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Five teams of characters and five trips across multiple worlds. It sounds like a great adventure with several possibilities, enticing you to return and re-experience the story to see different endings. Jumping across worlds and carrying over your experience allows SaGa Emerald Beyond to stay with you in a way...
Crow Country
The original Resident Evil and Silent Hill on PlayStation 1 arguably set the framework for all survival horror games to come. In the past few years, many great indie survival horror projects have used these classics for inspiration. Crow Country now follows suit as a charming, nostalgic homage to the...
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is the debut project of Surgent Studios, a multimedia studio created by Abubakar Salim, who voiced protagonist Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins. The titular Zau is a young shaman who journeys through a short but tight Metroidvania world to return his beloved dad (‘baba‘) from the land...
Taking you on an underwater journey through the vastness of the mythical Veiled Sea, Endless Ocean: Luminous is the third entry in a series of ocean exploration games that first launched in 2007 on the Wii. This sequel allows players to don scuba gear and scour the depths of various...
TopSpin 2K25
A new entry in the Topspin series has finally happened after 13 long years. Yet wildly, after all this time Novak Djokovic is still the world’s number one men’s tennis player, just like back then. This fact perfectly encapsulates TopSpin 2K25: the more things change, the more they stay the...
Sand Land
Sand Land seems to be part of a relatively recent push to adapt the manga of the same name, originally released throughout the year 2000. A film adaptation was released last year, an animated series earlier this year, and now the official video game’s out. Sand Land was created by...
Stellar Blade
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A malevolent force has devastated planet Earth, and you’re the only one who can save it, by slicing and dicing your way through vicious creatures and saving humankind. This is the well-worn premise of Stellar Blade, a focused and thrilling action game that...
As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, a new game will enter the Soulslike genre, be a little weird and stir some attention. Last year that was Lies of P, merging the world of Pinnochio with gritty and cruel action RPG combat to surprising effect. This year’s answer is...
A sequel to 2022’s action RPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising and a spiritual successor to the original titles in the Suikoden series, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes plunders the aesthetics and mechanics of the late nineties’ era of PlayStation JRPGs and polishes them up for the modern audience.
Life Eater
Life Eater offers a truly unique premise. You are the reluctant follower of a God that promises devastation on the same day every year. To stave off an annual apocalypse, you must kidnap and sacrifice human targets to the all-mighty Zimforth. What this requires is careful monitoring of people’s characteristics and...
Broken Roads is an unabashedly Aussie post-apocalyptic RPG developed by Drop Bear Bytes. In the game, you’ll make moral choices galore as you decide how far you will go in order to protect yourself and others when the world has gone to Hell. With some great writing and aesthetics, the...
Children of the Sun is a revenge story that has you in the driver’s seat of a sniper assassin, hell-bent on taking down each and every individual member of the cult that did you wrong. Using a supernatural bullet that can change trajectory or speed at a moment’s whim, you must...
