Haley Perry
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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.
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.