About an hour into my time with Quarries of Scred, I decided to look at the game’s stats page and see what my progress has been like. To my surprise, sixty minutes into the game I had made one hundred attempts into the game’s randomly generated mines. Published by Surprise…
Read MoreThe point-and-click adventure genre has seen some solid releases over the last year, and Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is another solid example of the genre. The dark, dystopian atmosphere is well-realised through the handful of hours it takes to reach the story’s conclusion. A conclusion however, that did its…
Read MoreAlmost everyone remembers playing with sliding puzzles when they were young. Those small, square puzzles with pieces that slid to reveal a picture were anywhere from so easy a toddler could do it to so mind-bendingly frustrating nobody could figure out what needed to go where in order to solve…
Read MoreI was driving around aimlessly in a stolen black Vapid Bullet, when I collided against a white Benefactor Panto (which had appeared out of nowhere). My car hit a pole and stalled. When I stepped out of my vehicle to inspect the damage, I found out to my horror that…
Read MoreWar for the Overworld is another in a growing list of Kickstarter campaigns that were successfully crowdfunded. In this case, the game pays homage to the classic Dungeon Keeper series from EA. What started out as a fan-made sequel after EA cancelled the development of Dungeon Keeper 3: War for…
Read MoreConvoy is one of those games that’s not entirely unique – it’s been defined as a mix between Mad Max and FTL: Faster Than Light since its Kickstarter inception – and on the surface level it could easily be passed off as another ‘clone’; yet, in doing so, you would…
Read MoreI’m not normally the one to jump the gun at trying out a horror game, or anything that could potentially provide jump scares or even just suspense. Yet, here I found myself playing a game that could realise all these fears at once. From the moment that I stepped into…
Read MoreBlue Estate is an rails shooter much in the vein of the the House of the Dead series. It is also based on a comic by Viktor Kalvachev & Kosta Yanev. Now, I have never read the comics so I can’t say if this game stays true to the story…
Read MoreDreadbit’s Ironcast is a wonderfully zany mix of elements and gameplay mechanics from different genres. A sort of Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure meets Super Puzzle Street Fighter II, with a steampunk aesthetic, some complex resource-management thrown in, and turn-based RPG mechanics, Ironcast is as addictive and engaging as…
Read MoreWhat is up with indie game developers and their love affair with notoriously difficult games? There’s Super Meat Boy, that makes all the veins on my forehead pop out, Braid, a mind-bending, time-twisting that confuses as it entertains, Fez, where some of the puzzles are surely impossible, and now we…
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