Author: Dev and Play Media
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Dosa Divas is a Spicy Feast That You Can’t Resist
Outerloop Games is back. With Dosa Divas they’re still wearing their cultural hearts right on their sleeves. Two sisters, an ancient mech, and a crusade against a monolithic fast-food conglomerate. Dosa Divas is anti-capitalist, aggressively colorful and, at the same time, deeply personal. It’s also hugely ambitious, to a point that it tries too many…
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Sanity and Screaming at Your Friends: First Look at LightSup!
We recently checked out an exclusive, media-only early build of LightSup! In this cartoony title, you and up to three friends get tossed into a fantasy world that’s trapped in a permanent eclipse. What’s a permanent eclipse without a legion of monsters? Glad you asked, because that’s exactly what you’ll be doing – fighting waves…
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Blood Reaver is a Blast from the Past with Huge Potential
It’s really hard not to get sick of Early Access roadmaps masquerading as playable games. Nowdays, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a dozen such games. When Blood Reaver dropped into our lap promising a gritty, dark-fantasy co-op shooter, we couldn’t help but roll out eyes, thinking: here comes another one. But then we…
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Bringing Classic Warhammer Games Back from the Dead
There is a unique kind of heartbreak familiar to veteran PC gamer. You dust off a beloved CD-ROM from the late 90s. You slot it into a modern rig. And, finally, before you even get to try your favorite snack, you are met with a wall of compatibility errors. For decades, preserving digital history has…
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Ereban: Shadow Legacy: One Hell of a Prototype
A while back, we saw the trailer for Ereban: Shadow Legacy. A cyborg ninja girl melts into the floor. Our first thought was of an edgy Splatoon of sorts. Then, we forgot it even existed. While the PC version slipped under our radar, the recent PS5 release caught our eye. Based on the trailer and…
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Pigeon: A Love Story Demo Flies into Steam
Developers Wristworks and Tiny Dragon Games recently launched a playable demo on Steam alongside the London Games Festival. In Pigeon: A Love Story you step into the role of a pigeon. Guess what you do? No, not that, pooping on heads seems like it’s not part of the game (yet? fingers-crossed). But, it is cool…
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Regions of Ruin: Runegate: Will you clock in?
We’re not sure if we’re a hero or just a middle manager with a sword. In Regions of Ruin: Runegate, you’re basically bleeding food to keep a settlement alive. It sometimes feel as exhausting as it is ambitious. It’s a sprawling loop of side-scrolling combat and town management that somehow makes “grinding for apples” feel…
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Tense, Claustrophobic Arcade Survival in Subway Invasion
Developed by QH Studios and published by indie.io, Subway Invasion is a first-person shooter that drops you into the shoes of a regular transit security guard. You are stuck underground and tasked with defending a train full of panicking civilians from an extraterrestrial assault. No need for exploration. Your focus is on the dark, claustrophobic…
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Before Fate is a Gorgeous Survival Trip
You play as a brilliant scientist trying to save the universe. It sounds epic. But then the hunger meter drops. Before Fate takes the standard survival grind, filters it through a stunning 1970s comic book aesthetic, and throws in classic point-and-click puzzles. It’s a huge achievement for the studio. It also comes with some serious…
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Restore Your Island is a Cozy Trash Sim
Try as we might, we simply can’t have enough of the cozy games. We are tired, however, of inheriting all the dead relatives’ properties. We still want cozy games, just not the same type of cozy. Fifty farms are enough, thank you very much. When Restore Your Island crossed our screens, we braced ourselves for…
