Tag: Reviews
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Aphelion: Good Adventure from a Great Studio
DON’T NOD had us from the very start. We absolutely loved the first Life is Strange, while Vampyr was incredibly unique for its time, and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden was one of the best games we’ve played. To us, they simply can’t go wrong. We were extremely excited about Aphelion; we couldn’t wait to…
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’83 Hides Potential for Fun Cold War Shootout
We’ve never been big fans of tactical shooters and that’s not because they aren’t good, far from it. We’re just terrible at them. Spending twenty minutes crawling through a ditch only to be dropped by a sniper you never saw is a specialized kind of ego bruising. ’83 seems to step back from that hyper…
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Wartales’ Capital is a Bureaucratic Bloodbath
We drag our mercenary company through the mud for dozens of hours. We survived the starvation and brutal low-fantasy grit of the base game. Then, we were brave enough to fight off privateers in the Pirates of Belerion expansion and we also poured cheap ale just to make payroll in The Tavern Opens! Finally reaching…
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Don’t Lose Aggro Makes MMO Babysitting Playable
Depending on how you look at it, tanking in MMOs is either a miserable chore or a noble calling. If you’re like us, you can’t help but see it as acting like a glorified babysitter for caffeinated DPS players. So, when we saw a game built entirely around this (often thankless) mechanic, it felt like…
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Striving for Light Season 2: The Era of Darkness Update
Season 2 of Striving for Light is dropping soon, and the Era of Darkness is one sweet update that massively overhauls the game. It shakes up the core gameplay with: The game is being sold with 30% discount until May 8 Controlling the Map The Druid is a new nature-magic class that relies heavily on…
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Sudden Strike 5: Welcoming Continuation
We’ve always been huge fans of the Sudden Strike series. We fondly remember back in 2000 what a joy the title from the Russian studio Fireglow Games brought us. They essentially wrote the blueprint for the real-time tactics genre, stripping out the tedious base building and resource farming that dominated the era. It was refreshing…
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PC Game Pass Suggestions: 3 Great Worlds to Get Lost In
Welcome to the PC Game Pass Suggestions series. Every two weeks, we look through the huge Game Pass library to find the most interesting hidden gems and big new games that are truly worth your time. If you are new here, what is Game Pass? Think of it as “Netflix for video games.” It is…
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Reptilian Rising is a Brilliant and Chaotic Toybox
When we first booted up Reptilian Rising, it felt like a fever dream—something pulled straight out of a 1980s basement. In this turn-based tactical game, we found genocidal, time-traveling lizards fighting history’s heavy hitters. The more we played, the weirder it got, a feeling doubly emphasized by the Saturday morning cartoon vibes. If you, like…
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Atomic Heart Ends With a Bloody Bang
Mundfish sure took its sweet time with Atomic Heart. We’re definitely not complaining that it took them three years to figure out how to end the main story. In those three years we witnessed split timelines, weird platforming detours, and mechanical overcorrections. It’s no secret how much we love this game and how giddy with…
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Gorilla Showdown: Rhythm Meets Carnage
Imagine just for a moment an arena shooter where you dodge bullets from heavily armed monkeys. Now, on top of that, imagine trying to hold a musical rhythm. It shouldn’t work, right? But in Sloth King’s just released Gorilla Showdown, it absolutely does. It easily could have been a gimmick, but ends up being a…
