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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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