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It’s getting dark. You’re stumbling through the twilit woods, only vaguely conscious of your destination. At the edges of your mind you hear whisperings – fragments in an unknowable language – as a vile, mossy sludge drips across your vision. You wash your hands in a stream and exclaim at...
Fury Unleashed is a game I am bad at. I’m just terrible at it. I spent 3 hours getting repeatedly pummelled by the first boss. I had to switch to Easy Mode for the sake of this review. But here’s the thing: after I finished the game, I went back...
Living in a post Mario Maker world, it’s hard not to be excited by a new level designer game to sink my teeth into. Something about building your own and then playing other people’s levels is immensely satisfying, knowing that it was designed by someone just like you planning to...
25 years after its original release, a little game by the name of Trials of Mana has come out. It looks quite different from the 1995 Japanese version. Instead of the top-down, isometric view we now have a fully-fledged third-person remake, brought to life in a world of colour. The...
Initially, Predator: Hunting Grounds got me excited to jump into the heavy boots of a Predator once again. The Alien vs Predator games and surprise Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC proves that being or being hunted by a Predator is usually a fun time. With IllFonic behind this asymmetrical multiplayer title, the developers of Friday the 13th: The Game and arena shooter Nexuiz,...
The mud. The darkness. The morning light that greets you. The snow and the rivers and the forests. These are just some things that made SnowRunner such a visually appeasing game to play. SnowRunner is a realistic driving simulator developed by Saber Interactive that sees the player traverse around three...
Itta
ITTA is a game about contrasts. It is partly a hectic boss rush action game with strong bullet hell shooter elements, and partly a tranquil isometric walking simulator with some light puzzle solving. While it may seem like these two gameplay styles should not go together, ITTA makes the two...
Gears Tactics is a single player top-down turn-based strategy combat game developed by The Coalition and Splash Damage and published by Xbox Game Studios. It’s the latest entry in the Gears of War series and takes place in the same story realm. Gears has carved its identity over the decade...
Sakura Wars is not an RPG, turns out. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed. With Fire Emblem, Persona 5, Trails of Cold Steel, and the other Persona 5, I thought this would be another social sim/JRPG hybrid. But Sakura Wars bucks the trend by being part dating sim, part action-platformer....
Cyberpunk video games are certainly in vogue right now. And if you’re paying attention to the indie gaming scene you’ll also notice that package delivery games are strangely prevalent. I guess that makes Cloudpunk the trendiest kid on the playground.
We’ve all experienced that feeling while in the process of moving. That feeling of dread when you realise how much junk you’ve somehow accumulated over the years, and that it’s only when you decide to move that these unnecessary items now become a bigger problem then they were before. Because...
Obey Me is a frantic supernatural brawler developed by Error 404 Game Studios and published by Blowfish Studios. But with all of the alternatives on the market, does the world really need another co-op brawler? And if so is this one worth your money and your time?
