I appreciate where Memories of East Coast is coming from. I’ll always admire the DIY spirit it takes to just get stuck in as a solo developer, and I welcome, on principle, any effort to earnestly explore questions of guilt and grief. But actually delivering is another challenge entirely, and …
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We’ve got two download codes for Black Bird on Nintendo Switch to give away! Last week, I published my review of Onion Games’ Black Bird, finding it to be “one of the most enthralling shoot ’em ups I’ve played in a long time.” That’s in part due to solid shoot ’em up gameplay …
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, …
Blade Strangers is a suitable name: bringing together characters from Code of Princess, Umihara Kawase, Shovel Knight, Cave Story, Azure Striker Gunvolt, and The Binding of Isaac, it’s one of the strangest crossover fighting games we’ve seen in a while. Don’t think that’s just some gimmick, though—Blade Strangers is also …
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 …
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 …
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles was one of real highlights of last year. It’s a quiet, relaxing, peaceful adventure through a world more interested in community and sustainability than violence and conquest. It’s an open-world game where that structure underscores the ideas that the narrative sets out to explore, rather …
