Tag: Reviews
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Blood Reaver is a Blast from the Past with Huge Potential
It’s really hard not to get sick of Early Access roadmaps masquerading as playable games. Nowdays, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a dozen such games. When Blood Reaver dropped into our lap promising a gritty, dark-fantasy co-op shooter, we couldn’t help but roll out eyes, thinking: here comes another one. But then we…
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Bringing Classic Warhammer Games Back from the Dead
There is a unique kind of heartbreak familiar to veteran PC gamer. You dust off a beloved CD-ROM from the late 90s. You slot it into a modern rig. And, finally, before you even get to try your favorite snack, you are met with a wall of compatibility errors. For decades, preserving digital history has…
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Ereban: Shadow Legacy: One Hell of a Prototype
A while back, we saw the trailer for Ereban: Shadow Legacy. A cyborg ninja girl melts into the floor. Our first thought was of an edgy Splatoon of sorts. Then, we forgot it even existed. While the PC version slipped under our radar, the recent PS5 release caught our eye. Based on the trailer and…
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Pigeon: A Love Story Demo Flies into Steam
Developers Wristworks and Tiny Dragon Games recently launched a playable demo on Steam alongside the London Games Festival. In Pigeon: A Love Story you step into the role of a pigeon. Guess what you do? No, not that, pooping on heads seems like it’s not part of the game (yet? fingers-crossed). But, it is cool…
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Regions of Ruin: Runegate: Will you clock in?
We’re not sure if we’re a hero or just a middle manager with a sword. In Regions of Ruin: Runegate, you’re basically bleeding food to keep a settlement alive. It sometimes feel as exhausting as it is ambitious. It’s a sprawling loop of side-scrolling combat and town management that somehow makes “grinding for apples” feel…
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Before Fate is a Gorgeous Survival Trip
You play as a brilliant scientist trying to save the universe. It sounds epic. But then the hunger meter drops. Before Fate takes the standard survival grind, filters it through a stunning 1970s comic book aesthetic, and throws in classic point-and-click puzzles. It’s a huge achievement for the studio. It also comes with some serious…
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Restore Your Island is a Cozy Trash Sim
Try as we might, we simply can’t have enough of the cozy games. We are tired, however, of inheriting all the dead relatives’ properties. We still want cozy games, just not the same type of cozy. Fifty farms are enough, thank you very much. When Restore Your Island crossed our screens, we braced ourselves for…
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Is Starfield on PS5 a Glorious Fixer-Upper?
When Bethesda first dropped this massive space RPG, it sometimes felt a bit like playing a spreadsheet interrupted by loading screens. But years of patches and loud fans forced their hand. Now it’s on PS5 with the huge “Free Lanes” update and the “Terran Armada” DLC. Against all odds, the game is much better now.…
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People of Note is a passionate gig you shouldn’t skip
A turan-based RPG musical where you literally fight to the beat sounds like a recipe for disaster. But, Stray Gods was also a musical and we love that game to death. People of Note is a game that has a lot on its plate. And yet, somehow, it actually pulls it off. It has the…
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Skull Horde: A Great Bone Pile of Fun
There are way too many auto-battlers right now. It’s a giant pile of cheap games meant to steal your free time. But sometimes, a good game climbs out of the trash. One such game is Skull Horde. Playing as a floating skull, your job is to build an army. And then to kill endless waves…
