Tag: news
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Interview: How Weird Beluga Built the 3D Clockpunk Action of Duskfade
Weird Beluga made their debut with Clid the Snail, a top-down twin-stick shooter. Their new game, Duskfade, shifts to a full 3D action-platformer set in a sunless, clockpunk world. Moving from a locked camera to a fully player-controlled 3D environment requires a complete overhaul in how a team designs levels, combat, and movement. We spoke…
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Doloc Town: Cozy Farming in a Post-Apocalyptic World
When we first visited Doloc Town during Early Access, the foundations were already there. Farming felt good, exploration kept pulling us forward, and the setting had far more personality than we expected. Version 1.0 adds enough meaningful content and smart improvements that returning players have a good reason to come back. What starts as another…
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Gunstoppable Review – Pure Adrenaline Without a Speed Limit
Gunstoppable is a game that couldn’t care less about taking covers/ shmawers or thinking carefully about every, single encounter. Who even has time for that nowadays? This is a game that throws you into arenas and shows you how standing still for even a second feels like failure. Every mechanic is built around one simple…
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Mazey Village Preview: Getting Lost Has Never Been This Cozy
In Mazey Village we play as a young cartographer whose job isn’t to copy maps that already exist but to venture into the unknown and create entirely new ones. It’s a simple premise that immediately gives exploration a different meaning. Every path we discover, every hidden corner we uncover and every puzzle we solve quite…
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Interview with Kornelius Briedis about Building Rogue Drone
Kornelius Briedis is developing Rogue Drone, a game that combines active resource gathering, base-building automation, and tower defense. Merging these genres often leads to complex, clashing mechanics. In Rogue Drone, players mine crystals during the day and manage a shared power grid to survive automated enemy raids at night. We spoke with Briedis about how…
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Forever Skies Review: Ambitious Survival Game
Forever Skies is a game that, unlike typical survival games, allows us to survive high above Earth, not on it. Developed by Far From Home—a studio made up of developers who previously worked on titles like Dying Light and Outriders—Forever Skies mixes exploration, survival, and base building. After losing ourselves in the full release and…
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Interview: How Hit Start Nailed Co-Op in Brave Escape
Making a game where two players have to move in perfect sync is tough. Hit Start Studios took that on with Brave Escape, a platformer that makes players rely on a core set of rope and boost moves. After a solid PC launch, the studio brought the game to consoles. Game Designer Steve Ciaramitaro explained…
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Atomic Picnic Review – Memorable Bullet Heaven!
Atomic Picnic is an action roguelite that thrives on the joy of the movement mechanic. From the moment we stepped into its bright, anime-inspired world, we found ourselves bouncing, grappling, and flying across arenas with an energy that never really faded. Your main tools are the various Impulse Gears, and they’re much more than simple…
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Lost & Found: Returning to One of Indie Gaming’s Best Mysteries
Some games leave an impression while you’re playing them. Others stay with you long after the credits roll. This Bed We Made belongs firmly in the second category. We finished it during a cold afternoon back in November 2023, and despite its relatively short runtime, we still find ourselves thinking about it often. Whenever someone…
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Expeditions: Samurai Early Access: A Strong First Step Into Feudal Japan
History has inspired plenty of strategy games over the years, but, for the life of us, we can’t think of a lot of RPGs that throw us into the middle of a real conflict and let us shape its outcome ourselves. Set during Japan’s Sengoku period, Expeditions: Samurai lands us on Japanese shores and throws…
