Until recently, I’d taken it as a given that a 4X strategy game‘Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate’ – a genre of strategy game that puts focus on things like economy, technology, and diplomacy as well as military might would be nigh impossible to make work on any console, let alone with …
It’s not unusual for a Japanese arcade hit to never see the light of day in the West, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating for fans (or would-be fans) of a particular game. Such has long been the case for drum-based rhythm game Taiko no Tatsujin: it’s been …
Divinity: Original Sin II is a very good game. I’m not convinced that it’s one of the greatest RPGs of all time, as many have suggested, but it delivers on an ambitious goal remarkably well: to create an open-ended but narratively rich role-playing experience, where there’s myriad paths before you …
Francisco González has a way of building worlds that are at once familiar and unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Whether it’s the 1920s Miami of A Golden Wake or the post-apocalyptic dystopia of Shardlight, González creates worlds that could easily be cliche in the hands of a less-skilled writer, …
Wadjet Eye consistently puts out some of the best modern point and click adventure games. You can always rely on them to weave a gripping and insightful story, whether it’s the post-apocalyptic musings of Shardlight and Primordia or the ghostly escapades of the Blackwell series. They always deliver classic adventure …
This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s played the first game, but La-Mulana 2 is hard. Tricky platforming and cryptic puzzles will stretch your reactions and problem-solving ability, while cruel traps await any adventurer who gets to reckless. La-Mulana 2 may be more streamlined in its design, but …
Though it’s not billed as such, Omensight is very much a sequel to Spearhead Games’ Stories: The Path of Destinies: it’s set in the same wartorn fantasy world, tells a similar time-hopping story, and shares the same action RPG mechanics and Groundhog Day-esque game structure. But Omensight takes those good …
I’d be fascinated to see the design documents for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (and for the first game as well, while we’re at it.) For a game with such expansive, detailed lore and such a complicated web of choices and consequences, the paperwork just for planning everything out must …
What does romantic love mean to you? That’s a question that Solo wants you to think about—to really, really think about. What would you sacrifice for love? What does love look like? What does love feel like? Have you ever truly been in love? Will you ever love again? Solo …
Bullet Witch is a clunky, messy game. It was clearly made on a very low budget, and it looked dated even when it first came out for Xbox 360 in 2006. If you’re the kind of person that needs your games to be polished and pristine, with production values coming …
