Tag: writing
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No Stone Unturned is a Fun Detective Game
When an indie game about an amnesiac squirrel trying to solve a chicken’s murder pops up, you simply can’t pass up the opportunity to check it out. We aren’t master puzzle solvers. In fact, we usually hate puzzles; they just aren’t our thing. It absolutely destroys our will to play a game when we run…
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KIBORG: A Tough but Fun Sci-Fi Brawler
You know how there are those games with massive worlds, sprawling stories, and deep moral choices? They are fun, but the sheer scope of them can also be very tiring. Sometimes, we just want to jump into something straightforward. KIBORG is exactly that. You wake up in a sci-fi prison and your only real goal…
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GUILD WARS REFORGED is Launching on Mobile this Summer
Well, this was something that we definitely didn’t expect. We’re getting a mobile version of Guild Wars Reforged later this summer. It made us beyond happy, and we didn’t even know we wanted something like this. The game is coming to both Apple and Android phones with a control layout built around touchscreens rather than…
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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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Monkeys on a Dance Pad: Behind the Chaos of Gorilla Showdown
Standing out in the multiplayer shooter market requires a unique hook. Indie studio Sloth King’s approach is handing eleven weaponized primates an assault rifle and telling them to fight over a glowing dance floor. Gorilla Showdown, as we’ve explained in detai here, is a frantic mashup of a 12-player arena shooter and a beat-matching rhythm…
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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…
