RPG
The 80-hour open worlds worth finishing
Australia's living-room game blog
Where quiet green corners meet loud boss fights.
We write from a plant-filled, timber-beamed studio in Surry Hills — long-form RPG breakdowns, honest indie reviews, and hardware guides built for players who read.
Indie
Six local indies we can't stop replaying
Hardware
Handheld buyer's guide, updated monthly
Community
Inside our Thursday co-op nights
About the citadel
A blog that plays slow and writes carefully.
Dragon Shadow Citadel started in 2018 as a two-person newsletter and grew into a full editorial team of eight. We work out of a converted warehouse on Fitzroy Street — living walls, exposed timber, and a couch that has hosted more late-game boss debates than we can count.
No review scores farmed for clicks, no press-trip fluff. Every piece is played to credits, fact-checked, and edited by a human who actually finished the game.
Independent since 2018
3 new articles weekly
What we cover
Six desks, one couch, endless backlog.
RPG deep-dives
Build guides, lore essays and endgame breakdowns — 2,000+ words, spoiler-tagged, updated after every patch.
Indie spotlight
Weekly picks from Australia's indie scene, with dev interviews and demo verdicts.
Hardware labs
Handhelds, mechanical boards and headsets tested for two weeks before we say a word.
Patch tracker
Plain-English changelogs for the live-service games our readers actually run.
Retro corner
Revisiting the classics on original hardware, emulator setups included.
Members' newsletter
One Friday email — free tier, or AUD $6/month for the full archive.
Reader voices
Trusted by players who finish games.
"Their Baldur's Gate 3 class breakdown was the only guide that assumed I could read. Saved my whole second playthrough."
"I bought a Steam Deck OLED off their hardware lab review alone. Every note about battery life was spot on."
"The indie spotlight got my tiny studio its first 500 wishlists. They actually played our demo to the end."
"Thursday co-op nights at the studio are how I met half my current guild. Genuinely warm crowd."
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- Phone
- +61 2 9564 2789
- [email protected]
- Studio
- 57 Fitzroy Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 9am–6pm AEST