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Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars certainly knows how to set a mood. The game opens on a black screen of narration from the main character, setting the scene. Then, a gorgeous 2D animated cutscene follows the flight of a crow through Paris in the Fall, stilling above the brightly...
What would it be like if your Funko Pop! Vinyl figures went on an epic adventure? When a villain throws the Funko world into danger, it’s up to the protagonists of several worlds to stop them. It’s your typical platforming adventure that throws in the fun of Funko to spice...
Frostpunk 2 is a survival strategy city-builder game developed and published by 11 bit Studios. The game comes with two modes: a story mode, featuring a campaign split into six different chapters, and the ‘utopia’ mode, which features a sandbox with endless play. It’s a sequel to Frostpunk, which originally...
The year is 2006. The remake of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead has dropped two years earlier, as did its iconic parody in Shaun of the Dead. Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead is still a few years from dominating our TV screens. Zombie horror love is bubbling. Schoolyard debates are...
With great vigour and enthusiasm, the writer of this review sprang into action to get his thoughts down on the proverbial page. Feeling inspired by his time playing The Plucky Squire, the writer was bursting with passion, glee, and the childlike wonderment instilled into him during every minute of the...
Enotria: The Last Song is a beautiful, if imperfect, soulslike developed by Jyamma Games. Set in a fantasy world inspired by Italian folklore, it brings a beautiful art direction and some interesting unique gameplay features to an otherwise rather familiar formula. While not all of these features work as well...
Copycat is the debut title from Australian-Ukranian duo Spoonful of Wonder, made up of Samantha Cable and Kostia Liakhov. It’s an emotional, narrative-driven game where you play as Dawn, a shelter cat adopted by an aging woman named Olive. It’s a short and tightly controlled experience, and while you’re occasionally...
Wild Bastards
There’s little in games that thrill me more than solid, snappy first-person-shooter gunplay and titles in the roguelike genre. Even greater is the simple but still to this day galaxy brain idea of merging the two, creating to me some of the best and most fun to play titles of...
I Am Your Beast is a lightning-fast first-person shooter developed by Strange Scaffold, known for their stylistic games like El Paso, Elsewhere. With its comic book-inspired visuals, a heart-pounding soundtrack, and a unique blend of parkour and combat mechanics, I Am Your Beast challenges players to improvise, adapt, and survive...
Praying to the gods for victory was the standard for armies in ancient times. Whatever your respective pantheon was, you prayed for the gods to grant you victory. Age of Mythology: Retold brings those prayers to life by giving you godly powers in exchange for your faith. With the ability...
It’s been over eight years since the asymmetric multiplayer horror game Dead By Daylight first shocked players with its brutal gameplay and eclectic roster of characters dubbed killers and survivors. Since DBD’s beginning though there’s always been a call for more. With lore presented throughout the game via little more...
Fighting as a Space Marine in the Warhammer 40k universe is daunting. Powerful aliens threaten humanity and the Space Marines are the best humanity has to offer. Against swarms of Tyranids, humanity is slowly getting pushed back on two planets. It’s up to you to lead a squad and fight...
