Review by Matt S. We here at DDNet really like cultural games, and what we have here is possibly the most memorable one you’ll play all year. Detention is a game developed by Taiwanese indie team Red Candle, set in the country’s turbulent history in the mid-20th century and weaving…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. With Resident Evil 7: Biohazard taking the Resident Evil franchise into a bold and controversial new direction, it was a curious decision for Capcom to re-release Resident Evil: Revelations onto current-gen consoles. After all, it’s a port of a port of a 5-year old Nintendo 3DS…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m speaking very broadly here, but in the world of videogames, the horror genre has really lost its way. The core principles about what makes a horror text great – that it disempowers and displaces, that it unsettles and disturbs, was once a part of horror…
Read MoreWe’re all about the retro this week on the DDNet podcast, as we chat about our favourite JRPGs, horror games, and platformers from yesteryear. Which Final Fantasy is the best, are there any good modern platformers that compare to the classic Mario games from yesteryear, and why has modern horror…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. At the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world. In the margins of the community, at the gates of cities, there stretched wastelands which sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable. – Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. White Day is a cult classic in every sense of the word. Released first way back in 2001, it’s a game that’s still getting discovered to this day, with a mobile port from a couple of years ago. Now that it’s getting a release on modern…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls was a very different game to the two original visual novels that so won fans over on the PlayStation Vita. Those games were interactive mystery novels that mixed humor, serious themes, and a touch of fanservice together to create two narratives that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Perception is a game that I am thoroughly convinced is very genuine in what it wants to achieve, but unfortunately the developer team lacked the ability to execute to that ambition. It’s the game that everyone knows as “the horror game about the blind girl,” and…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. As I sit down to review The Town of Light, a wave of extreme pressure is washing over me. Not only are the topics tackled in this walking simulator extremely heavy, the events are based on documented cases at a real European asylum (Volterra) early in…
Read MoreReview by Lachlan W. H. P. Lovecraft. The titan of written horror. The father of an entire subgenre of horror. The creator of a beloved fictional universe. Regardless of his meanderingly overwrought prose and his often very objectionable personal views (to call him “racist” would be putting it mildly), Lovecraft…
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