Aussie readers of DDNet, have we got a treat for you! (Note: this competition is only open to Australian residents. Apologies, overseas friends, but I’m sure we’ll have another contest for you soon) Stranger Of Paradise is one of the finest, and smartest, games in Square Enix’s storied series. As we wrote in our 4.5/5 review: Do you know that…
Opinion by Matt C Content warning: this article includes some graphic World War II photos.“This is married to a generous aim assist and assorted impact effects that, simply put, make shooting things wonderful.” [Emphasis mine] That’s an actual quote from an actual review of Activision’s Call of Duty: World War…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. I’ve been playing around a little bit with Visual Novel Maker, the upcoming “Maker” software from the same publishers as the RPG Maker series. I’m not going to run a full review on it just yet (it releases on the 16th of the month), but I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When Hand of Fate first released back in 2015, it was something genuinely new that people hadn’t seen before, and that made it a hugely impressive effort for a small Australian game developer. Now the team is back with a sequel, and the fact that it’s…
Read MoreInterview by Ginny W. Australia’s game development landscape is brimming with indie developers, and even in such a big pool, almost no two ideas are the same. Fiend Legion is a great example of a title that pleasantly subverts expectations even whilst looking familiar; we may have seen CCGs and…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Stifled is a horror game built around a very interesting premise: you can generally only “see” things through echolocation. In order to make any sort of progress, you need to make noise so you can see where you’re going, but noise also attracts monsters to your…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that the Etrian Odyssey franchise has been a major cause for the revitalisation of the Japanese dungeon crawler genre in the west. It was once a substantial genre in its own right, but time had been unkind to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Chess, along with Go, must surely be two of the most venerated games in the history of humankind. There aren’t many other games out there that still have competitive scenes 1,300 odd years after being invented. League of Legends certainly won’t. The reason for these games…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So, there’s a new NieR in development, according to the producer at PlatinumGames, Yosuke Saito. Given that NieR: Automata is the game I called “the greatest game of all time” back when I wrote my longest review about a game, ever (and, yes, I still stand…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. When she ran away from home, Regina just wanted a chance to prove her independence—to her overbearing father, to her strict older brother, and, most of all, to herself. She gets more than she bargained for, though, when she finds herself mysteriously transported to a strange…
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