At a glance, Moo Lander bears a striking—and intentional, I’d assume—resemblance to Ori and the Blind Forest. Beautiful hi-def 2D scenery with the use of natural colours, corrupted plant life that feels both organic and slightly alien, and level design built around flow and momentum create a similar atmosphere of …
Hyperdimension Neptunia and Senran Kagura seem like a natural fit for a crossover. They’re both series driven by irreverent senses of humour and fanservice, underpinned by much richer characterisation that you might expect from a quick glance. They approach from very different angles—Neptunia is an RPG series built on game …
Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the better things to come out of Borderlands. Turning the over-the-top, irreverent sense of humour of the main series into a gun-toting parody of Dungeons & Dragons is a lot of fun—arguably even more so than the original games. In that …
It’s easy to get caught in the spectacle of The Floating Castle. This comedy-drama retelling of the 1590 Siege of Oshi—in which a small force of some 3,000 soldiers, mostly peasants, held off repeated attacks by an army numbering more than 20,000—has no shortage of action, excitement, and comical banter. …
I really want to like Breathedge. It’s a game that, on paper, sounds like it should be a riot: a survival game set in space, with the unique challenges and opportunities that come with that, dressed up in irreverent humour and with more of a narrative push than your typical …
Astrologaster is one of the funniest games I’ve played in a long time. The real-life story of Simon Forman is bizarre and comical enough on its own, but when you tell it through a Blackadder-style historical sitcom complete with plenty of Shakespearean innuendo and earnest choral renditions of some truly …
Gaku Kuze’s Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, Volume 1 is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. The cynical perspective of a 30-something whose life didn’t turn out how they thought it would is already a topic rife with potential for black comedy, but run through …
The End of the F***ing World starts off by putting some facts down for us, from the two teenage protagonist’s perspective. James (Alex Lawther) is a psychopath, he’s sure of it. He’s stuck his hand in a fryer full of boiling oil just to feel something. He’s killed animals by …
