News by Matt S. Publisher, FuRyu, has been behind niche hits like The Caligula Effect and Lost Dimension, and we’re hoping that Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Spring, based on the anime, can continue the trend. Yuuna is a mystery dungeon experience (hence the “Dungeon” in the title), and it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the problems that “Diablo clones” face is that their genre is named for competition that’s almost impossible to beat. Diablo has barely missed a step since its original release, so many years ago now, and with Diablo 3 going from strength to strength, it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a child, I spent more time than was healthy being utterly enthralled by the old Dungeons & Dragons PC titles. From Eye of the Beholder and Wake of the Ravager, through to Strahd’s Possession and, later, Baldur’s Gate, I would play and replay these games,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hyakki Castle is one of my favourite dungeon crawlers in recent years. It plays much like a modern western dungeon crawler (think Legend of Grimrock rather than Wizardry), but has an unmistakably Japanese aesthetic, theme, and tone. It’s an eclectic blend, to be sure, but it…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. We first had the pleasure of playing Hyakki Castle when it was released for PC in 2017, and Matt gave it a high rating, praising its combination of a Western approach to a dungeon crawler with Japanese themes. And today, the game has been released on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Games Workshop, the company that creates the Warhammer tabletop game, has adopted one of the strangest licensing strategies after THQ – its previous partner and exclusive license holder – declared bankruptcy. Since then, the company has licensed its Warhammer properties to just about any developer. Warhammer…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. There have been plenty of Nintendo Switch ports filling up the news over the past year, but this one is right up there with the biggest announcement of all; Diablo III is coming to the console in 2018. It joins the likes of Titan Quest and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Tanzia isn’t the first single player game to attempt to emulate the classical MMO. It won’t be the last. There have been successful attempts at this; the Sword Art Online franchise, for example, or Cyberdimension Neptunia. And then there’s Taniza. Dear lord is Tanzia a brutally…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. As the Banner Saga draws to its fateful conclusion, what was previously a death march now feels like a funeral procession. The team behind it has risen to unexpected heights in the wake of the success of the trilogy’s first two titles. There’s always been a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Realms of Arkania: Star Trail is two things; firstly, it’s a really fine RPG in its own right, hearkening back to the very most traditional ideals of the genre. This is a game for people who fondly remember the first and second editions of Dungeons &…
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