Tag: video-games
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KuloNiku Serves Up Turn-Based Tension
Ah, the undeniable beauty that’s the “cozy” genre. Little by little, it’s become a dumping ground for tedious chore simulators pretending to be some glorified, mental health retreats. KuloNiku: Bowl Up! looks like another generic ‘save grandma’s shop’ story. Don’t fall for it. This isn’t a relaxing tea break. It’s a high-stress restaurant shift disguised…
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Goblin Cleanup is Viscera Cleanup in a Fantasy Sweatshop
Forget the power fantasy. It’s overrated anyway. We’ve spent thirty years kicking down dungeon doors, massacring dark legions, slaughtering the indigenous wildlife, and stripping chests bare. But, what about the aftermath? Did you ever stop to think about the poor bastards who have to mop up the goblin brains before the next party of try-hards…
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The Beauty and Brutallity of Morbid Metal
Seven years. Seven years is a long time for a game to be in the oven. Usually, when a solo passion project cooks for that long, it ends up being a bloated and outdated mess by the time it finally comes out. Morbid Metal shouldn’t work. It started back in 2017 as Felix Schade’s college…
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Could Ardenfall be the Old-School RPG Sandbox We’ve Been Waiting For?
Ardenfall is shaping up to be the exact kind of old-school, hands-off RPG that Morrowind fans have been begging for. Instead of the usual elves-and-orcs fantasy, it drops you into a weird, politically charged world full of windy plains, alien coastlines, and ancient ruins. The demo has been available for a while now, so feel…
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Froggy Hates Snow: Shoveling Through This Frantic Survival Roguelike
Froggy Hates Snow drops you into a freezing wasteland as an amphibian who just wants to stay warm. It’s a survival roguelike where you literally dig your own paths through the map, shoveling snow to uncover loot, dodge traps, and fight off creepy obsidian monsters before the cold takes you out. What you find here…
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‘BUS: Bro u Survived’ Turns a School Bus Into a Zombie-Clearing War Machine
BUS: Bro u Survived seems like a chaotic, co-op road trip that trades the usual stationary base camp for four wheels and a whole lot of horsepower. The island isn’t just crawling with angry green freaks; it’s practically a warzone thanks to two rival human factions fighting for control. As you drive from zone to…
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Cursed Blood: Violent and Stress-Relieving Fever Dream
Cursed Blood hands four people virtual katanas. Then, it tells them to go absolutely go bananas and see what happens. Literally. You are playing as a samurai ape. And it simply couldn’t be cooler. It kinda sounds like a bad joke from a 2012 message board. But Cursed Blood doesn’t care about high art or…
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Legacy of Kain: Ascendance – Nostalgia Over Substance?
Twenty-three years. That’s how long it’s been since Kain and Raziel last traded Shakespearean barbs. Now they’re back. But not in the AAA blockbuster the diehards wanted. Instead, we got a 2D pixel-art platformer that occasionally morphs into a PS1 demake and randomly throws anime at your retinas. It sounds like a rom-hack fever dream.…
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Daniel Baumann’s Autobattler Revolution
It isn’t every day that a developer walks away from the towering monoliths of the gaming industry to start from scratch. After a career spent navigating the sprawling, high-stakes trenches of AAA studios like EA, Blizzard, and Tencent, Daniel Baumann decided it was time for a change of scenery. Enter Respite Games, a newly minted…
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Cinderia is a Beautiful yet Clunky Engine of Destruction
If I were a betting man, I’d say we’re all getting a bit tired of the apocalypse. Every other week, a new indie darling drops onto Steam. Each game asks us to save some charred wasteland from a generic corruption. Cinderia presents itself as a dark fairytale. In this story, a witch burned the world.…
