Five years ago, Mimimi Games breathed welcome new life into the tactical stealth genre with the excellent Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Following in the footsteps of games like Commandos and Desperados, it reminded the world how captivating a finely-tuned blend of squad-based tactics and stealth can be, especially …
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 …
The Kids We Were was a hard game for me to get through. Not because of any tricky puzzles or skill demands—it’s a “walking sim”, at heart—but because of something far more challenging: its raw, unflinching honesty. It’s a game that deals with some heavy themes, handled with care but …
Space Moth DX was already an accomplished CAVE-style shoot-’em-up that put a unique risk/reward twist on the familiar dichotomy of the rapid-fire spread shot and a high-power, focused laser. With a remixed scoring system and new mechanics, Space Moth: Lunar Edition —1CC Games’ answer to CAVE’s Black Labels—takes those same …
As a throwback to the shmups of the early 90s, there’s a certain appeal in Crisis Wing. Its colourful yet moody pixel art and looming, detailed enemy ships call to mind Toaplan classics like Truxton, and it’s got the challenge to match. But it’s also a game that feels a …
Get ready for a relaxed, playful golf adventure that’s “all about the journey, not the driver”, with A Little Golf Journey set to land on Nintendo Switch and PC on October 14. A Little Golf Journey combines diorama courses, puzzles, simple controls, and a story about bringing colour back to …
The premise behind Staxel is simple, but compelling: what if you mixed the farm life sim of Story of Seasons or Stardew Valley with Minecraft’s block-building creativity? It seems like a natural fit: disparate as the genres are in a lot of ways, they have similar rhythms to their relaxing …
It feels like it’s been a long time coming, but we finally have a release date for The Good Life, and it’s less than a month away: Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro and White Owls’ “debt repayment RPG” launches October 15. Swery announced the release date for The Good Life during this …
Team Good Knight and Doublethink Games’ Good Knight is out now on Steam Early Access, dishing up a “butt-clenching” heavy metal bullet hell steeped in Filipino mythology. Drawing inspiration from everything from Dante’s Inferno and Greek classics to Super Hexagon, Castlevania, and rhythm and puzzle games, Good Knight is a …
If you want some ’90s-style pixel-art horror this Halloween, you might want to keep an eye on Scarred Stars: Traumatic Edition. Created by indie developer Tuomo Laine with inspiration taken from the likes of Clock Tower, this psychological horror launches October 22 for PC. Taking place in an abandoned theme …
