It was only a few weeks ago that heartfelt game Hanako’s Flower Shop was announced with a release window of April, and today a specific launch date was pinned down for late this month. The game follows the titular character, a young woman at a crossroads in life. She decides to run her grandfather’s beloved flower shop. The gameplay resembles…
I’m about to get personal for a minute, but I promise it is relevant. Decades ago, my family moved to a tiny village in Ontario — it was in the middle of nowhere, it covered less than a square kilometre of land and the population was only a few hundred.…
Today’s Nintendo Direct is no different than the rest: it packs a…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I…
I haven’t written about Hokko Life for over two years (it was in a catch-up coffee in 2020). The game is very, very customizable life sim about starting over in a new place. Players come to Hokko to settle into a new home (customizable!) and turn the village into a…
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Developed by Hikotel and co-produced by Phoenixx and Gotcha Gotcha Games, Kokoro Clover Season 1 has been announced to release on August 4 for the Switch, and PC via Steam. But who are the names behind this release’s development? Gotcha Gotcha Games is a well-known organisation, a subsidiary of Kadokawa…
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Okay, everyone, it’s time to stop playing Stray for half an hour to learn about its publisher’s upcoming titles. Games other than Stray that Annapurna Interactive has published lately includes Telling Lies and Twelve Minutes. The publisher is on fire lately, and I’m excited to see what game announcements, closer…
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Affordable Acquisition, a first-time game development studio, has been working on a brand-new twin-stick tower defence title under the name of ‘Slaycation Paradise’, and now it has a release date. Although there is very little meaningful documentation on Affordable Acquisition across the internet, it seems as though the company has…
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It was first announced last April, but we finally have a release date for Wylde Flowers on PC and Nintendo Switch – this September! I cannot tell you how many hours I put into this game; I went full on Animal Crossing and had spreadsheets of things to remember and…
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Circus Electrique has intrigued me from the beginning. The publisher described the game as part story-drive RPG, part tactics, and part circus management; and it’s not like there’s tons of circus-themed turn-based tactical management RPGs floating around out there. I’m so interested in it, that it made my list of…
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Since its initial PC launch last December, news about Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo has been pretty sparse. We knew console versions would be delayed as it was announced last August, but it’s been a hot minute since we’ve heard more about it. Finally, the important news has dropped: the game…
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Travis Touchdown is the number one assassin in the world but will the next title featuring the Otaku hero –No More Heroes 3 – also be so successful? Okay, in all honesty, it absolutely will be; while I haven’t played myself, the first two titles are quite well-reviewed, with Metacritic…
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Described as “a cinematic story of love and promises” and “a gripping narrative adventure,” I’ve had my eye on South of the Circle since it was first announced earlier this year. How could I not with descriptions like those two?! It helps that the developer is award-winning and the publisher…
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Formerly set to release on August 25, Idea Factory’s Jyuzaengi: Engetsu Sangokuden 1 & 2 for the Switch has instead been pushed back to a new release date of September 22, with a somewhat vague “various circumstances” being the explanation. The history of Jyuzaengi has its roots enveloped in the…
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