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When you boil it down to its core components, Tacoma is very much a similar game to Gone Home – not because they’re both immersive narrative games, but rather their crux lies in empathy through voyeurism over everything else. Tacoma gives the player space to get to know its characters,...
It is the small, seemingly insignificant details of The Lion’s Song that will make you smile the most as you explore the four episodic chapters of the game. It’s purely story-driven stuff, but with wonderful characters, all dealing with very real (and easily relateable) creative challenges, this is a game...
All this leaves Death Squared in a weird spot – I feel audiences will be alienated by the overwhelming focus on dying and starting over, but take out the death and what remains is a simple, lifeless game about cubes. Much of the game’s spark lies in its multiplayer, so...
Valkyrie Drive is the sort of game that, as described, pushes buttons. It’s got all the ramped-up sexualisation that works its way into most of Kenichiro Takaki’s games, and it’s also got the sort of gameplay that makes it easy to pick up without too much effort. However, that’s not...
Masquerada is a rare gem of a game in which everything about it comes together just perfectly to give plays a consistent and cohesive experience. Sure it’s possible to rue its relatively short running time (at 20 hours, this is a short RPG), particularly when the lore is so deep...
There’s a lot to love about Cat Quest, most of all perhaps its familiarity. That trait feels more like a blessing than the death knell that it is for a lot of other games, and it’s evident that this is a game with a lot of heart. It’s a bit...
Serial Cleaner is one hell of a game. It captures the style and appeal of the seventies greatly, layering it with a surreal ‘job’ to do, and a solid sense of humour. The relationship between Bob and his mother could almost be the foundation for a visual novel series, an...
Fate/Extella is a near perfect port of an excellent PlayStation 4 game, and the best Warriors game that hasn’t been developed by Koei Tecmo. It’s likely to be the only game of its kind on the Switch until Fire Emblem Warriors lands, and it’s the perfect kind of game to...
To be honest, the only redeeming factor of Toby: The Secret Mine is that it’s not one of the many, so many, “roguelikes” or pseudo 8-bit platformers that are the norm these days from indie developers. It felt kind of refreshing to go back to 2014, even for a fleeting...
It has been a real joy playing Aven Colony. As with any good simulation game, it’s a fairly relaxed, sedate experience that’s engaging for the mind by offering so many complementary and conflicting systems to manage. Without involving the micromanagement of something like Transport Giant, it’s also a game that...
While Ghost Blade HD doesn’t quite match the genre’s peak, it’s absolutely a game worth pursuing for genre fans feeling ravenous for selection on PlayStation 4. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a tribute game, offering players a chance to strategically overcome endless barrages of projectiles. Along the way, you’ll...
