Review by Matt S. What a delightful little visual novel Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze is. And, what a wonderful example of Australian creativity that permeates every part of the game. It’s an Australian-developed game (by Tin Man Games), based on one of the highest-profile Australian television series ever…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Knee Deep is a title that treads a fine line between a visual novel and an interactive drama. Its selling point is that the narrative is presented as a stage play, which suits the story itself as the game spins a tale of a washed-up actor’s…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. My first moments in 2064: ROM were brief: I went into “Options” to adjust settings, and the game promptly froze on me. My last moment in-game occurred when I reached the Epilogue and felt the urge to wet my whistle at the now familiar Stardust bar;…
Read MoreReview by Matt C.Sexy, fanserviced-riddled anime games get a bad rap. To some degree, this is justified – there’s a lot of valid criticism to be made of many such games’ approach to sexuality, especially with regard to women – but the disdain tends to go so much further than…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you didn’t know better, you’d take one look at Alluna and Brie and the Tentacle Menace and assume it was made by a small Japanese development outfit with a real love of sexy, sexy fanservice. But the game actually comes from a developer from rural…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. The “your days are numbered” trope can make for powerful fiction. You know the one: a character finds out that they don’t have long to live, and that puts their whole life into perspective. They might rail against their fate, looking desperately for some solution; they…
Read MoreGame theory by Matt C. Suicide is something that’s not often explored in video games. Fair enough – it’s a tricky subject in any medium, let alone an interactive one. It needs a great deal of care. Getting it right is a difficult task, and there’s a lot of room…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. Many of us remember the first years after graduating high school, having the drive to create something and the feeling of being part of something bigger when exploring that ambition. There was something simple about those days of comraderie between friends heading in the same direction…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Steins;Gate is one of the best visual novels that you’ll ever play. Indeed, it’s a big part of the reason that more and more visual novels are coming out west – PQube hit some real success in localising the original and now other niche publishers want…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Root Letter is one beautiful detective mystery. It’s a visual novel, so for the most part you’re looking at static images of backgrounds and portraits of the various characters, but every single part of every single image drips with the most subtle, elegant, deft touch of…
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