The original Kingdom Come Deliverance was in some ways unfortunate. For reasons that would be annoying and exhausting to revisit, it got caught up in the whole GamerGate thing from a decade ago, and this tainted many people’s perceptions of it. On top of that, the game itself did several infuriating things that make it harder to respect as a…
I don’t know where the past year and a half went. I could have sworn I’d just barely stopped posting about Dokapon Kingdom: Connect, but my last post was in June… June 2023. It is a Compile Heart-developed remake of Sting’s Dokapon Kingdom (2007) for Nintendo Switch, best described as…
Set in an alternate 19th-century Japan near the end of the Boshin…
Have you ever wondered what a version of 1980s America (Showa 66)…
Less than a week ago, Mirthwood developer Bad Ridge Games detailed its post-launch roadmap for the medieval fantasy RPG life/farm-sim adventure game set to launch on September 11 (or September 12, depending on your region). A mere two days from launch, the title has been delayed until November. On the…
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It’s been a while since I’ve thought about Popcap’s classic Peggle – and that’s not helped by the series being dormant since 2013 – but I’m willing to bet that back when I did, I never once considered that what Peggle, that classic and relaxing mix of Pachinko and bagatelle…
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During last week’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, we got our first glimpse of Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land. Anything explained was vague: it’s an alchemy RPG and a woman dealing with her past and it’s expected to launch in early 2025. Today, publisher Koei Tecmo…
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I’m about to really age myself, but when I was young, the idea of (legitimately) free video games was very different to what it is today. There were no microtransactions, and no Fortnites, Genshin Impacts, or MMOs. If you were playing free, you were either playing shareware demos or very…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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Dungeon RPG Tokyo Clanpool is the sixth time Eastasiasoft is collaborating with Idea Factory to bring games to Western audiences; others include fanservicey titles like Seven Pirates H and Mugen Souls. Originally developed by Compile Heart (a subsidiary of Idea Factory), Tokyo Clanpool has you navigating maze-like dungeons, facing off…
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It is genuinely impressive that Xuan-Yuan Sword VII has come to the Switch. This is one of the more technically detailed games to have come out of Taiwan, and concessions did need to be made to make it work on the Switch. If all that matters to you is the…
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Farming sims are great: you can be one with nature without ever having to step foot outside. That may sound lazy to some but as someone who is super sensitive to the sun and heat, farming sims give me an experience I wouldn’t otherwise actually enjoy. I’m always on the…
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Do I remember anything from December 2016? Heck no! It’s why I write things down! That month, Atlus teased its first full-scale fantasy RPG, Project ReFantasy. It slowly evolved into Metaphor: ReFantazio, which was officially unveiled during the Xbox Games Showcase 2023. This is a big game for Atlus and…
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One of my favourite things about Broken Roads is that every second sentence there’s a word that’s highlighted, and you can press a button to see a little pop-up explaining what that word means. That word is inevitably a piece of Australian English, and the developers felt the need to…
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