Tag: books
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Dancing with Ghosts: Finding Joy after Loss
Dancing with Ghosts looks like a cheerful, cozy storybook adventure where you get to spend time helping people, making food, dancing, driving a boat and generally being useful around a beautiful little Thai village. Underneath all that, though, there is a surprisingly sad story about grief, loneliness and, most importantly, trying to find some reason…
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Tempest Rising: The Return of Classic RTS Action in a Post-Apocalyptic World
In the near future, planet Earth is tragically devastated by a global nuclear conflict, leaving survivors in an uncompromising struggle for scarce remaining resources and fragile power. Emerging into this post-apocalyptic setting is Tempest Rising, a title that marks a significant return to the roots of the real-time strategy (RTS) genre, drawing direct inspiration from…
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Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster — The Refreshed Chronicle of Gaia
The universe of Anima: Beyond Fantasy was originally born through the pages of popular tabletop RPG books, featuring deep mythology and a unique blend of Western gothic fantasy with Eastern anime aesthetics. The digital adaptation of this universe through the Gate of Memories series is an exceptionally ambitious attempt to bring that complexity into an…
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Woman Simulator Review: Cooking, cleaning, laundry and trying to keep the hubby happy
We play all kinds of games and whenever we sit down after work and put our headphones on, we want to escape bitter reality and do all kinds of things closely connected to chaos incarnate. So, you’ll forgive us, dear reader, if we’ve never washed our dishes, done our laundry, cleaned our toilet and then…
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Tiny Flock Review: Sheep, Physics and a Lot of Bad Ideas
Between Control Resonant, Dune: Awakening and Onimusha, we have had quite a busy month. Those three games seem like some of the most complex games we’ve played this autumn, and if there’s one thing we’d like to do when reviewing AAA games back to back, it’s get some rest in between with a less demanding…
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Interview about Farming, Friends and a Race Against the Clock: Innerfire Studios on Building Farming Camp
Farming games are all about growing crops, taking care of animals, fishing, talking to the locals and slowly building our little corner of the world. Innerfire Studios’ game combines farming with points, team-based chores, minigames, relationships and a strict daily schedule. It does that and more. It keeps the cozy side of the experience intact.…
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Songs of Glimmerwick Review: Music is the New Magic
Welcome to Songs of Glimmerwick. Here, dear reader, we arrive at the Etchery School of Magic and Melody, we pick up a flute and start learning that music is the foundation of magic. It’s a magical world where songs become spells. With our growing collection of melodies, we can, for example, raise the ground to…
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Star Wars Isn’t a Genre, and Its Best Games Know It
We’re pleased to share this guest piece by Søren Ahrensborg Kamper From X-Wing and Dark Forces to KOTOR and Zero Company, the license has been at its strongest when developers let another genre set the rules. Star Wars looks like it should be a genre. It has lightsabers, starfighters, stormtroopers, smugglers, Jedi, Sith and enough…
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Interview: How Sous Raccoon Turned a University Project Into a Chaotic Roguelite
What started as a university graduation project has grown into a surprisingly chaotic restaurant game where the raccoon doesn’t actually do any cooking. Here, you’re running around the restaurant, delivering ingredients, protecting customers and dealing with monsters while the Chef does the cooking. Sous Raccoon has since moved into Early Access, with new content, controller…
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SiN Reloaded Review — Another Shot for The Underdog
SiN games are proof that games can become more interesting the older they get. Unlike wine, they may not have aged particularly well, but they can show us how strange, ambitious and sometimes downright crazy they were for their time. Ritual Entertainment released this bad boy in 1998. We played it five years later when…
