Mechs in fantasy, something that sounds so good together one might be surprised to find themselves hard pressed to think of enough games to count past one hand if asked to name them all. Chained Echoes is basically the coolest piece of future technology placed in a tumultuous medieval era, but that’s not even the…
Fredd Eyles / Guest Post / PC / PS4 / PS5 / Review / Switch / Xbox One / Xbox Series S/X
There are so many videogames with the Warhammer license that it is becoming difficult to keep track of them. Almost every genre is being experimented with and only a handful of them hit the mark. Unfortunately, Warhammer 40k: Shootas, Blood & Teef is no different than the ones that are going to go into the…
Alex Cumming / PC / PS4 / PS5 / Review / Xbox One / Xbox Series S/X
Asterigos is a soulslike game for beginners, and more or less all aspects of the game follow that formula. While straight forward and with simpler encounter design, it offers a lot for those who want to get into the genre but find it daunting. There are some amateurish design flaws, the flow can be a…
Alex Cumming / PC / PS4 / PS5 / Review / Switch / Xbox One / Xbox Series S/X
This may well be called a replica, as the term ‘inspired by’ is more than a little tame. If Airoheart were on the SNES, it would be comparable to Link to the Past the same way Secret of Evermore is to Secret of Mana. Capturing the retro feel, this game is pretty much exactly what…
Guest Post / Ian Voegtle / PC / PS4 / PS5 / Review
Lost Epic is a 2D action-RPG with beautiful character and world designs. Brought to us by “Team Earth Wars”, the developer of Earth’s Dawn, Lost Epic is only their second release. A mixture of many different gameplay elements, Lost Epic attempts to meld the best elements of all your favourite RPGs into one sprawling adventure;…
With the recent surge in popularity for the asymmetrical multiplayer genre it seems as though all of the most popular horror movies are prime candidates to receive this video game treatment. With their worlds built on a group of survivors battling against some supernatural manifestation of evil, it’s really more of a question of which…
Absolute Tactics is a solid strategy RPG with a bit of humourous edginess and sharp but simple design. Being the product of a very small indie team, it has solid length and is overall competently made, while being easy to play and follow the story. This is a fairly consistent game; it has colourful visuals…
Considering how much of a slob I am in real life, it is really odd how much I enjoy cleaning stuff in video games. Whether it’s tidying up a mountain side in Minecraft, scouring blood and guts off a wall in Viscera Cleanup Detail, or vacuuming up muck in The Gunk, there is something satisfying…
I will not pretend I was excited for this game, and if you are curious why consider checking out my review for Sword and Fairy 6, the previous game in the franchise. Luckily, you don’t have to play that one as this series of games is more or less Chinese Final Fantasy, with titles being…
Bright Memory: Infinite is a single player first person shooter with melee combat brought to us by FYQD Personal Studios. Players take the role of Shelia, a special agent from the SRO who is sent to the site of a major incident to save the world. A black hole has appeared in the sky, and…
This is about as classic a dlc as you’ll ever get these days, Blue Sun is effectively just an expansion of the game world; whether that is a good or bad thing is hard to say. Blue Sun adds three large new zones to the world, there’s no hint to where to start these areas…
The beat ‘em up genre was popular in the mid-1980s and early 90s. Chances are, your local arcade carried at least one beat ‘em up. This genre eventually made its way to home consoles but became saturated quickly. However, some titles, such as Streets of Rage, stood the test of time and have returned to…
Salt & Sacrifice by Ska Studios is the sequel to Salt & Sanctuary, a game that took Dark Souls gameplay and delivered a side-scrolling masterpiece. The second entry in the Salt franchise has made changes to the formula, some of which may have returning fans excited and others frustrated. Starting off with character creation, you…
Lovecraftian horror has been the inspiration for a wide variety of art, its influence seen in every type of gaming from puzzles to walking simulators to action RPGs and shooters. At this point, the chaos of the unfamiliar has started to become familiar, many of his monsters are easy recognizable, so while this roguelike platformer…
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