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Blood West
Blood West is a particularly tough-as-nails cowboy-themed take on the stealth-focused immersive sim genre, a type of game centred around sneaking through labyrinthine environments and taking anything that isn’t nailed down. This style of game was made famous by the Thief and Dishonored franchises, amongst others. I can certainly appreciate...
Super Crazy Rhythm Castle, the brainchild of Second Impact Games and published by Konami, is a burst of rhythmic joy on the Nintendo Switch. This co-op game, brimming with eccentricity and vibrancy, puts Konami back in the spotlight as a purveyor of one-of-a-kind games.
When robots want to leave a dying planet, they must use the power of capitalism to dig up ancient artifacts. These artifacts are long-lost rocket parts that must be excavated from the ground, with the whole endeavour funded by robot work. Despite the survival of robot-kind hinging on building that...
Last Train Home is a historically adapted game that takes place over 100 years ago in the wake of World War 1. While the great war is over, the fight still continues with civil war breaking out as a legion of Czechoslovak soldiers struggle home on a train. It’s also...
A retro-inspired, quirky absurdist RPG from Melbourne-based developer Andy Brophy, Knuckle Sandwich is a little bit turn-based, a little bit bullet-hell, and a lot of weird and wacky fun. We’ve been spoiled this year with excellent role-playing games, including the recent Earthbound-like In Stars and Time, but Knuckle Sandwich feels...
Worldless unfolds in a realm where the rules of existence are still undefined. In this mysterious setting, players start on a journey through a shapeless world consisting of two realms. One realm is populated by entities shaping their development and understanding, while the other signifies the aspirational destination they seek....
In Stars and Time is a vibrant and charming indie game that has followed the somewhat recent trend of time-loop shenanigans. The world and many of its characters are frozen in time, brought upon by spellcraft from the evil King who rules all. However, our hero Sifrin (Frin for short) is...
Dress-up games are a genre that goes wildly unappreciated, these days mostly being relegated to Picrews or as a small element in much bigger games. I have often jokingly called huge RPGs that include armor customisation of any sort ‘dress-up games’ because I need to find somewhere to get my...
The Last Faith is a gloomy gothic 2D Metroidvania action game developed by Kumi Souls Games and drawing strong influence from the old 2D Castlevania titles along with a hearty helping of Bloodborne for good measure. The game boasts some solid art and decent combat and is overall not a...
KarmaZoo is a cooperative platform game developed by Pastagames and published by Devolver Digital. In it, you play as a little blob trapped in the KarmaZoo, an ethereal place between life and death. To escape the KarmaZoo, you’ll have to collect enough karma to be able to set yourself free.
Back in 1996, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was released on SNES to audiences in Japan and the US. A strange game, it came into existence out of Shigeru Miyamoto’s dream to make an RPG using everybody’s favourite plumber, along with RPG master developer Square’s hopes to...
Rhythm games, dungeon crawlers, a 1v1 fighting game and even a Musou; it seems like at this point the Persona series has done it all. Surprisingly absent — though entirely fitting — from that spin-off repertoire has been a tactics game, but no longer. Persona 5 Tactica is here and celebrates...
