Games you can play this week – zombies and dungeons

As time marches on, 2016 now in full swing, we have new video game releases to check out.

This week features a mix of intriguing smaller games and a couple of ports worth revisiting.

Darkest Dungeon – January 19

(PC)

Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike, dungeon crawler video game created by indie game developer Red Hook Studios. The game has the player manage a roster of heroes to explore dungeons below a gothic mansion the player has inherited.

Played out in a mix of real-time movement and turn-based combat, a core feature of Darkest Dungeon is the stress level of each hero that increases with further exploration and combat; a character sustaining a high stress level may gain afflictions that will hamper, or possibly enhance, their performance as an explorer.

Resident Evil Origins Collection – January 22

(PS4, Xbox One, PC)

The Origins Collection takes all of the hot action from Resident Evil 0 HD and bundles it together with last year’s excellent remaster of the Resident Evil remake.

Both games now have high-resolution textures that have been created from scratch, including 1080p support on next-gen consoles, while still preserving the classic appearance of the original releases.