News by Matt S. “If you like Persona, Adventure Games, Anime, Sci-Fi and existential dread then this could be for you.” I’ve got to say, it’s pretty ballsy for an indie developer to go out and promise something comparable to that. As someone who is indeed a (massive) fan of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Quantum Suicide has been a very long time coming. We first wrote about the game back in 2016, saw it in action in 2017 at TGS, and thought then that things were coming together nicely. As happens so often with video games, though, things didn’t come…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Here Be Dragons wants to be a satirical turn-based strategy game. What it is, though, is a deeply unfunny board game with an lovely (but pointless) art style. It’s fine for what it is, but it should have been so much more. Let’s start with the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Developer, Inkl, has announced that it will launch Arthurian strategy game, Pendragon, on PC (Steam and GOG) on September 22. Promising to be a heavily narrative-driven take on the knights and legends, the game has a vibrant art style and intriguing premise. From the press release:…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The survival genre is interesting to write about critically, since many design choices which would feel grating or exhausting in any other genre are, instead, the survival game’s calling card. Things like permadeath, repetition, disempowerment, unsatisfying combat, even at times tedium – normally we don’t value…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In the grand scheme of things, you’re not going to remember Giraffe and Annika. It doesn’t do anything particularly eye-opening with its design and gameplay, and it’s not a substantial contribution to any particular kind of discourse. What it is, however, is blissfully sweet and good-natured,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Publisher, PQube, is responsible for finding some of the most eclectic games from across Asia for publishing (and boy do we love them for that). The latest was announced overnight. Coming from Indonesian studio, Mojiken, A Space for the Unbound is a slice-of-life adventure game about…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I’m all for cultural games and that means I’ll naturally have a positive slant towards titles like Road to Guangdong. This game, penned by writer Yen Ooi and published by Excalibur Games, sees the player taking the role of Sunny, a recent art graduate in mid-90’s…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Not every game lands and is met with immediate success. For many developers – especially those that operate in niche spaces like visual novels – success comes organically, as word of mouth spreads and people discover that this humble little thing, swimming in an ocean of…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Yesterday/earlier today (depending on where you are in the world) Nintendo hosted a joyful little showcase of “indie” games, including a big pile of same-day drops onto the Nintendo Switch. It was actually one of Nintendo’s better performances this year, with a wall-to-wall dose of high…
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