Review by Sam M. There’s something really special about Ori and the Blind Forest. It’s a touching story of friendship and kindness, told through a simplistic story and a beautiful art style. Yet something so simple, and so beautiful is also one of the best games available. While the original…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. While best thought of as a collectible card game, Duelyst really does not look the part. It has a very stylised pixel art aesthetic mixed with a turn-based system that can make it a challenging game to drop into any one bucket. Perhaps that is the…
Read MoreReview by Hamza A. The Collider 2 is a tunnel racer that’s unlike most tunnel racers out there. With fantastic visuals and a sleek sci-fi setting that brings to mind the world of Mass Effect, The Collider 2 is as visually impressive as it is in its gameplay. Featuring high…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. It almost feels trivial to write about Western Press, a game with such a short runtime that you could feasibly finish a dozen rounds in the time it takes to read this review. A one-on-one twitch multiplayer game developed by Bandit-1 and published by Aussie favourite…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. iNK Stories has, in 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, created a narrative exploration of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which provides insight on the events that transpired by giving players the opportunity to live through them. And it is such an important game. Everyone should play it.…
Read MoreReview by Mikhail M. Over the last few months, a lot of Japanese game publishers and developers have been dipping their toes into the PC platform via Steam. Aksys was one, publishing the Arc System Works-developed visual novel Xblaze Code: Embryo on Steam recently and while it’s fun, it also…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a quick talk about NightCry. Developed by Nude Maker studios and featuring talent like Hifumi Kono, the director of the original Clock Tower games, and Takashi Shimizu, the film director responsible for terrifying classics like Ju-On, among other high profile talents,…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Despite not having heard of the Kingdom Wars series before, I came away pleasantly pleased with what the title had to offer. It is a unit-based real-time strategy game in the vein of Total War that does most things rather well. And, while it starts out…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. At first glance, Polaris Sector appears to be a deep 4x strategy game that looks and feels familiar, but might not immediately stand out. It is a game that you need to really spend some time with and invest in if you are going to get…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Way of the Samurai 3 is the third title in a series of very Japanese open world adventure games developed by Acquire, and currently being updated and rereleased on Steam by Ghostlight. Originally a game on PS3, Way of the Samurai plays like no other open…
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