Haley Perry
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The success of multiplayer dating sim Monster Prom has spurred a sequel that’s taking us into the summer of love. Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp puts you on a bus full of spooky and bizarre monster teens and sends you off to camp, where your goal is to get a date to the meteor shower. Fewer things are more romantic than stargazing, and you’ve only got a few weeks to make some magic happen.
Ary and the Secret of Seasons is the tale of a defiant young girl who takes the fate of the world into her own hands when evil strikes. The daughter of a Guardian responsible for the security and status quo of the winter region of Valdi, Aryelle must harness the magical powers of the seasons and use them to save the world from peril. It’s an upbeat indie adventure that’s perfect for kids and undeniably full of charm, but unfortunately, it feels incomplete and unpolished in ways that wear away this charm all too fast.
Atomicrops is almost what you’d get if you crossed Stardew Valley with Enter the Gungeon. You cultivate your land and plant crops that hum and sing as they sprout. You acquire farm animals to roam around your untamed pasture overwhelmed with weeds. You can marry a partner, or two, if polygamy is your thing. It sounds like a nicely painted picture, but in reality, this seemingly peaceful farming sim is anything but. In its truest form, it’s a twin-stick shooter with roguelite elements that has you tending a fertile plot of land in the center of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. You must grow enough food to feed an entire town while hostile mutant creatures try to stop you at every moment. It’s a chaotic and challenging genre mashup that defies all expectations, and it’s a bullet hell nightmare I never want to wake up from.
It’s not every day that a video game has the capacity to move me to tears, and I can’t say I remember the last time it even happened. It’s usually easy for me to distance my emotions from a work of art or a piece of media, but Lightning Rod Games’ new puzzle game A Fold Apart has no issue whatsoever breaking down all of my walls. It’s an emotional journey more than it is a simple puzzle game. A Fold Apart is a story about love. And more than that, it’s a story about separation. It’s about doubt. Grief. Loneliness. Pain. Sadness, and strength. It’s about the struggle between emotion and reason when two people in love make the choice to be apart. It’s a tragically well-written tale, and one that succeeds at feeling as real and tangible as it gets.
Maybe I’m just the worst zoo owner on the face of the Earth, or maybe this is just as common an experience for other players as it seems to be for me in Planet Zoo. You’ve got so many people to keep happy that often you have to make the choice between putting guest needs on the backburner and focusing on animal welfare, or sacrificing one for the other in the opposite direction. Sometimes you simply can’t figure out where you’re going wrong. Of course, it would be nice to have everything work out in perfect unison, but such is almost never the case in this massive, sometimes punishing, construction and management simulation game by Zoo Tycoon and Planet Coaster’s Frontier Developments.
One moment, I’m down in the splits because I couldn’t walk forward using my legs in the proper order, and the next I’m choking to death because I accidentally inhaled and swallowed water at the same time. No, I’m not talking about that time I got sloshed at my cousin’s wedding, I’m talking about Manual Samuel: the game that makes every bodily action a conscious and ridiculous challenge.
The newest addition to The Elder Scrolls Online is here, and it’s taken us to Summerset: the picturesque Altmeri homeland that is equally ominous as it is beautiful. The new island brims with amazing little adventures that you won’t regret exploring, whether you are brand new to the MMO or a veteran of the game already.
Masters of Anima is an adventure game from French indie developer Passtech Games that offers a fun little experience with a creative combat system, where strategy is the most vital characteristic. We are welcomed to the world of Spark, where a naturally occurring magical energy called Anima can be harnessed to construct creatures and bend their wills to fight for you in battle. Those who learn to control this energy are called Shapers, and they must pass various tests and trials in order to earn the title of “Master.”