Review by Harvard L. Dungeons and Aliens, developed by Kool2Play and published by Arts Alliance, purports to be a defence game. Which is accurate enough – you are defending yourself from an onslaught of alien invaders, using light strategy elements to succeed. Starting its original life as a phone game…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Brazil is a future star of game development, of that I am absolutely certain. With games like Toren, Chroma Squad and Knights of Pen & Paper, the fledgling games industry there is demonstrating that its talent is both highly creative, and makes games that have a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. All the way back in 2013, Path of Exile was released on PC. Developed by New Zealand-based (and now Tencent-owned) Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile drew immediate attention for being one incredibly good “Diablo-clone”, and being very reasonable with its monetisation model. Basically, the game…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Remember when just about every second mobile phone game was from the tower defence genre? There was a period where it was a little like the roguelike genre is today, with developers falling over themselves in excitement to announce that they’ve created a new tower defence…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Roguelikes” are dime a dozen these days. Any game that takes a procedural approach to the level design (i.e. the level is randomised) is proudly broadcast as a roguelike, and it’s easy to understand why; random levels means unlimited replay value, or something. If that’s not…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Thea: The Awakening is one of the most impressive indie titles from recent years, and it has found an ideal platform on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a game that deftly moves between so many genres that it defies any attempt to pigeonhole it, but if you…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Of the many, many indie games out there, one of those that really stands out as something that might have been overlooked by a lot of people that would otherwise love it is Thea: The Awakening. Superficially it looks like Civilization, but then you start playing,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Keep is a real-time dungeon crawler with a very old-school sensibility to it. It revels in the simplistic, retro B-grade narrative and design that it brings to the table, and is just self-aware enough to have fun with it. It’s the kind of game that…
Read MoreReview by Lee F. Mech Rage is a neat arcade title that seems at home on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a top-down shooter with responsive controls where you move from room to room clearing out baddies to progress to the next, collecting currency along the way to change and upgrade…
Read MorePreview by Priscilla M. Over the years there has been many games that have tried to replicate the ever-popular Pokémon formula, which has captivated millions across the world. Most fail to surpass being tagged as a ‘Pokémon clone’ and are often forgotten about by the time the next Pokémon instalment…
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