News by Matt S. If you’ve never played an A-Train title previously, you’ve really been missing out. Artdink’s simulation series is a brilliant look into the positive impact that public transport can have on an area, and while you’re only responsible for creating a public transport network in a city,…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Nothing gives me national pride (Go Canada!) quite like a great indie dev from a nearby city; Thunder Lotus is one of the great ones, and I’m sure you’ve heard of it before —it’s the developer behind Jotun and Sundered. And this week, during Microsoft’s E3…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It becomes very easy to overlook Kairosoft titles after you’ve played a couple of them. The downside to their consistency is that it’s easy to become complacent about them, and this is particularly true given that the company has decided to release them on the Nintendo…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Harvest Moon (and the genre it spawned) is great, because Harvest Moon is a sentimentally meditative game. You enjoy a homey little life in the far-flung countryside, where you run through a daily routine of milking cows and tending to onions. Morning chores done, you head…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Weedcraft Inc. is a tycoon game about developing a marijuana empire, which aspires, and succeeds, to be a game far greater and far more intelligent than anyone would have expected. Coming from Polish studio Vile Monarch, and published by the ever subversive Devolver Digital, Weedcraft Inc.…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. When it comes to strategy games or simulators that have an established legacy, fans can be particularly picky, and very traditional. Often, the fan favourite of a series is most certainly not the newest entry, particularly if there’s been a lot done to change the game.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ninja Village is a Kairosoft game, and if you don’t know what that means, then you haven’t played a Kairosoft game before. The developer, which previously stuck to the mobile platform like glue, has recently hit the Nintendo Switch with a flood of ports, and has…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The Stillness of the Wind is a game about deterioration – about watching the things that we love, and which we have worked hard to preserve, slowly crumble away around us. It follows an elderly woman named Talma who cares for a small flock of goats…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Shrouded Isle is immediately appealing because of the aesthetic. Like the yellowed pages of a book from antiquity, the deep sepia tones, combined with the promise of a dark narrative of sacrifice and worship, is very hard to ignore. The actual game isn’t even remotely…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Kairosoft simulators are really hard to put down. There has been a lot of them now, and every single time they’ve offered the lightest of simulation gameplay coupled with adorable pixel graphics that are so charming that once you start playing, it’s easy to be swept…
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