Video by Matt S. Devolver Digital’s latest creative indie thing is Carrion, and it’s quite the viscerally stylish little game, with some intense violence and excellent level design. One thing that is also interesting about the game is the way that it’s presented: marketing and PR materials keep calling it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S Deadly Premonition was released ten years ago now, and you’d think that in that time people would have learned. But, nope. Ten years ago people fixated on technical issues of that game at the expense of the greater point, only for Deadly Premonition to eventually become…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Deadly Premonition 2 is a sequel that I don’t think any of us were expecting. The first was a cult hit in the truest sense, but the creators had moved on to other projects and the game itself had largely faded from memory. But here we…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Indies love horror, and it’s easy to understand why. Horror is reasonably within the means of smaller developers from a scope perspective. It presents an opportunity to limit the scale of an experience – a single house can be a playground for exquisite horror. You don’t…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When you think that The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters was created by a team of just four people, it’s impressive. The art and general vision of the game is refined to the highest degree, and the way that it reflects on social tensions within Korea, ranging…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There is a fine line between creating a homage and creating something derivative, but it makes all the difference. A homage is a celebration of something people love. It’s a stylistic call back to what people loved about the thing that it’s based on, but it…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We don’t have a western release just yet, but Nippon Ichi’s American arm, NISA, is pretty good at localising its stuff no matter how niche, so we do have high hopes that Yoru, Tomosu will get a spin in the west at some point. We really…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Inner Friend hasn’t been a commercial hit just yet. It was released on Steam back in September 2018 and to date only has 27 Steam user reviews. Nonetheless, it has met with some acclaim from the media and game show events, so perhaps this upcoming…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We’re getting closer to the release of Little Hope, the second in the Dark Pictures horror anthology by Supermassive Games (the first being Man of Medan). To get people good and excited, Supermassive Games has released a trailer for the new game, as well as some…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. World of Horror is an indie horror game that you’re going to hear a lot more about in the weeks and months ahead. It’s one of those games that is wowing everyone that has played it, and the world of mouth promotion of this one is…
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