Video by Harvard L. Kingsway is an odd little game, but a very creative one indeed. It’s an RPG in which you play through an operating system. Enemies are pop-ups, quests are emails. Honestly, an operating system has never been more interesting or fun. Harvard continues his series of let’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. City builders – or similarly-themed “builder” simulators – are a favourite genre of mine, but only when a developer gets them right. Entries into this genre feature a great deal of number crunching, and require that players have a good nose for design, balancing, statistics, and…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Last week on the Digitally Uploaded podcast, Harvard challenged himself to do a let’s play. And here it is! There’s no real reason for this video beyond that, but tune in and you’ll get some great insights about one of the true indie classics. And if…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. The relationship Felix The Reaper has with music and with dance is the kind of feeling you get at a wedding (that is not your own). That bubbly free flowing love music that permeates the entire music selection. However it also feels like it comes from…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Silk is what happens when a independent developer has a wildly ambitious idea, and the gonads to actually make it. Silk proudly proclaims that it is “50 times larger than Daggerfall!” and offers “three million square miles of uncharted terrain” to explore. That sounds impressive –…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Simogo’s Sayonara Wild Hearts is a game which I can’t stop thinking about. On the surface it’s simple enough to enjoy – a music-based arcade game with pared-back mechanics suited well to short bursts, a dazzling graphic style of pinks and purples and a swathe of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. You’ve got to hand it to the development team behind Dead or School. Despite the Indiegogo campaign to fund the game failing spectacularly back in 2016, the small team has persevered and managed to get the thing over the line. It’s not bad, either. Dead or…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. It’s a big week for big narrative game releases. Control just landed, and we’ve got reviews of Astral Chain, Man of Medan, and plenty more besides coming this week too. But despite having all that great stuff to play, what I’ve actually found myself spending a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Pantsu Hunter wants you to believe that it’s offering a nostalgic trip back to your youth. As its very description reads: “Share a heart-to-heart talk, watch a movie together, take a bath, remove a computer virus, help a girl in a tough spot and – if…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tower Five is a new indie startup, comprised of former Total War developers that decided to break away and do their own thing. Their first project, Lornsword Winter Chronicle, is an action strategy game, and it has been announced for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, to…
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