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This has been a long time coming. Originally coming out in 2011 on the Nintendo Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles was a revelatory role-playing game, combining elements of other genres, such as MMO-like combat and a western RPG-like focus on exploration, into a truly remarkable package. Nintendo has tried to bring the...
Ever wanted to be a Witch who had immense control over the elements surrounding them? Sounds amazing, right?! That is until you start setting things on fire, at which point the blaze spirals out of your control, all whilst you’re trying to remain undetected. Wildfire is a 2D stealth game...
Let me be clear: Maneater is a game I wouldn’t normally be keen on. Saturation (for better or worse) of games that simulate you playing as x animal or x concept for comedic effect is well established. Be it the great (Untitled Goose Game) or not so great (Surgeon Simulator),...
Monster Train is not the first game of it’s kind. I noted in my beta impressions article the deck-building rogue-like was definitely reminiscent to me of at least one other game in this genre, Slay the Spire. While the basic concept is something familiar, the more I play Monster Train...
Few games have staying power the way Minecraft does. What spawned a genre, and even became the world’s best selling game, surely had more creative ideas to follow. Follow it did, with other video game forays such as an episodic Telltale series of the IP and more recently a mobile...
Bigger is better. Go hard or go home. Mo money, mo problems. All these could be perfect taglines for Saints Row The Third Remastered. The third Saints game is finally being released on current generation consoles so players can either relive, or experience for the first time, this insane 2011...
Gather your gaming squad and launch into a new world of mining minerals, shooting bugs, and celebrating with a cold pint at the space bar. Deep Rock Galactic has launched out of Early Access and released in its complete form to both PC and Xbox One. The game is a...
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a visual novel peppered with turn-based tactical battles. It’s developed by EVC and published by Versus Evil.
It’s getting dark. You’re stumbling through the twilit woods, only vaguely conscious of your destination. At the edges of your mind you hear whisperings – fragments in an unknowable language – as a vile, mossy sludge drips across your vision. You wash your hands in a stream and exclaim at...
Fury Unleashed is a game I am bad at. I’m just terrible at it. I spent 3 hours getting repeatedly pummelled by the first boss. I had to switch to Easy Mode for the sake of this review. But here’s the thing: after I finished the game, I went back...
Living in a post Mario Maker world, it’s hard not to be excited by a new level designer game to sink my teeth into. Something about building your own and then playing other people’s levels is immensely satisfying, knowing that it was designed by someone just like you planning to...
25 years after its original release, a little game by the name of Trials of Mana has come out. It looks quite different from the 1995 Japanese version. Instead of the top-down, isometric view we now have a fully-fledged third-person remake, brought to life in a world of colour. The...
