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 …
There’s no shortage of metroidvanias these days. Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on your perspective: I know plenty of people who get exasperated at the sheer volume of them, but I still get a flutter of excitement whenever I see the telltale Metroid-style map in a screenshot …
Godstrike lands on Switch and PC on April 15, letting players take on celestial beasts in a bullet-hell twin-stick shooter where “time is your greatest asset and most dreaded enemy”. Godstrike takes place in a chaotic world where the divided remnants of an old divine power wage constant war through …
The console version of Bladed Fury has a release date: NExT Studios’ “classic Chinese fantasy 2D action game” launches on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 25. Bladed Fury draws on Chinese history, mythology, and traditional art to create what looks to be a unique, exciting action …
Room to Grow is the sort of puzzle game that will, almost at the same time, make you feel both incredibly stupid and like some sort of genius. Building of a deceptively simple concept, it doesn’t take long at all to reach the point where each new puzzle seems genuinely …
Need a fresh dose of turn-based tactics? Shores Unknown, a tactical RPG in a viking-inspired setting and taking influence from both Western and Japanese RPG classics is now available on Steam Early Access. Taking place in a world ruled by the iron fist of the Crown and plagued by perpetual …
There’s a lot going on in Project Starship X. Even by shoot-’em-up standards, it’s a game of sensory overload, full of bright colours and flashing lights, overwhelming attack patterns, and eccentric character designs. In contrast to the precision and mastery that a finely-crafted bullet hell demands, this is a game …
You know those light reflection puzzles that often crop up in action adventure games, where you have to move and rotate mirrors in order to reflect a beam of light? Solas 128 takes that concept and expands it out to a whole game, with a dose of colour theory, interlocking …
If you like puzzle games, cute cartoon art styles, and/or cacti, you’re going to want to keep an eye out for Room to Grow when it lands on Steam later this month. Developed by Mischka Kamener with support from Film Victoria, Room to Grow revolves around a simple concept: on …
