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When eight friends come together after a horrible tragedy, you don’t expect a night filled with horror tropes. Do your best to keep everyone alive, or fail miserably and see everyone horribly dispatched. A remake of the 2014 original, Until Dawn comes with better graphics and improved environments. Experience the...
When you embark on a saga of epic proportions, you usually don’t think it will take a long time. But Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven takes those expectations and runs with it. Your journey takes hundreds of years as you fight evil at different ages. Taking control of...
Sonic X Shadow Generations seems targeted specifically to fans like me, and not just because “Sonic X Shadow” is a term I’ve been intimately familiar with since the age of 13. If Sonic Generations is a celebration of the long history of the blue blur, then the added “Shadow Generations”...
You are a teenage girl in love with another girl for the first time—your best friend. You don’t know if she loves you back or even likes you that way. The weight of the entire world is on your shoulders.
Unknown 9: Awakening is the debut title by Canadian developer Reflector Games, as well as the first entry in a rather ambitious multimedia shared universe that is set to expand across comic books, web series and podcasts. Despite being saddled with an unintuitive title that makes it sound like the...
Super Mario Party Jamboree is yet another well-polished, crowd-pleasing, multiplayer game starring Mario and all his friends and rivals, jam-packed with party boards, minigames, and extra modes. It adds a bit more chaos back into the mix, which we love to see, and even a whole new way to party:...
Drova transports you to a world steeped in Celtic mythology and puts you in a punishing situation. Lost in a world that’s supposed to be a perfect paradise, you quickly discover it is anything but that. Adapt to the world and join one of two factions to survive, but be...
Neva
Creators of the visually arresting and incredibly touching GRIS, the talented crew at Nomada Studio are back with their next adventure, exploring themes of love, identity, growth, trust and courage. This time, the focus is on a young woman named Alba, who is travelling through a decaying world with her...
Take to the skies in Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, a new RPG by Octeto Studios. Taking a substantial amount of inspiration from the cult classic Dreamcast RPG Skies of Arcadia, the game certainly has its charms. Unfortunately, the experience is also weighed down by a significant number of technical...
Western audiences may be less aware, but Nihon Falcom is quietly one of the biggest and hardest-working RPG genre smiths games have ever seen. Their most popular series include the beloved Legend of Heroes and Trails, two pairs of long-running turn-based adventures that provide epic political fantasy stories with what feels like hundreds...
Europa
Stunning vistas, free-form flight, and a touching story await in Europa, a short adventure with some of the most beautiful art you’ll see in gaming.
According to Sheffield-based developers Steel City Interactive, Undisputed is the first major boxing video game released in over a decade. At first thought, this felt like a dubious claim, but a quick Google search later and it turns out they are right. My, how time flies since the days of...
