In 1988, Nintendo released Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir upon the Famicom Disk System. Though the lack of global release meant it’s long been an obscurity outside its home country, it made quite the splash in Japan. For one thing, it gave Yoshio Sakamoto—best known for his work on …
Don’t Forget Me, the debut outing from The Moon Pirates, is an intriguing premise. A “new breed of puzzle game” that combines adventure game puzzles with keyword-driven exploration of people’s memories, it’s a unique take on cyberpunk and complex moral thought experiment on individuality and freedom—if one that feels a …
Famicom Detective Club is not something I would ever have expected to see on Nintendo Switch. A pair of relatively obscure adventure ’80s Famicom adventure games that never saw a worldwide release doesn’t exactly seem like it’d be a high priority for the remake treatment. But here we are, and …
Plenty of games dive head-first into the eternal question about the meaning of life. Plenty of games tell stories about redemption, about what people will do to clear a guilty conscience. But I’ve never played anything that explores these themes quite like Adios; it turns out that a short-form story …
At the Future Games Festival on Friday, The Moon Pirates announced a release date for its upcoming “jazz-punk mind-manipulation adventure game” detective adventure game, Don’t Forget Me. It comes to Windows, Mac, and Linux on April 20. Taking inspiration from the likes of Her Story and Red Strings Club, Don’t …
Unfolded: Camellia Tales is now available on Steam, giving players a chance to explore the folklore and tragic history of Korea’s Jeju Island through puzzles, poetry, and hand-drawn art. With Unfolded, South Korean indie studio COSDOTS aims to shed some light on the Jeju Uprising of 1948, when the violent …
In a surreal land without a past, frozen in time, a lone birch sapling sits on a pedestal, its roots dangling into the water below. When a strange creature gives you a set of test tubes and informs you that the fate of the world is tied to that of …
During Square Enix’s showcase this morning, the company announced the next chapter of the acclaimed Life is Strange series. Life is Strange: True Colors is in development at Deck Nine, the team behind the excellent (if a little underrated) Life is Strange: Before the Storm. True Colors is the story …
Heaven’s Vault is a stunning achievement in innovative game design and non-linear narrative, woven through a story about the importance of understanding history. Usually when a game has a translation element, it’s limited to decoding a cipher: the words are all English (or whatever language you’re playing in), with letters …
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 …
