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Ah, Peaky Blinders. The popular show that has a Nick Cave song as its theme, features the likes of the ever pretty Cillian Murphy, and is all about men smoking cigarettes, being tough and fighting good in 1900’s London. It’s the latest show to be adapted to a game, resulting...
Mortal Shell is a new Action RPG in the style of Dark Souls, whilst there are many games within this Souls-like genre now, does Mortal Shell have enough to shine its soul into your life? Mortal Shell is developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack, being Cold Symmetry’s first...
Exploring the world doesn’t mean you need to leave home at all. Asobo Studio’s newest release Microsoft Flight Simulator refreshes the most well-known aviation project. Players can travel the world, with 37,000 airports and detailed environments to couple the intense features of each plane. The eleventh major entry into the...
One of the most successful Early Access titles in recent memory would have to be Risk of Rain 2. The game released onto Steam Early Access alongside PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch back in March of 2019. The game quickly gained a lot of attention as a solid foundation...
The world is one hell of a puzzling place right now, so spending time on the first person, sci-fi puzzle game Relicta seems quite apt. To me, it was a bit of an analogy of being in Stage 4 lockdown here in Melbourne – frustrating, sometimes boring, but if you...
The world seems to keep changing, but one thing is still the same and that’s our love for skateboarding. Skater XL is the newest simulator skating game by California-based developers, Easy Day Studios. This evolution in the genre uses independent foot control and a unique physics system to carve a...
I disembark the train. Now, I rest on a desolate island filled to the brim with overgrown forestry. Birds fly by. Trees whisper as the wind passes through. An old, 18th century hotel stands lays ahead of me. A siren song plays, beckoning me closer. I couldn’t be more eerily...
Skully
Skully is a puzzle-platformer where you roll around an island as a skull. Unlike most skulls, you possess the ability to form bodies out of clay to assist in your quest. With its compelling characters and story and beautiful artistic vision, there is a lot to like about Skully’s presentation,...
Hellpoint is a Souls-like open-world action RPG set in in a sci-fi world. The game is developed by Cradle Games and published by tinyBuild and comes with a single player mode, local and online co-op mode, and PvP mode. Originally funded through Kickstarter, the game developers were keen to pay...
We have a new entry into the long list of anime and manga that’s been adapted to a video game! Fairy Tail is that franchise, which originally spanned a series of manga volumes and anime series over its 2006-2017 life-span. Admittedly, it’s a franchise I know very little about. Still, getting to...
I’m only going to give you one guess as to what the game Fight Crab is about, and I’m pretty sure that everyone will get it right. You play as a crab, and you fight other crabs. If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, then you just won’t...
Some narratives choose ambiguity to shroud a stronger sense of mystery around its story. Things are left unexplained or given explanations at a surface level, raising more questions then it answers. Othercide is a narrative light on detail, but leaves just enough breadcrumbs to at least keep you engaged until...
