Let’s get the obvious out of the way: yep the only reason I played Animal Well was because Dunkey is backing it. Whilst I don’t fully align with him in…
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David Klemke
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The last decade+ I’ve been doing these reviews for has allowed me to watch many developers hone their craft over the years. Most of them get better with age, refining…
David Klemke
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I’ve long since abandoned looking through Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms for games that I want to fund. Part of it is burnout on the whole concept, with many of…
David Klemke
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Growing up in the bush meant us kids had to find…less traditional ways of keeping ourselves entertained than our friends living out in the big smoke. Some of these are…
David Klemke
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This review almost didn’t get written. You see I’ve been on the wrong side of history numerous times with games that are almost universally loved. The first of these was…
David Klemke
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The state of one’s wishlist on Steam is a reflection of both their aspirational desires and realities their gamer self. For those whose wishlist is too long suffer from the…
David Klemke
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Before I start playing a Bethesda game there’s always this sense of dread, of intimidation. These games are huge beasts, meant to be played for months upon months with the…
David Klemke
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The sophomore instalment in a successful franchise is always a risky one: simply repeating what you did before but more usually earns the ire of the general public, but not…
David Klemke
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In college my teacher for the course of “Literature on the Internet” (which was still a weird thing back in 2001) asked us to perform a simple task: find her…
David Klemke
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The Witness stands out for many reasons but chief among them, for me at least, was the idea that a meticulously crafted game could still fail at its prime directive:…