With over 100 different puzzles nested into the beautiful yet often lonely world of The Talos Principle, it would be easy to believe that these challenges are what you will spend most of your time thinking about. Truth be told, there is an additional layer on top of the game…
Read MoreSo often when we talk about great games, they come from the minds of the creators who have been in the industry for a very long time. And so it’s really great to see young developers being given the chance to show the world what they have to offer, and…
Read MoreDungeon Souls is an RPG for those who think the genre has become too bloated and complex over time. Taking inspirations from games such as Gauntlet and Risk of Rain, Dungeon Souls is part dungeon crawler and part top-down shooter as players guide their pixelated avatars through neon hallways fighting…
Read MoreIt really does my heart glad when I see game developers take a more mature look at the impact that war has on people. I enjoy the odd shooter and I love strategy games, but, of course, real war isn’t heroic, and even when it’s righteous and soldiers are fighting…
Read MoreGiven the popularity of dual stick arcade games like Geometry Wars and Super Stardust, it makes a lot of sense that we would see more twin stick shooters being made by indie developers. The genre is known for being accessible to a wide variety of gamers, yet also maddeningly difficult…
Read MoreYatagarasu: Attack on Cataclysm is a difficult game to review – in fact I feel like I should write two separate ones: one for people new to the fighting genre and another for the core fans. It’s a game which aims to mimic the glory days of the 2D fighting…
Read MoreI will never claim to be an expert at shoot ‘em ups. Except for Resogun, I wasn’t bad that one. But that doesn’t mean that I find them unenjoyable, and I especially like when, as with Astebreed, they do something a bit different than the norm. Coming from developer Edelweiss…
Read MoreThere are some games that are simply brilliant in their presentation, and get away with a weaker premise on that basis. Other games present amazing ideas but fall a bit short in the implementation. Aero’s Quest is the latter. It has a great concept but the implementation felt somewhat off.…
Read MoreAfter doing some research up on RONIN and finding out that it’s a “turn-based platformer”, I initially thought Steam had made some error. Such a genre combination couldn’t possibly exist. And yet, in this stylised stealth title by Tomasz Waclawek and published by Devolver Digital, the spheres of turn based…
Read MoreOne of the many books I probably shouldn’t have read as a youngster, but did anyway, was One Thousand And One Nights. I was a big fan of Disney’s Aladdin, and when I head that Aladdin came from this book (along with a bunch of other stories), I went and…
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