeating that Peril is VERY cool. Amazing sense of scale and adventure, constantly switching tones.
My only real complaint is that on Normal and even Hard it can be a bit too easy. I'm no Quake god (Mazu's maps in QBJ3 obliterate me) but found Nightmare to be most comfortable for me here.
My only real complaint is that on Normal and even Hard it can be a bit too easy. I'm no Quake god (Mazu's maps in QBJ3 obliterate me) but found Nightmare to be most comfortable for me here.
Today, I've been poking around Peril. Y'know how Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is the biggest Quake community project? Peril, mostly the work of one person, is even bigger.
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Repeating that Peril is VERY cool. Amazing sense of scale and adventure, constantly switching tones.
My only real complaint is that on Normal and even Hard it can be a bit too easy. I'm no Quake god (Mazu's maps in QBJ3 obliterate me) but found Nightmare to be most comfortable for me here.
My only real complaint is that on Normal and even Hard it can be a bit too easy. I'm no Quake god (Mazu's maps in QBJ3 obliterate me) but found Nightmare to be most comfortable for me here.
Ha. Years ago, I got a bunch of pokemon promo booster packs in the post. But I don't play the pokemon TCG, so just put them on a storage shelf, still sealed.
I just looked up on Ebay UK how much they'd be worth and even lowballing it, they'd be worth £720+ now.
I just looked up on Ebay UK how much they'd be worth and even lowballing it, they'd be worth £720+ now.
February 9, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Ha. Years ago, I got a bunch of pokemon promo booster packs in the post. But I don't play the pokemon TCG, so just put them on a storage shelf, still sealed.
I just looked up on Ebay UK how much they'd be worth and even lowballing it, they'd be worth £720+ now.
I just looked up on Ebay UK how much they'd be worth and even lowballing it, they'd be worth £720+ now.
Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
Realized I hadn't seen the third season of Mob Psycho 100. Just finished the last episode.
That was a damn good show. And I love how much they embraced the squiggly, rough-edged aesthetic of the original comic.
That was a damn good show. And I love how much they embraced the squiggly, rough-edged aesthetic of the original comic.
February 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Realized I hadn't seen the third season of Mob Psycho 100. Just finished the last episode.
That was a damn good show. And I love how much they embraced the squiggly, rough-edged aesthetic of the original comic.
That was a damn good show. And I love how much they embraced the squiggly, rough-edged aesthetic of the original comic.
This screenshot is the OpenBOR scene in a nutshell. I mean, sure, why NOT have nearly 120 playable characters?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Fu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Fu...
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
This screenshot is the OpenBOR scene in a nutshell. I mean, sure, why NOT have nearly 120 playable characters?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Fu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Fu...
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Semi-related, a funny true fact is how Victor Ireland was a devout Jehovah’s Witness and, besides adding 8th grader sex jokes and jacking up difficulty, made absolutely sure not to ever say “demon” in any Working Designs game
There’s an old Usenet post of his calling SMT “evil”
There’s an old Usenet post of his calling SMT “evil”
current status:
making up a parallel world where JRPGs are right wing media and Christian households didn't find them objectionable
making up a parallel world where JRPGs are right wing media and Christian households didn't find them objectionable
February 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Semi-related, a funny true fact is how Victor Ireland was a devout Jehovah’s Witness and, besides adding 8th grader sex jokes and jacking up difficulty, made absolutely sure not to ever say “demon” in any Working Designs game
There’s an old Usenet post of his calling SMT “evil”
There’s an old Usenet post of his calling SMT “evil”
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Bought and finished Creature Kitchen last night. Absolutely adorable and charming game. One of the steam reviews calls it "ominous and whimsical" which I think is perfect. Well worth the price tag if you're looking for a cute bite-sized puzzler. store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...
Save 20% on Creature Kitchen on Steam
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.
store.steampowered.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Bought and finished Creature Kitchen last night. Absolutely adorable and charming game. One of the steam reviews calls it "ominous and whimsical" which I think is perfect. Well worth the price tag if you're looking for a cute bite-sized puzzler. store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...
