Author: Dev and Play Media
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ChainStaff is a Metal Album Soaked in Alien Guts
You’ve got an alien parasite bolted to your skull. It wants you to eat human organs. Yup. ChainStaff doesn’t care if you’re comfortable. It gladly gives you a Swiss Army knife made of alien bone, but then it fully expects you to survive a 1980s heavy metal album cover come to life. It is loud.…
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The Cozy and Lovable Chaos of Nippets
Most modern games feel like a second job. You log in. You check your dailies. You grind a battle pass you bought in a moment of weakness, and you log out feeling emptier than when you started. Then a game like Nippets drops on your desk. It doesn’t want 100 hours of your life. It…
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KuloNiku Serves Up Turn-Based Tension
Ah, the undeniable beauty that’s the “cozy” genre. Little by little, it’s become a dumping ground for tedious chore simulators pretending to be some glorified, mental health retreats. KuloNiku: Bowl Up! looks like another generic ‘save grandma’s shop’ story. Don’t fall for it. This isn’t a relaxing tea break. It’s a high-stress restaurant shift disguised…
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Way of the Hunter 2 is a Mud-Soaked Lesson in Pain
We’ve played enough hunting sims to know that no one plays them to feel like an action hero. Far from it. We play it to sit in a damp bush for an hour, staring at a patch of dirt, begging a digital elk to walk into your crosshairs before your real-life coffee gets cold. Way…
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Goblin Cleanup is Viscera Cleanup in a Fantasy Sweatshop
Forget the power fantasy. It’s overrated anyway. We’ve spent thirty years kicking down dungeon doors, massacring dark legions, slaughtering the indigenous wildlife, and stripping chests bare. But, what about the aftermath? Did you ever stop to think about the poor bastards who have to mop up the goblin brains before the next party of try-hards…
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The Beauty and Brutallity of Morbid Metal
Seven years. Seven years is a long time for a game to be in the oven. Usually, when a solo passion project cooks for that long, it ends up being a bloated and outdated mess by the time it finally comes out. Morbid Metal shouldn’t work. It started back in 2017 as Felix Schade’s college…
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Hacking, Slashing, and Keeping the Beat in the Alpha Nomos Demo
If your two favorite gaming pastimes are dungeon crawling and keeping a beat, you might want to check out the new demo for Alpha Nomos. It’s a weird, vibrant mix of hack-and-slash action and rhythm mechanics that recently got a playable preview. You play as Cello, who finds herself stuck in a musical world that’s…
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Animalkind is Stardew Valley in a Caterpillar Tractor
We’re quite certain you didn’t click this for an expert look into the ethics of wildlife operating heavy machinery. If we were betting men, you saw a raccoon driving a walking tank, and your brain immediately dumped serotonin. It’s a ridiculous pitch. Completely absurd. But man, it actually works. Mostly. Welcome to Animalkind! Roll, roll,…
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Could Ardenfall be the Old-School RPG Sandbox We’ve Been Waiting For?
Ardenfall is shaping up to be the exact kind of old-school, hands-off RPG that Morrowind fans have been begging for. Instead of the usual elves-and-orcs fantasy, it drops you into a weird, politically charged world full of windy plains, alien coastlines, and ancient ruins. The demo has been available for a while now, so feel…
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Froggy Hates Snow: Shoveling Through This Frantic Survival Roguelike
Froggy Hates Snow drops you into a freezing wasteland as an amphibian who just wants to stay warm. It’s a survival roguelike where you literally dig your own paths through the map, shoveling snow to uncover loot, dodge traps, and fight off creepy obsidian monsters before the cold takes you out. What you find here…
