Tag: Reviews
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Tiny Capsule Collector Review – Just One More Capsule!
We love opening mystery boxes or, in this case, capsules. We never know exactly what’s inside, and even when we get something we already have, there’s always the temptation to try again. Tiny Capsule Collector wonderfully uses this obsession and turns it into a cozy desktop game where we manage our own Gachapon shop, collect…
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Nobody Wanted to Be the Zombie: Galin on Making Disbond Fun for Everyone
Galin remembers a particular problem with the old zombie mods in Counter-Strike: Source: nobody wanted to be the zombie. Shooting the infected was great fun, but being the target of all those bullets was another story. With Disbond, the multiplayer shooter he’s developing under Bozz Studio, he wanted the infected players to have just as…
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Hubert Review – Being a Good Dog Is Hard Work
Taking care of sheep sounds like a reasonably easy job, especially when you have four legs and a powerful bark. It makes perfect sense to us but, unfortunately, nobody seems to have explained this to the sheep. Hubert, developed by Brocap Studio, is a game that cutely puts us in the paws of an enthusiastic,…
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33 Days till Extraction Review – An Army of the Dead and a Kitchen to Run
33 Days till Extraction doesn’t make a good first impression. Its opening slides throw around all sorts of grand-sounding terms, apparently suggesting some incredibly deep lore that we never really learn anything about. The artwork doesn’t help matters. We’re looking at these enormous, Halo-inspired soldiers wearing armor with shoulder pads that seem almost comically impractical.…
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Shardwatch Dominion Review – Surrounded and Outnumbered on PS5
Shardwatch Dominion is a tower defence game where monsters attack from every direction as we try to protect a fortress with a limited number of towers and resources. Developed for consoles by Huge Pixel and published by Brainium Games, this cheap-as-chips strategy game has a few interesting ideas for those who enjoy planning defences and…
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Everlast: Undying Tale Review – Being Undead Is Hard Work
Everlast: Undying Tale is an interesting choice for players who enjoy old-school MMORPG progression. If you’re perfectly okay with spending an afternoon mining ore or improving a crafting skill rather than fighting monsters, then this could be right up your alley. Developer InSpades combines those familiar systems with real-time combat, a colorful fantasy world, and…
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No Death Goes to Waste: Team Trifold on Nothing Lost, Fallen Heroes, and Breaking Roguelike Rules
Nothing Lost, the debut action-roguelike from Team Trifold is based on the idea that the heroes who die in the Tower of Souls leave behind powers that their successors can use. A bad run, therefore, might still be useful to someone. Team Trifold is a small studio in Christchurch, New Zealand, established with support from…
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Cute & Dead Review – Love in the Time of Zombies
We’ve heard of people going to great lengths to impress someone they like. We mean, we saw something similar not long ago in Stupid Never Dies, but fighting through a zombie apocalypse just to get a date is taking things a little too far. Or being a tad desperate. Or both. We’re not judging, though,…
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Thank You Bus Driver Review – A Little Gratitude Goes a Long Way
We’ve been working for most of our lives, and we’ve learned that even though thank-yous can’t pay the rent, getting a simple “thank you” can be surprisingly hard work. In Thank You Bus Driver, Double Fine puts us behind the wheel of a bus and has us transport passengers while enforcing ridiculous rules. It’s a…
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Wonderia Review – A Litle Planet with Big Ambitions
Wonderia is a game that adds a colourful alien world and some wonderfully strange creatures to keep us magical company as we chop down trees, gather resources and build shelters. Developed by Rock&Dash, this charming adventure combines elements of Core Keeper, Terraria and Animal Crossing. As fans of all three games, it’s refreshing to see…