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there's a vr port of the ms-dos version of ultima 4 and it goes hard as fuck sidequestvr.com/app/8127/ank...
ANKH VR on SideQuest Oculus Quest Games & Apps including AppLab Games ( Oculus App Lab )
ANKH VR is a VR port of Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar where you travel to the distant world of Britannia in a quest to become the Avatar. This game was first released in 1985 for the Apple II personal...
sidequestvr.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
there's a vr port of the ms-dos version of ultima 4 and it goes hard as fuck sidequestvr.com/app/8127/ank...
Time to sleep, but one final gaming-related shoutout: That new free Rabbit & Steel expansion adds one more key element from Final Fantasy 14 that it was missing:
Impossibly hype vocal boss themes.
Game is half off until the 14th and VERY good.
Impossibly hype vocal boss themes.
Game is half off until the 14th and VERY good.
RABBIT & STEEL: Extra Mode Trailer
YouTube video by mino_dev
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Time to sleep, but one final gaming-related shoutout: That new free Rabbit & Steel expansion adds one more key element from Final Fantasy 14 that it was missing:
Impossibly hype vocal boss themes.
Game is half off until the 14th and VERY good.
Impossibly hype vocal boss themes.
Game is half off until the 14th and VERY good.
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My latest repack is a game called SAS: Secure Tomorrow, a tactical shooter from 2008 developed by City Interactive using Lithtech Jupiter, same engine as FEAR, almost looking like a total conversion mod.
Game was tested and it's working fine:
archive.org/details/sas-...
Game was tested and it's working fine:
archive.org/details/sas-...
February 8, 2026 at 3:21 AM
My latest repack is a game called SAS: Secure Tomorrow, a tactical shooter from 2008 developed by City Interactive using Lithtech Jupiter, same engine as FEAR, almost looking like a total conversion mod.
Game was tested and it's working fine:
archive.org/details/sas-...
Game was tested and it's working fine:
archive.org/details/sas-...
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Yoshiyuki Tomino himself went on record saying that support from women fans saved the Gundam franchise in the early days!
I feel just the absolute most insane when I see people try to claim that 80s mech and sci-fi shows were No Girls Allowed when I have eyes and I can see what both shoujo anime men look like and what your average mech pilot looks like
February 8, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Yoshiyuki Tomino himself went on record saying that support from women fans saved the Gundam franchise in the early days!
Today, I've been poking around Peril. Y'know how Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is the biggest Quake community project? Peril, mostly the work of one person, is even bigger.
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Today, I've been poking around Peril. Y'know how Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is the biggest Quake community project? Peril, mostly the work of one person, is even bigger.
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
A colossal time-traveling adventure campaign across some of the biggest spaces ever made in the engine.
www.moddb.com/mods/peril/d...
From the folks behind Mibibli's Quest and Stardust Demon, so you know it's going to be legit.
a couple of screens for our upcoming action game, Crescent Break - the stack-able upgrade system combined with destructible environments is pure chaos (there's gonna be some really funny deaths :D) We need more WISHLISTS so please share!
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
From the folks behind Mibibli's Quest and Stardust Demon, so you know it's going to be legit.
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a couple of screens for our upcoming action game, Crescent Break - the stack-able upgrade system combined with destructible environments is pure chaos (there's gonna be some really funny deaths :D) We need more WISHLISTS so please share!
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
February 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
a couple of screens for our upcoming action game, Crescent Break - the stack-able upgrade system combined with destructible environments is pure chaos (there's gonna be some really funny deaths :D) We need more WISHLISTS so please share!
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
store.steampowered.com/app/4297720/...
#screenshotsaturday
Genuinely good little publisher that specializes in the kind of raw, unfiltered indie stuff we used to get before the Boom made 'polish' such a focus.
