Mystery

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 …

After the success of Life is Strange and especially Life is Strange 2, Dontnod Entertainment has become the sort of developer where the studio name alone can be enough to get people’s attention. So Dontnod announced Twin Mirror, a psychological thriller surrounding a small-town murder, it caught folks eyes, mine …

PQube is partnering with developer Nippon Cultural Broadcasting Extend Inc to bring BUSTAFELLOWS to the west. The “urban noir” otome game is coming to Switch and Steam in 2021, following its Japanese release in 2019. In BUSTAFELLOWS, players take on the role of Teuta, a journalist with the unique ability …

Chinatown Detective Agency: Day One, a prologue demo for General Interactive Co’s cybernoir adventure game, is now available on Steam. Inspired by Carmen Sandiego, Chinatown Detective Agency casts you as Amira Darma, a former INTERPOL agent turned private investigator based in Singapore’s Chinatown district. Day One lets you try your …

Paradise Killer has one of the most unique, mesmerising world concepts I’ve encountered in a videogame. The whole game takes place in “Paradise”, an alternate reality created by the psychic energy of alien gods, overseen by a Syndicate of immortal beings, and with its very existence maintained by the prayers …

It’s always nice to play a game that transports you to someplace new and exciting. Plenty of games offer neatly-packaged, readily available escapism – usually in the form of a simple, fun distraction from the world. It’s far rarer that a game lets you escape to somewhere; to draw a …