Review by Matt S. Blackguards had the potential to be something truly exceptional, promising a deep tactical RPG experience with a penchant for extreme difficulty and hexes. That’s right, hexes! Strategy gamers love hexes. Someone should have then explained to the developers, Daedalic Entertainment, that if you are going to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why do I love Might & Magic X so much? Let me count the ways! 1) It’s an old-school style RPG Might & Magic X is a turn based game where players move around an environment laid out like a grid, one step at a time.…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. I swear the game starts off just like my typical Thursday nights. The hero of Unepic is sitting around a table with some friends playing a pen-and-paper game like Dungeons & Dragons. Banter. Check. Snarky remarks. Check. This is looking good! Then something strange happens. The…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. The major studios will almost certainly never adopt a “mobile first” strategy for RPG development. The genre is notoriously expensive to work with as it requires lengthy development cycles, high production values, and lengthy narratives that require an order of magnitude more work around level design,…
Read MoreReview by Andrew M. The Walking Dead is a monumental staple of modern culture. The effects have seemed to reverberate throughout almost every medium with zombie stories being even more common now than they were before. While I don’t know if Overlive – Zombie Survival RPG was directly influenced by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Avadon 2 is a game that we truly love at DDNet. The work of indie mastermind, Jeff Vogel, it’s as traditional as RPGs come, and people who have fond memories of the likes of Baldur’s Gate will love it. Vogel’s greatest strength has always been in…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Ossian Studios recently released an iOS-exclusive RPG that offers the depth you’d expect from a console or PC game, and in doing so have reinforced the reality that for some genres, mobile platforms are every bit as capable as their traditional platform counterparts. This is a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Shadow Sun floored me from start to finish. It’s been quite some time now since a developer took on the task of an exclusive, new, RPG for the iOS platform that offers modern production values, but that’s precisely what’s happened here, and the result is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Wayforward is usually reliable. Even when it’s building licensed titles it’s usually reliable (Thor on the DS is a truly great brawler). And while Wayforward is well known for its platformers, it has proven that it does understand dungeon crawlers with the excellent Silent Hill: Book of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Not that much has been done to this re-release of Baldur’s Gate 2. But then not much needed to be done; it’s as close to the perfect game as games come. Now on a personal level I prefer BioWare’s first Baldur’s Gate game. Back when I…
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