Will O’Neill’s Little Red Lie is a challenging game. I don’t mean that the way people usually do when they describe a game as “challenging”—after all, there’s very little traditional “gameplay” here. No, Little Red Lie‘s difficulty comes through the ideas it explores and the way it explores them: it’s …
Adventure Game
“None of this is real. You’re not real. Rachel’s family isn’t real. This whole thing– It’s all just… theater.” “Well, you know what William Shakespeare said…” “Something about the whole world being a stage, so might as well act the fuck out of it?” “Nailed it.” “But I don’t want …
Strange, abstract trailers have a way of catching my attention. No, I’m not talking about that Death Stranding thing from The Game Awards, but the curious-looking 0°N 0°W from indie outfit Colorfiction. The title, pronounced “zero north, zero west”, is based on the coordinates of the fictitious Null Island. The game itself is described …
For me, one of the most remarkable things about Life is Strange was its ability to capture the beauty of small moments. For all its philosophical underpinnings and clever twists on the time travel premise, it was those little in between moments that really resonated with me. I’m not …
Since its release, Danganronpa V3 has been a controversial game for a bunch of reasons. A lot of fans are unhappy with the big twist ending. The localisation quality has come under fire. It’s a new direction for the Danganronpa series—at the very least, it’s a fresh start, with no …
From the brilliant mind of Miwashiba comes 1bitHeart, an a funny, heartfelt adventure game about making friends and coping with social anxiety. A few hundred years from now, in a time when everyone and everything is connected to a central network by “BitPhones”, a boy called Nanashi lives alone in …
When Square Enix announced Life is Strange: Before the Storm, I was skeptical for a whole bunch of reasons. Chief among them was the the question of how much the original game could gain from a prequel, compared to how much it stood to lose. Life is Strange left a …
In a world that’s still obsessed with the tired, harmful, and inaccurate trope of “crazed lunatics” in its horror stories, The Town of Light is a welcome breath of fresh air. This is ostensibly a horror game, and one set in a mental asylum no less, but there are no …
In the early 2000s, French developer Microids released Syberia and Syberia II to much acclaim. Long before the resurgence of adventure games that we’ve seen in the last 5-odd years, here was a pair of games that combined that old point-and-click cell with graphics that were state-of-the-art (for their time), …
There’s something weirdly anachronistic about The Silver Case. It’s a game that first came out in 1999, and it shows its age despite some graphical improvements for PS4 release, yet it also feels ahead of its time, even today. The first game from renowned game developer Goichi Suda, The Silver …