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Yes, Your Grace — Royal Pixel Management
Yes, Your Grace mixes RPG and management elements with a colorful pixelated look. You are the king in his castle, lord of Davern, husband, and father to three daughters.
Citadel: Forged With Fire — hot under the collar
Touted as the next massive, open world, online role playing game, Citadel: Forged with Fire is a particularly exciting prospect for me. In particular because it comes from Blue Isle Studios — a crew that has both Valley and Slender to their…
Little Misfortune — Cheerful dark comedy that delights and disturbs
A polished and compelling story that leads you down a humorous and morbid path.
El Hijo — “Extremely Dangerous Carries a Slingshot!”
The stealth-puzzler revolves around a 6-year old boy on a quest to escape from a monastery and make his way through the desert to reunite with his mother. Mixing stealth traversal with environmental puzzles and a fixed isometric view, El…
112 Operator — What’s Your Emergency?
Fires. Car chases. Burglaries. Fights. Heart-attacks. Cats stuck in trees. It's 112 Operator, ready to test your management!
Have a wild time in the Planet Zoo beta
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying out the Planet Zoo beta – it’s time to gather our thoughts while we wait for the full release.
Flotsam — Whatever floats your town
In the city management genre we have the giant that is Cities: Skylines, and a few other interesting takes such as Frostpunk or Banished. But now Pajama Llama Games found a new way to make the genre work — the question is whether Flotsam…
Not for Broadcast is a promising dystopian news simulator
Amidst the acid washed jeans, side ponytails and shoulder pad trends of the 1980s, many gamers forget (or just weren’t even there yet) that full motion video games were actually a trend. Live action video narration in games eventually went…
Alchemy Story — An Uplifting Villager Experience
Playing a video game doesn’t always have to be about competition, skills and frustration. This is something I learnt with time, how to enjoy and seek relaxation to escape this frantic world. In fact, this is exactly what caught my attention…
Do Not Love: Violators Will Be Shot — I hated it
If you like sexualizing women on the basis of their youth or light skin, you’ll love the demo of Do Not Love: Violators Will Be Shot from Team Bisugo.
Rollie — NES platforming fun
A few months ago, I reviewed Nescape — a brand new NES game which was made in 2019! Who would have thought it. And now, I’m here to do it all again. This is Rollie, A classic style NES platformer, made by a single developer.
Zombie Rollerz is a pinball, wave-defence RPG and is as fun as it sounds
Genre splicing is so commonplace these days that there's hardly a fanfare played out when some new mode or sub-genre sidesteps into another. Despite all of this, one mechanic which continues to not be fused up into other game types is that…
CROSSNIQ+ — Cross my heart
Now, like from an early 2000s time capsule arrives CROSSNIQ+ — a love letter to all things Y2K and Dreamcast.
Pandemic Express — A Refreshing Experience
With the current rise in multiplayer titles that ask you to be the last one standing, it is refreshing that there are some that encourage you to work together. This is the setup for Pandemic Express, a multiplayer focuses title from…
They Are Billions — Zombies… Thousands of ’em
I don’t need to wax lyrical (again) about how much I love console based real time strategy (RTS) games, so it will be no surprise to our regular readers to learn that I had to get my hands on They Are Billions as soon as I had the chance.…
Walking a fuzzy grey line in Dry Drowning
Dive into a dystopian future with Dry Drowning, where politics and personal grudges conspire to get in the way of your job as a private detective.
Hunt: Showdown — Monster Mash
Even though it is currently still in the Microsoft Game Preview program, we’ve been playing Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown intensely for the last few days and let me tell you, it might be the most promising online shooter of the past three or four…
The sneaky, stabby goblins of Tenderfoot Tactics
Like a game of DnD gone terribly right, Tenderfoot Tactics has more goblins in it than you can wave an outlandishly large stick at. And not just your sneaky typical goblins; archers, warriors, wizards and more lie within.
Signs of the Sojourner — Symbolic Connections
Since the birth of languages, humans have been using symbols representative of the various meanings around them. From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, to Chinese logograms to more modern innovations like Klingon, language is, and always will…
Sailor Cats — Fishing up supplies, but not fish
Adorable mobile games are now being advertised to me as I thumb through the iOS store pages. I’m a real sucker for something cute, even if it’s just an idle game, and I normally I end up downloading said cute games and playing around with…