Preview by Harvard L. The first thing Acid Nerve’s top-down action game, Death’s Door, has going for it – it GIFs really well. Check out the team’s Twitter and you’ll find multiple crunchy loops of a well-timed sword swing bouncing a projectile back at an enemy, and it’s just so…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It might have taken 15 years for Wizardry: The Five Ordeals to be localised outside of Japan, but that is indeed now happening, and this promises to be one special game. Have you ever played a Japanese dungeon crawler and thought to yourself “I could do…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We do like a good tactics RPG experience here at DDNet. Publisher 1C Entertainment and developer 40 Giants Entertainment look set to provide that with Reverie Knights Tactics, which will launch this year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam. The developer…
Read MoreReview by Alex Kidman. Back when I was but a teenager – which wasn’t quite the middle ages, but was some time ago – I attended a medieval-themed fancy dress party. As was befitting my social status at the time, I went dressed as a humble peasant. Yes, I was…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I’m not entirely sure how you could look at the classic tale of Pinocchio, then look at Dark Souls, and decide to combine them, but that’s what developer Round8 Studio has done, and that’s what we’re getting with Lies of P; a “dark reimagining of the…
Read MoreI’m going to be honest, Essays on Empathy is precisely the kind of game that I would purchase, and then inevitably let languish in my Steam library because I’m never “in the mood”. Such has been my tendency of late when it comes to art games; there are dozens that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S.When it rains, it pours. We just got a duo of excellent detective noir visual novels from Nintendo in Famicom Detective Club, and now maverick publisher, PQube, has a big announcement to follow up on that; its detective otome VN, Bustafellows, will release on PC and Nintendo…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The original Valthirian Arc was a pretty decent little game. It wasn’t something completely memorable, but as we noted in our review: “Valthirian Arc: Hero School offers a quaint, if not overly original concept… It’s easy to pick up and play for short bursts, and as…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m not much of a PC gamer. I prefer the console experience, and always have, but there are some games that just wouldn’t work anywhere on console. The Total War series is one such example. The combination of tense real-time (if pausable) combat and grand strategy…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The quality of Dungeons & Dragons games has been up and down over the years, but Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was one of the better ones. While it shares its name with the greatest western RPG ever, Dark Alliance isn’t the same kind of turn-based narrative-driven…
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