Tag: review
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Arctic Drive Demo: A Promising Drive Through the Frozen Wilderness
As big fans of The Long Dark, we gladly jumped at the opportunity to check out Arctic Drive and take an old car into a frozen wilderness, trying to survive with whatever supplies we can find. Arctic Drive combines driving, scavenging, crafting, and survival. In a way, our car serves as our main companion as…
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Necesse: An Endless World of Adventure
Necesse has been in development for years at Denmark’s indie studio Fair Games. At first glance, it might look inspired by Terraria or Starbound, but beneath its charming pixelated graphics, Necesse hides a deep, complex system skillfully combining building, exploration, combat and managing your own colony. It’s a procedurally generated, endless world where your task…
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The Trolley Solution Review – A Little Bit of Moral Chaos
There’s a joke we heard at work that somehow stuck with us. A driver’s brakes completely fail. He has two options: swerve left and hit a group of ten people, or swerve right and hit one guy. He ends up hitting all eleven. Later at the police station, the officer asks, “How on earth did…
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Duelist: Idle Expedition Review – Our Little Army Has a Lot of Work to Do
Duelist: Idle Expedition is a game, or perhaps a companion app, that lets us hire a small army of fantasy adventurers and leave all the dangerous work to them while we get on with everything else. Our cute little pixel-art warriors fight monsters, collect loot and challenge powerful opponents, all while their little world quietly…
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Earth vs Mars Review: Interplanetary Conflict
Earth vs Mars is an interesting experiment from Relic Labs, a smaller division within the well-known Relic Entertainment studio, focused on creating more concentrated, innovative titles outside its usual enormous productions. EvM casts you as commanders of Earth’s defense forces facing a catastrophic invasion from Mars. This idea draws strong inspiration from mid-20th-century science-fiction B-movies,…
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Four Indie Developers #1: Playtesting, Bad Ideas, Nostalgia and the Things That Keep Games Fun
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had the absolute pleasure of talking to four indie developers about four very different games. We’ve discussed murder mysteries, anime romance, farming competitions, old-school beat ’em ups and Nintendo 64 shooters. We’ve asked about gameplay mechanics, storytelling, unusual design decisions and some of the problems that developers encounter while…
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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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Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush Edition: A Long Road Ahead
Between so many great AAA games we had the opportunity to just sit back and relax with our steam deck playing, well, reading primarily a good story travelling across the American Southwest with characters we enjoy being around. Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush Edition is an oldie but a goodie on PC. It recently got out…
