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Tower of Time
I don’t have any experience with traditional CRPGs. To that end, I was pretty sure this game was gonna be a murderous slog, one that I would have to endure rather than enjoy. Turns out I was only half-right. Tower of Time is still a savage journey, but it’s one...
Dead In Vinland is a sequel of sorts to the management/survival/RPG Dead in Bermuda. I never played the original, but now I am desperate to go back. That’s because, short of a few easily patched-in features, Dead in Vinland is close to being an indie PC masterpiece. More than that,...
At the beginning of the game, we are introduced to Amalie and Milm, two sisters who have lost their parents to a witch. Milm comes home with a cut on her forehead, a mark that the villagers recognized as the Witch Disease, a horrible and mysterious disease that turns humans...
Masters of Anima is an adventure game from French indie developer Passtech Games that offers a fun little experience with a creative combat system, where strategy is the most vital characteristic. We are welcomed to the world of Spark, where a naturally occurring magical energy called Anima can be harnessed...
We’re back in high school, and the world is in shambles. World peace has been achieved through the power and accessibility of self-help books, and then lost again to corruption and evil. Students and faculty are disappearing from the dreary halls of Water Falls High School and textbooks have turned...
Extinction
Fighting enormous enemies in games has been a time-honored tradition for the whole span of the medium. There’s just something so satisfying about taking down someone who’s several times bigger than you. It makes you feel like a god, like an actual hero. Extinction looks to capture that same feeling...
The Urban Trial franchise makes its console debut on the Nintendo Switch with Urban Trial Playground. Urban Trial Playground is a 2.5D, side-scrolling stunt racer game, much like Ubisoft’s beloved Trials franchise. This iteration, the third in the Urban Trial franchise, moves the action to the neighborhoods of beautiful California. There’s...
Minit
Minit’s conceit is so simple and so straightforward, I thought I’d tire of it immediately. But I was dead wrong. What starts a little slow (and a bit frustrating) quickly turns into a fast-paced and rewarding experience that borrows as much from Super Meat Boy’s unrelenting speed as it does...
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings is the final installment of the “Mysterious” series, also making it the 19th edition of the Atelier series. Published by Koei Tecmo and developed by Gust, the Atelier series heavily focuses on the use of Alchemy. With that and the...
Clustertruck
With the Nintendo’s AAA library in a slump, and it’s indie game market in a boom period, I’m certain there are many Switch owners out there thumbing through the eShop catalog. For those people, I offer a warning: If like me, you’re the type of gamer who gets stuck in...
A mustached detective, a train named the Orient Express, and a cast of colorful suspects – if you said the recent Murder on the Orient Express movie or an Agatha Christie whodunit that would be understandable. It certainly seems what THQ Nordic thought they were doing so with their old...
Surviving Mars
When the Earth fills up with people and discarded iPhones, what will we be forced to do? We’ll head to space: the final frontier. Specifically, Mars seems like a good bet. There’s a lot of nice, red ground, and presumably, resources kicking around there – how tough could it be...
