What we’ve been playing – “I simply didn’t know if a first-person shooter could work as a Soulslike”

This weekly games column shares what its writers have been playing, from a long-awaited strategy classic to a challenging shooter that mixes first-person combat with Soulslike ideas. The piece matters as a snapshot of varied gaming experiences, including uncertainty about whether the unusual shooter design works.

One writer finally tried FTL, enjoying its strategic depth but not yet beating its final boss. Another played the Guns of Eschaton demo ahead of its announced 8 December release, finding distant enemies, scarce ammunition and difficult controls frustrating, though the Weird West setting kept the game on their radar. The supplied article text ends during a discussion of Walkabout Mini Golf, so it does not include the rest of the writers’ impressions.