What can a game developer sacrifice in a game in order to amplify what remains? Some choose to cast aside mechanics, either simplifying or completely doing away with them, something…
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The gaming public often looks to the indie scene for the new innovations; those experimental features that $_BIG_PUBLISHER would deem too risky for inclusion in a blockbuster title. There are…
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…
Annapurna has cemented themselves as a publisher of games with a strong narrative focus, often putting forward titles that make the definition of “game” all the more blurry. Their track…
I’ve never really found myself attracted to deck builder style games which seems antithetical to my real life history with TCGs. I still remember getting my first deck of Magic…
In the continuing vein of “I can’t believe I missed this” style of posts I’ve been writing lately Trine 5 stands out as one that really shouldn’t be in the…
Well, I lied. I thought that my new Switch, all covered in its glorious Zelda branding, would meet the same fate as its predecessor. This was the price of admission…
There’s a few things a game can do to win me over really quickly and one of those things is fully animated sections, bonus points if that extends to the…
You know how I just talking about developers I hadn’t kept tabs on? Well looks like it’s happened yet again as whilst having a look at how long it’d been…
There’s only a handful of developers I get excited about these days. I mean sure, the big AAA titles from the usual suspects still manage to grab my attention, but…