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Neva
Creators of the visually arresting and incredibly touching GRIS, the talented crew at Nomada Studio are back with their next adventure, exploring themes of love, identity, growth, trust and courage. This time, the focus is on a young woman named Alba, who is travelling through a decaying world with her...
Take to the skies in Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, a new RPG by Octeto Studios. Taking a substantial amount of inspiration from the cult classic Dreamcast RPG Skies of Arcadia, the game certainly has its charms. Unfortunately, the experience is also weighed down by a significant number of technical...
Western audiences may be less aware, but Nihon Falcom is quietly one of the biggest and hardest-working RPG genre smiths games have ever seen. Their most popular series include the beloved Legend of Heroes and Trails, two pairs of long-running turn-based adventures that provide epic political fantasy stories with what feels like hundreds...
Europa
Stunning vistas, free-form flight, and a touching story await in Europa, a short adventure with some of the most beautiful art you’ll see in gaming.
According to Sheffield-based developers Steel City Interactive, Undisputed is the first major boxing video game released in over a decade. At first thought, this felt like a dubious claim, but a quick Google search later and it turns out they are right. My, how time flies since the days of...
When the creators of some of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years in Persona announced they were creating a brand new IP in Metaphor: ReFantazio, you better believe many eyes were on them. After a long wait, the brand new fantasy venture is here.
Have you ever wanted to jump into the Dragon Ball franchise but didn’t know where to start? Or maybe you’re a diehard fan who wants to create their ideal battle scenarios? Even if you are somewhere between those extremes, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero will be great for you. There’s enough...
Shattered Space has now been released as the first, and so far only, expansion for Bethesda Game Studio’s spacefaring RPG Starfield, which released about a year ago. Letting the player explore the homeworld of the secretive House Va’ruun faction and introducing a few new enemy types to face, the expansion...
Phoenix Springs is a point-and-click adventure game, set in a mysterious neo-noir world that feels like it could be a near future. It’s the debut game from Calligram Studio, a team of three people between the UK and France. They call themselves an art collective rather than a development studio,...
Without question, Silent Hill 2 is one of the most iconic and notable psychological horror games of all time. In 2001, it revolutionised the way horror games were made; while others were hitting high notes with jump scares and zombies, Silent Hill 2 brought an overwhelming sense of dread. There’s...
EA Sports FC 25 is the latest annual entry for the series formerly known as FIFA. Despite the loss of the FIFA license a few years ago, the series is still going strong featuring a plethora of gameplay options and content. It features teams and leagues from all over the...
Bloomtown: A Different Story is an astonishingly charming little RPG developed by Lazy Bear Games and Different Sense Games. Taking no small amount of clear inspiration from ATLUS’ Persona games, with some Stardew Valley and Earthbound influence thrown in there for good measure, Bloomtown nonetheless is a lot more than...
