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Dream Cycle — A Dive into Magic & Dreams
In Dream Cycle, step into the shoes of Morgan, an arcane apprentice who is caught up in her uncle's schemes within the Dreamlands.
Second Opinion: Why The Forgotten City is the best game of 2021
What will you do with yourself today? This is a question asked mainly by parents when intending to load their teenage children with tasks around the house, or by a spouse who senses that their partner looks dangerously close to having a lie…
Demon Turf — Jump, Claim, Repeat
The main draw for me with Demon Turf is its obvious blend of 3D platformer with 2D visuals. Beebz is the main protagonist who set out to conquer different turf in order to become queen demon — but, there’s plenty for fans of the platforming…
Blooming Business: Casino sees you managing a cute animal casino!
What better to attract to your business establishment than cute and adorable little animals as staff? In Blooming Business: Casino, you are creating an attractive and fun casino for a bunch of animal friends, looking to spend their hard…
Sprocket — The Sandbox Tank Simulator
The popularity of MMO-wargames such as World of Tanks and War Thunder has raised interest in military history since the 2010s. Both games still enjoy substantial popularity, but their niche is still very much underserved even now. This is…
World Box is a high fantasy, chaos simulator sandbox
Want to drop nukes on elves, or level a volcano with a meteorite? World Box has you covered. Titled on Steam as a God Simulator, World Box exists in an interesting space. You can play an active role in your planet's human life, tweaking…
Balance training and spinning to bring glory to Flaustria in surreal strategy title Astronaut: The…
Lead the Flaustrian Space Race, carefully monitoring and managing your astronaut's stats, appeasing the five high priests, spinning the wheels of propaganda in your favour and all while trying to meet deadlines. Astronaut: The Best is a…
How Hollow Knight’s difficulty tells a story
Difficulty is a constant source of contention in gaming. Some want easier access to the content of a game, others want an exhilarating challenge. However, the structure of many games and their narratives suggest that the experience cannot…
Revisiting Broken Lines, a squad-based tactics game
In “We-go” tactics games, turns are removed altogether and the player and enemies move simultaneously. Broken Lines is the most recent iteration of this style and a darn good implementation of it too. Instead of turns, the gameplay in…
Incarnation is a roguelite where your character becomes progressively weaker
When you hurt yourself the pain lingers, you age, things freeze up, bits don't work like they used to; things start falling off or falling out. Who'd want to be mortal? Well, at least one angel has a serious case of FOMO, and Incarnation is…
Engagement, ADHD, and Gaming
Video games are an interactive audio-visual medium that can conveys stories or experiences in a way few other forms of media can. The methods used by games to convey themselves are as varied as the genres they cover. This diversity allows…
The 10 Best Mobile Territory Conquest Games
When it comes to the mobile gaming field, there are so many different types of strategy games out there. There are massive 4x strategy games, real time tactics based games, turn based games, and then there are territory conquest games.…
Top 5 Eco-Friendly Board Games – Protect Echo the Dolphin!
Board games are not great for the environment. No matter how much you share, trade, and buy second hand, the market is saturated with huge amounts of processed plastics.
Song of Farca is a near-future narrative hacking game full of character
At the moment humanity is at an industrial peak; for better or worse, technology is racing forward faster than it can be regulated, and humanity is still, in many ways, dealing with issues from generations ago. In Song of Farca you take on…
Operation: Tango is A Wild Spy Co-op
Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical spy co-op that pits you and a friend against a looming international terror.
We took a look at The Emperor’s Own’s teaser
Prepare for things to get spooky in The Emperor's Own, a story-driven adventure game set in an alternate-19th-century Russian Empire.
Warhammer 40k: Battlesector is a bit of a (Dread)snore
I've been lucky enough to play a few Warhammer games in recent years and the use of the IP often seems quite hit or miss. Some games like Total War: Warhammer are stellar uses for this IP, whilst others like Necromunda are underwhelming, to…
Quantum League makes you your own best teammate
Quantum League is an FPS where timing matters more than your aim. This arena shooter gives players a chance to work with their past and future selves in order to take down opponents and score big.
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition — I didn’t even learn math.
To be completely honest, I have never played Frog Fractions before, because why would I have? I hate fractions. I am not a big fan of frogs, why would I want to play a math game. As it turns out, Frog Fractions has some bad branding, as you…
Pill Baby Hands On — Exploring a new town
As a part of my IGF judging, I got to take on an early demo of Pill Baby — a story-based action game about an immigrant who has just moved cities to take on a new, and somewhat average job. As a new person to this world, you seem to not…