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Helheim Hassle
Helheim Hassle is a phenomenal adventure game and a creative puzzle platformer. The 10-hour main story is worth an additional playthrough just to see what the writers came up with when you try to skip dialog. Fans of the genre should jump on this, and I’ll be eagerly awaiting more....
Carrion
Carrion gave me a fantastic power fantasy that I didn’t know I wanted. It makes great use of the Metroidvania archetype and fits its reverse horror movie plot into the most enjoyable six hours I’ve ever had the guilty pleasure of experiencing. The game is available now for $19.99 on...
Gears Tactics
Gears Tactics is one of the best translations of one genre to another I’ve ever played. The benefit of having many other games to use as inspiration and the backing of first-party production value give it a degree of polish you don’t see often in a turn-based tactics game. It’s...
Cloudpunk
Cloudpunk makes the gorgeous neo-future city of Nivalis the star of its story and uses a myriad of quirky NPCs to make it feel like a real place. A few of the gameplay mechanics fall short of engaging, but fans of the cyberpunk genre should enjoy the experience. The game...
A Fold Apart
A Fold Apart is roughly three hours in length, which, although short, is highly polished and tells the story that it wants to tell in a way that is truthful and fun. In a time when many of us know how it feels to be separated from our loved ones,...
Iron Danger
Iron Danger delivers on its promise to combine real-time and turn-based gameplay to create a time-bending mechanic that opens up new possibilities for the genre. Unfortunately, an engaging narrative does not accompany the polished combat. Nonetheless, players are still offered a strong gameplay experience that is easy to understand but...
Bleeding Edge
The game has the depth of gameplay and the quality of characters to hang with other popular team-based competitive titles; it just currently lacks the breadth of content those games have had years to build. But with a recently added map and additional character already on the way, the future...
Exit the Gungeon
The game does translate the hair-trigger chaos of bullet hell to a 2D sidescroller, but it’s not a perfect landing. While the highly skilled will get the most out of the mechanics, a bit too much is stacked against you and left to chance, making it less fun to attempt...
The Invisible Hand
For Escape to the Movies, film critic Bob Chipman reviews The Invisible Man, an uneven but ambitious and effect modern horror movie update.
Beautiful Desolation
Ultimately, I can’t understate how fascinating and engaging the characters and the world they exist in are. If you have the patience to put up with some clunky game design and busywork, Beautiful Desolation is absolutely worth playing. This game is available now for $19.99 on GOG and Steam.
The game is a simple yet quality strategy experience. It tones down a lot of the more unforgiving mechanics the genre is known for yet maintains a satisfying level of challenge. The game is available now on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch for $19.99.
Arise: A Simple Story
Arise: A Simple Story is a story-driven, atmospheric 3D platformer by Piccolo Studio. You play as a man who recently died, traversing environments that symbolize meaningful moments in his life. For example, sometimes you’re as small as a bug, jumping across lily pads and hitching rides on bees. Statues in...