Big recommendations for Picayune Dreams, Dead Estate, Schism and Magenta Horizon.
Big recommendations for Picayune Dreams, Dead Estate, Schism and Magenta Horizon.
February 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Genuinely good little publisher that specializes in the kind of raw, unfiltered indie stuff we used to get before the Boom made 'polish' such a focus.
Big recommendations for Picayune Dreams, Dead Estate, Schism and Magenta Horizon.
Big recommendations for Picayune Dreams, Dead Estate, Schism and Magenta Horizon.
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Oh yeah, did I mention that the game is going through the 50% price cut??? 2LT publisher sale just began!
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Oh yeah, did I mention that the game is going through the 50% price cut??? 2LT publisher sale just began!
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Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us
Earlier this week, I spoke briefly Epic about Horses, a game that was approved for release on EGS, then blocked after a re-rating
"We love that studio," Epic VP Steve Allison said of Santa Ragione, but maintained that an AO rating was a dealbreaker
www.gamefile.news/i/186925441/...
"We love that studio," Epic VP Steve Allison said of Santa Ragione, but maintained that an AO rating was a dealbreaker
www.gamefile.news/i/186925441/...
February 7, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us
Two people I follow just posted 'Nioh 3 is one of my favourite games in ages' and 'Nioh 3 is one of the most disappointing things I've played in years' within seconds of each other.
It's one of THOSE games, huh?
It's one of THOSE games, huh?
February 7, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Two people I follow just posted 'Nioh 3 is one of my favourite games in ages' and 'Nioh 3 is one of the most disappointing things I've played in years' within seconds of each other.
It's one of THOSE games, huh?
It's one of THOSE games, huh?
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72-hour giveawway (grab now, keep forever) on an interesting looking indie SRPG with 100% positive user reviews.
Save 100% on Magellania on Steam
Defeat your enemies with the power of love, friendship, and violent military aggression in Magellania, a hardcore tactics-RPG set in outer space.
store.steampowered.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM
72-hour giveawway (grab now, keep forever) on an interesting looking indie SRPG with 100% positive user reviews.
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This response to why they cast a known sexual abuser in yakuza 3, when they've gotten rid of people for having done drugs in their past, is just so incredibly weak.
February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM
This response to why they cast a known sexual abuser in yakuza 3, when they've gotten rid of people for having done drugs in their past, is just so incredibly weak.
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I've only played a tiny bit so far, but oh yeah this is neat. If you're waiting on Mina The Hollower, Tearscape might scratch that itch.
February 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
I've only played a tiny bit so far, but oh yeah this is neat. If you're waiting on Mina The Hollower, Tearscape might scratch that itch.
I've only been able to scratch the surface of it (oh god, SO MANY GAMES THIS MONTH) but can confirm that Hermit & Pig has been incredibly charming so far.
It and the console re-release of Jimmy & The Pulsating Mass are peak RPG whimsy.
It and the console re-release of Jimmy & The Pulsating Mass are peak RPG whimsy.
This probably won’t last long, but it’s pretty wild to see while it does:
“Hermit and Pig is currently the highest-rated game of 2026.”
— TheGamer
www.thegamer.com/hermit-and-p...
#indiegame #gamedev #gamingnews
“Hermit and Pig is currently the highest-rated game of 2026.”
— TheGamer
www.thegamer.com/hermit-and-p...
#indiegame #gamedev #gamingnews
A New Game Has Stolen The Crown For Highest Rated Of The Year, And It's Not Nioh 3 Or Dragon Quest 7
Check out Hermit and Pig. Thank me later.
www.thegamer.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I've only been able to scratch the surface of it (oh god, SO MANY GAMES THIS MONTH) but can confirm that Hermit & Pig has been incredibly charming so far.
It and the console re-release of Jimmy & The Pulsating Mass are peak RPG whimsy.
It and the console re-release of Jimmy & The Pulsating Mass are peak RPG whimsy.