Digitally Downloaded – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Boxshots for Death end re;Quest: Code Z on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

21.03.2025

Roguelike RPG Death end re;Quest: Code Z will be released for PlayStation this May

The third game in the Death end re;Quest series, Death end re;Quest: Code Z, was released in Japan in September 2024. In it, a group of young people cross a world tainted by bugs. Death is a constant threat as they confront mysteries and danger. The game is now poised to launch digitally and physically in the West for PlayStation this May. (The physical edition is delayed to June in Europe.) You can view its opening movie trailer here.…

Keep Reading

Latest

Roguelike RPG Death end re;Quest: Code Z will be released for PlayStation this May

March 21, 2025

Idea Factory International/News

The third game in the Death end re;Quest series, Death end re;Quest: Code Z, was released in Japan in September 2024. In it, a group of young people cross a world tainted by bugs. Death is a constant threat as they confront mysteries and danger. The game is now poised…

Heartfelt shop management visual novel Hanako’s Flower Shop launches in April

March 21, 2025

Indie/News

It’s nearly springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, and in a month nature will be well on its way from brown and muddy to green and blooming. What a great time to launch a game about flowers! Hanako’s Flower Shop is a shop management visual novel about running a flower shop,…

The key art for Ruffy and the Riverside.

Hand-drawn platformer Ruffy and the Riverside will be released this June

March 20, 2025

Indie/News

Ruffy and the Riverside is a platformer first, but its cut-and-paste puzzle gameplay separates it from other games in the same genre. The hand-drawn open-world game has players cutting and pasting textures to continue progressing through the platforming world. Originally set to be released in Q1 2025, Ruffy and the…

Psychological horror game Autopsy Simulator comes to consoles this April

March 20, 2025

News/Team17 Digital

This post will get a bit gruesome, so avert your eyes now if you must! Autopsy Simulator blends horror and simulation, leaning heavily on the horror aspect for the graphics as you dissect humans to determine their cause of death. The game launched for PC last year to mixed player…

Why we’re not going to review Assassin’s Creed: Shadows

March 19, 2025

Opinion

I’ve actually had a couple of people ask about this, so I thought it was important to clarify: For the first time in many years, I – and DDNet – will not be reviewing the new Assassin’s Creed game. There are several reasons for that. One is certainly because Ubisoft…

The key art for I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

Mid-’90s horror game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is coming to consoles

March 19, 2025

News/Nightdive Studios

First released in 1996 for PC and Mac, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream has won several awards, including Best Dark Game of 1996 from Digital Hollywood and Best Game Adapted from Linear Media from the Computer Game Developers Conference (now just Game Developers Conference, or GDC, which…

The key art for The Séance of Blake Manor.

Raw Fury partners with Spooky Doorway to publish The Séance of Blake Manor

March 18, 2025

News/Raw Fury

The next game from The Darkside Detective developer Spooky Doorway (off-topic: what a great studio name!) is the first-person mystery game The Séance of Blake Manor, where players don their detective hat to investigate a woman’s disappearance from a remote, secretive, supernatural hotel in 1897 Ireland. During The MIX’s Spring…

Review: Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch)

March 18, 2025

JRPG/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Xenoblade Chronicles X was arguably the most ambitious game to land on the Nintendo Wii U (you could argue that Breath of the Wild was, but then most people see that as a Switch game and forget that there was a Wii U version as well… and all this is…

Review: Scarlet Snowfall (Nintendo Switch)

March 17, 2025

Indie/Reviews/visual novel

Horror is such a difficult genre for artists to work with. People think it’s easy because they have memories of more-comedy-than-scary slashers and B-grade films, bad acting and all. There’s also the perception that it’s not a particularly subtle genre, and therefore must be quite easy to work with. But…

A newly-cropped version of Dee Dee in the DDNet news studio.

The catch-up coffee: March 17, 2025

March 17, 2025

catch-up coffee/News

Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…

1 2 3 … 1,582 Next

Reviews

Review: Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch)

March 18, 2025

Xenoblade Chronicles X was arguably the most ambitious game to land on the Nintendo Wii U (you could argue that Breath of…

Review: Scarlet Snowfall (Nintendo Switch)

March 17, 2025

Horror is such a difficult genre for artists to work with. People think it’s easy because they have memories of more-comedy-than-scary slashers…

Artwork for Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land.

Review: Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land (Nintendo Switch)

March 14, 2025

Back in 2019, Koei Tecmo hit it big with Atelier Ryza, and the long-running series went from being one of the most…

Review: Wanderstop (Xbox Series X)

March 14, 2025

I can only speak for myself, but burnout is absolutely horrible. I’m the type of person who can cause it to happen…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we wouldn’t play on the train

September 7, 2023

Got a Nintendo Switch? At some stage you’ve probably taken it out in public. After all, gaming on the go is very…

Interviews

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Fantasian Neo Dimension

We got to Q & A the JRPG legend, Hironobu Sakaguchi, about Fantasian

January 30, 2025

It’s not every day that you get to interview one of your heroes, but that was certainly the case when I got…

A screenshot of the three leaders in Romance of the Three Kingdom 8 Remake.

Launch interview: On remaking Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

October 24, 2024

The remake of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII is now out in the wild, and it is a very good game.…

A 4X game about… a failing empire? An interview with JG Games

October 3, 2024

Most 4X and empire-building strategy games are focused on building an empire up. Starting from humble roots and then carefully managing the…

Bringing fine art to video games: An interview with Nomada Creative Director, Conrad Roset

September 24, 2024

So much of Neva, as well as its predecessor, Gris, comes down to Conrad Roset, the Creative Director of Nomada Studio, and…

Gadgets

by Matt

February 2, 2025

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: H2O Audio’s RIPT Lite earbuds

H2O Audio’s RIPT Lite earbuds promise a lot: Noise cancelling, sweat-proof earbuds designed for use while you’re exercising, at a very affordable price. You can naturally use them for any device that supports a Bluetooth connection, so after the gym session you can then zone out with your Nintendo Switch, but the real point of these earbuds is for music,…

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/Headset

Gadget review: AceZone A-Spire Wireless Gaming Headset

Got some money to burn and want a headset that will allow you to truly zone out and enjoy whatever you’re playing? The AceZone A-Spire, released right at the end of last year, has you covered. Excessively so. Splashing out the AUD$700 is decadent, to be sure, but if you…