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Subversion is to game design as plot twists are to narrative, not necessary ingredients, but when done well they can completely transform a game into something that'll live on through player memory and conversation for years. Nectarmancer…

With so many platformers coming out every year, it's hard for one to stand out. Don Salmon manages to do that by fusing elements of both horizontal and vertical platformers with a beautiful lilac and green-led colour palette. Godot Engine,…

Toy Tactics is a tabletop twist on real-time tactics, complete with goofy physics, and pieces that wobbly rather than march. The biggest problem with a game genre having had its heyday a few decades back is that there's always a massive…

Co-op roguelite meets one of the Brothers Grimm's best-known stories in Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold. Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, or the verb-y ones, are out though. Instead Surprised Turtles' dwarves have names…

I don't know about you, but one thing that I definitely don't want to find myself having to do the next time I'm at the office is fighting my way out of a laboratory that's being overrun by an expanding, deadly lab-created viral horror born…

One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…

Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…