When it comes to psychological horror games with a deeply atmospheric surreal bent, few can match Bloober Team. Layers of Fear and Layers of Fear 2 are fine examples of that, delving as they do into the fractured psyche of an artist and filmmaker, respectively, but Observer might just be …
After two iterations of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and Theatrhythm Dragon Quest, it was only a matter of time before Kingdom Hearts got its own rhythm game spinoff. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is that game, and though it doesn’t carry “Theatrhythm” in its name, the legacy of those other games …
Takumi Nakazawa’s acclaimed psychological thriller visual novel Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition is now available on Switch. Root Double draws on the Enneagram of Personality for a dramatic story spanning multiple different scenarios seen from a different character’s perspectives, with some 40 different endings. Rather than …
Overcooked! All You Can Eat brings the frantic cooking action of Overcooked! to the new generation with some welcome new levels and features. Ghost Town Games’ Overcooked!, first released in 2016, took a clever, unique concept and delivered it to perfection. A frantic, hilarious party game that sees players trying …
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas was a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat derivative, Zelda-style action adventure game. It used its comparatively low budget and short form in its favour, capturing much of the Zelda magic in a game that never overstayed its welcome. By comparison, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost …
Popular side-scrolling MMORPG MapleStory will soon see a collaboration with K-pop superstars BTS, thanks to a partnership between Big Hit Entertainment and Nexon. There’s not much detail yet about what the in-game part of the collab will involve, but in the lead-up to it, there’ll be three behind-the-scenes videos with …
Eku Takeshima’s Whisper Me a Love Song gets off to a great start in its first volume, laying the groundwork for a super-cute yuri romantic comedy about the comical misunderstandings and awkward moments that the word “love” can bring. Is there any word in the world more complicated than “love”? …
If you want to try out Warcave’s upcoming turn-based strategy RPG Black Legend ahead of its release next year, you’re in luck: there’s now a free demo for it on Steam. The demo covers the first hour or so of the Black Legend, giving players a look at some of …
Fans of Square Enix’s experimental Nintendo DS RPG The World Ends With You have long been pleading for a follow-up. Those wishes are finally coming true with NEO: The World Ends With You, a brand new game that’s in development for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch and planned for a …
PlayStation 5 brings Sackboy, the burlap hero of Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet series, into a new dimension. In the hands of Sumo Digital, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet 3, Sackboy: A Big Adventure puts a 3D platformer spin on things, with all the colourful creativity of its precursors. It’s missing a little …
