Iwate Mountain Dance, a boss rush bullet hell platformer from the people behind RAIN Project, is now available on Steam. Iwate Mountain Dance pits players against 15 multi-stage bosses, each with their own attacks for players to figure out to deal with and unique twists on the game’s mechanics. In …
Update: This article originally stated that Shantae and the Seven Sirens was a timed exclusive on Apple Arcade, which is not correct. This has been corrected. Exciting news for fans of WayForward’s hair-whipping half-genie hero: Shantae and the Seven Sirens is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and …
In a very welcome surprise release, Exit the Gungeon—a sequel to Dodge Roll’s acclaimed Enter the Gungeon—is now available for Nintendo Switch and PC (via Steam). Publisher Devolver Digital describes Exit the Gungeon as a “bullet hell dungeon climber”. Where Enter the Gungeon was a top-down dungeon crawler that saw …
A new gameplay trailer for Lost Words: Beyond the Page, unveiled this week at the New York Videogame Awards, shows off a game that looks utterly mesmerising. Lost Words: Beyond the Page tells the story of Izzy, a young writer. Players will explore Izzy’s notebook and the fantasy world of …
Indivisible feels like it is a game made personally for me. Three of my favourite game genres are RPGs, fighting games, and Metroidvanias; Indivisible is a Metroidvania RPG with a combat system and character designs that draw a lot of inspiration from fighting games. (Coming from the developers behind Skullgirls, …
EMMA: Lost in Memories, a new 2D platformer from Barcelona-based indie studio SandBloom Studio, looks set to embark on a thoughtful exploration of memory loss when it launches later this month. Judging from the trailer, that theme is built right into the game’s defining mechanic: each platform starts to fade …
2015’s Super Mario Maker was a stroke of genius for Nintendo. Everyone who’s ever played a Mario game has probably dreamed of making their own levels, and here was a game that made that possible. The creation interface was intuitive, but still offered enough depth for imaginative creators to come …
“Unable to fathom everything there was, humanity began to name everything they feared; they mastered the sky, the earth and the entire world. Still in fear, they tied up what nobody else was able to see, they put it in order and they enclosed it inside a concept, regardless of …
Every year, we see dozens, if not hundreds, of new platformers pop up on every game platform around. Some of those tinker around the edges of the familiar platform structure; some using that familiarity as a jumping-off point to push boundaries of the types of stories games can tell. Most …
Yoshi’s Crafted World is delightful. The Yoshi games have long been the more whimsical counterpart to Mario Bros.’ antics, and Crafted World takes that idea to its zenith with a world that looks like one very ambitious arts and crafts project: folded paper and repurposed rubbish are the stars here, …
