Review by Matt S. Quantum Suicide has been a very long time coming. We first wrote about the game back in 2016, saw it in action in 2017 at TGS, and thought then that things were coming together nicely. As happens so often with video games, though, things didn’t come…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The survival genre is interesting to write about critically, since many design choices which would feel grating or exhausting in any other genre are, instead, the survival game’s calling card. Things like permadeath, repetition, disempowerment, unsatisfying combat, even at times tedium – normally we don’t value…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Deep Silver and developer, 5 Lives Studios, has announced Windbound. A survival adventure game about building and maintaining a little raft ship to travel from island to island, this is a game well worth paying attention to. From the release: In Windbound, a young warrior named…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Disaster Report 4 is the latest in a hyper-niche series of Japanese adventure games that, as the name suggests, tasks you with surviving the fallout of a natural disaster. In this instance Japan is hit by a massive earthquake, and you need to make your way…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Given the bush fires ripping across my country right now, I’m not entirely sure that I need a disaster survival simulation, but hopefully, if I’m still around by April, things have settled down. NISA will release Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA has released a new trailer for Disaster Report 4. Showing off more the concept of the game than any particular element of gameplay, it introduces some of the characters, and the situation they’ve got themselves into. In Disaster Report 4, an earthquake has hit the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. God bless NISA. Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is getting a full localisation across PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC courtesy of the maverick publisher. It’s a while away until the game releases, but it is coming, and that’s the main thing. For people who haven’t…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I like Left Alive. That’s quite possibly the most controversial thing that I’ve ever written, given the wave of blind hatred that the game has been attracting since it launched last week. But I genuinely like it. It’s often a mess to play, but, equally, it’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I love Conan the Barbarian. The sheer pulp fantasy of the brutally dark world sung out to me as a Dungeons & Dragons-loving child back when I first discovered the Weird Tales literary magazine, and with it the likes of Robert E. Howard (the author of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m not a parent, and a lot of the time stories that deal with that particular dynamic, between parents and their kids, pass me by. I just haven’t felt the emotional connection there, and because those stories generally rely heavily on exploring that exact emotional connection,…
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