This latest review comes to you via the “game developers I hadn’t heard from in a while but should’ve been tracking” series. As long time readers will know there’s a…
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Cast your mind back to high school English classes, the ones where they decided try to introduce Shakespeare to a severely disinterested bunch of teenagers (I count myself among them…
The rise of the cosy game genre has been a fascinating one to watch. With the explosion in popularity of soulsborne style games many have sought to replicate that punishing…
Expectations are a burden. Try as I might to keep myself aside from envisioning what a game might be like before I buy it I can’t seem but help to…
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…
There was a time once, long ago, where the time a game spent in development was a good indicator of the level of polish you could expect from it. Blizzard’s…
There are many a good game I’ve played in my time, so many in fact that I’ve often forgot the ones that really meant a great deal to me when…
Before Annapurna started branding itself as the publisher for the weird and wonderful world of experimental indie titles they really had a hard time breaking through to mainstream. To be…
The speed at which games can now spawn new genres and imitators is surprising, even to this long time gamer who’s seen dozens of trends come and go. The latest…
It’s always fun to think about the genesis of the story and mechanics of a game. Quite often they’re rooted in reality in some way; the stories typically being allegories…