Review by Matt S. Papers, Please is a masterpiece that will endure on for its ability to put you in a position of moral hopelessness. Playing as an immigration official, you need to make sure the right people enter your country, and that those people have the right paperwork. Your…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Root Letter: Last Answer leaves me in a very difficult position. On the one hand, and purely on a sentimental level, Root Letter is my favourite visual novel. I’d argue that there are smarter and deeper VNs out there – Steins;Gate, for example, and there are…
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 MoreNews by Matt S. Most people are still dilligently plugging their way through Astral Chain, but the next big Nintendo Switch exclusive is just around the corner. Daemon X Machina is a mech action game, and it is looking very fine indeed. Publisher, Marvelous, has released the launch trailer of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Why are you doing this to us?” one of the victims in the film, The Strangers (2008), screams out. It’s a film in which a happy couple are attacked by a gang of mask-wearing sadistic killers for no apparent reason. Of course, that apparent lack of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m not sure there’s any developer out there that understands movement quite like PlatinumGames. Astral Chain is an incredibly fast game when the action scenes kick in, but the sheer agility and grace with which your avatar moves is almost dance-like in its elegance. In fact, given…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Ashen, the well-regarded New Zealand-made Dark Souls-like, was previously an Epic Games Store and Xbox One exclusive. Now the game has a release date set for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, as well as Steam and GOG, breaking it free of exclusivity. It launches on all of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Snooker is a great game and sport. Unfortunately, Snooker doesn’t really work as a video game. The developer of Snooker 19, Lab42, have done a good job in faithfully recreating the world of competitive Snooker, but the team has been unable to overcome the reality that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA has released a new trailer for Disaster Report 4. Showing off more the concept of the game than any particular element of gameplay, it introduces some of the characters, and the situation they’ve got themselves into. In Disaster Report 4, an earthquake has hit the…
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…
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