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Urban Strife could be the best turn-based, squad-based strategy game for years
Society has broken apart into gangs and pockets of survivors. Urban Strife starts you off freshly rescued from a near-fatal crash and challenges you to save an ailing, failing community of elderly survivors from the wandering undead and the…
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…
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.…
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…
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.