It’s been a bit of a wait for Troublemaker: Raise Your Gang to come to everyone’s favourite dual-use gaming platform. The action adventure beat ’em up game launches for PC in March 2023 and Xbox in October 2023, and a sequel is being developed (Troublemaker 2: Beyond Dream), but it’s…
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Before I played Bustafellows, if you had told me that you could take the narrative qualities of noir fiction and pair it with the otome genre, I wouldn’t have believed you. As a genre, otome isn’t quite the “doe-eyed romance and frivolity for girls” genre that those who haven’t played…
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Ever found yourself looking at the state of video games and going: “Why are so many things becoming so simplified and streamlined?” RPGs are melding into big action games with pacy combat, rather than stats crunchers, strategy and simulation games are often so simplified that it’s impossible to actually lose…
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“Oh, great,” your little guide through the minigames of 100 in 1 Game Collection tells you as you unlock the next one. “A terrible puzzle game.” At least our little Dante is aware that you might not be enjoying your trip through hell. Look, I knew exactly what I was…
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We haven’t actually reviewed it for one reason or another (mostly we’ve been too busy playing it), but Songs of Conquest is one of the best Heroes of Might & Magic-like games that has been released in a very long time. And now a Switch port is imminent. Songs of…
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Once upon a time, Rune Factory was a simple matter of asking “What if Harvest Moon had some combat bits?” That was perfectly adequate in its own right, because it did add a fun way to take a break from farming and small-town socialising and to flex some muscle, but…
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Side-scrolling tower defense game HoloParade originally launched for PC via Steam in late 2023, and its Deluxe Edition is set to launch for Nintendo Switch in June. This version includes the base game and all of its DLC. HoloParade is a hololive fan game. It offers depth for dedicated players…
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hololive Treasure Mountain originally launched for PC last July. Now, the 3D physics puzzle game will be released for Nintendo Switch next month. This version will include the base game and all of its DLC. The goal is to stack 3D Hololive characters without letting them overflow.…
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The Pokémon Company has announced the launch details for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, which it describes as “a new frontier for the Pokémon video game series.” These details include the real-time RPG’s October release date, pre-order details, upgrade packs, cover art, and box shots. The cover art (above) features the game’s…
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7’scarlet has been around for several years on Steam, but the Nintendo Switch has become a solid home for the visual novel genre, so why not have it on this nice, slim, near-perfect “reading” device? I doubt many otome fans would say that it’s their favourite Otomate project, but at…
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