Review by Trent P. Who remembers the episode of The Simpsons in which Homer heads over to a chilli cookoff and consumes several ‘Guatemalan Insanity Peppers’, leading him to hallucinate and go on a vision quest in a surreal version of Springfield? Though Homer’s quest was about finding his soul…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It says it right in the title: this game is a roguelike. That means player death, more player death, and then for a bit of variety, some more player death. Now with most roguelikes, when a character dies it’s simply back to the start of the…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Ask anyone – if they had to pick the single genre which represents the indie gaming movement the most, it’s likely that the answer will unanimously be “puzzle platformer”, or the equally tiresome “puzzle platformer, with a twist”. It’s hard to not be jaded in 2014…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Getting right into it, the first episode of Alpha Kimori, Great Doubt, is a perfect example of an excellently crafted indie JRPG. While having been built while using RPG Maker, just about every element has been created from scratch which generally would be impressive alone, however…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Fearless Fantasy… FF… where have we seen this acronym before? Must be my imagination. Fearless Fantasy is an interesting take on a combat heavy turned based RPG. Where this differs from other RPGs is that it takes a page from Sony’s Legend of the Dragoon in…
Read MorePreview by Trent P. If Habitat had an opening sequence implemented at this stage, I imagine it would go along the lines of the following: There’s a collision above Earth with a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream, the Black Knight Satellite, and like hitting a piñata, objects lost in time clutter…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It frustrates me when a developer goes to all the effort to create a compelling narrative, setting, and character, and then falls back on a safe set of tropes for the actual gameplay. This is, in a word, Munin. The developers clearly went to some effort…
Read MoreReview by Sam M. It’s hard to make a twin-stick shooter that stands out from the rest. Crimsonland, brought to us by developers 10tons, is the next game to try. It takes takes the steps needed to advance the formula, only to take a few steps back in the process.…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I’ve been playing games for many, many years now, and as much as I love the advances of game development that have given me everything from Skyrim to the Atelier franchise, from Dragon Age to Nier and Drakengard, I can’t help but feel nostalgic for a…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition for the PS4 is a new version of a side-scrolling Metroidvania brawler that has been more than a little popular, and comes to us from Canadian-based DrinkBox Software. The game was already good stuff, so you might be wondering what the…
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