Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest combines visual novel, RPG, and comic book influences for a fascinating exploration of environmentalism and Polish werewolf folklore. In 2016, the Polish government announced plans to triple the logging limit for Bialowieza Forest, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Europe …
With The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, a true epic finally comes (mostly) to a close. Spanning four games, each one clocking in at some 80 hours, simply playing through all Trails of Cold Steel is a mammoth undertaking (before you even factor in other Legend of …
It’s always a risky move, as a developer, to directly cite an inspiration for your game. By doing so, you inevitably invite comparison, and the bigger and more influential the inspiration you cite, the harder it becomes for that comparison to turn out favourably. So when the blurb for Sunlight …
Before The Walking Dead, before The Wolf Among Us, there was Sam & Max. Based on a comic by Steve Purcell and one of LucasArts’ point-and-click classics (Sam & Max Hit the Road), Telltale’s episodic games about an anthropomorphic dog detective and an “hyperkinetic rabbity thing” helped to lay the …
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a stroke of genius. I can’t be the only one with fond memories of playing with Mario Kart toys as a kid—both a kid-sized kid and an adult-sized kid—using everyday household objects to build Micro Machines-esque courses and have my little karts “race” around …
With its two screens, touchscreen (in a time before smartphones made them commonplace), and stylus, the Nintendo DS presented a novel way of interacting with games that plenty of developers put to great use. Drawn to Life was one such game, a platformer built around players drawing their own characters, …
Super Meat Boy didn’t invent the masocore platformer, but it certainly helped popularise it. A bloody chunk of meat makes for a surprisingly charming hero, it turns out, while its precise controls, inventive level design, and instant respawns made a captivating experience out of what might otherwise have been a …
When it comes to videogames, Warhammer might be best known for its strategy games—and fair enough, given the series’ tabletop wargaming origins. But it’s a world and setting that also lends itself naturally to Diablo-style action RPGs, with a whole assortment of monsters, character classes, heroes, and villains to draw …
When The Past Was Around is bittersweet, haunting, beautiful. A tale of love, loss, and grief, it delves into memories of a young woman coming to terms with the passing of the love of her life. It’s a short, powerful adventure—one that you’ll complete in a little over an hour, …
Collection of Saga: Final Fantasy Legend brings three classic Game Boy RPGs to Switch that have aged surprisingly well, and offers a welcome trip into the SaGa series’ history. I can vaguely recall playing The Final Fantasy Legend for the first time, some 20 or so years ago. Final Fantasy …
