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Boomerang X
We’ve all played games that have one or two elements that are strong enough to carry the entire experience and possibly make us forget about the missing stuff. Sometimes it’s graphics, or memorable characters, hair-raising atmosphere, or precisely tuned combat. In the case of Boomerang X, an arena/wave-based shooter from...
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights has been described as a “Soulslike” game, a Metroidvania game, and an action platformer heavy on atmosphere and light on complex combat. Those things are all sort of true, but they fail to capture the essence of what makes Ender Lilies memorable. Coupled with...
I know, I know, they’re bad guys, and maybe it’s just the fact that the game never makes the missions particularly personal, but every time I watch my high-velocity round make its slow-motion journey towards the cranium of my target, I can’t help but feel a little bad. Some poor,...
Wildermyth
Wildermyth is a unique game that doesn’t feel unfamiliar, especially if you’ve played tabletop RPGs before. Like in Dungeons and Dragons, you create a party of adventurers and see them grow from local village nobodies to legendary heroes. The aesthetics and gameplay call back to the tabletop origins too, with...
Legend of Mana
For the most part, the Mana series is fairly straightforward. You master various weapons, recover the power of Mana in its myriad forms, and save the day. Legend of Mana is slightly different. So much so, in fact, that I’m not sure where to start. The graphics are beautiful, the...
Wasteland 3 is back with its first DLC: The Battle of Steeltown. Centered around a factory city responsible for creating most of Colorado’s weapons and tech, your team is sent to investigate when the goods stop coming. Thrust into a dispute between the overworked employees and the stressed managers trying...
When it was released six years ago, Techland’s Dying Light went out of its way to add some new gameplay elements and mechanics to an already very crowded zombie survival genre. Taking place in the fictional Middle Eastern metropolis of Harran, the first-person game was the story of undercover spy...
Wreckfest
I suspect that at some point while playing Forza or Gran Turismo or one of those other snooty racing sims with their car-porn focus on slippery reflective metal and engineered curves, you’ve had the urge to turn the race into a cacophony of screaming tires twisted metal. You know, to...
Due to an incredible lineage of games, Arc System Works is renowned for being one the greatest developers in the fighting genre. Recently gaining mainstream success with Dragon Ball FighterZ and BlazBlue, the company has decided to revisit a fan favorite: Guilty Gear. Although it has a strong cult following,...
The world holds its breath for the next real chapter in the Final Fantasy VII Remake saga. After the first game shook things up a bit story-wise, the wait seemed both eternal and unbearable. While Intergrade doesn’t really answer any of those burning questions, it is a brief, beautiful distraction...
It’s a comic book! It’s a TV show! No, it’s a video game based on a TV show based on comic book characters! DC Super Hero Girls is a television show surrounding the lives of DC’s most and somewhat beloved heroines and villains, reimagined as teenage students. The Nintendo Switch...
There are a lot of retro indie games on the market, but most aim for the brightly colored sprites and expansive worlds made famous by titles like Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. Astalon: Tears of the Earth is drawing on the aesthetic and mechanics of an earlier time. This...
