Review by Harvard L. The Stillness of the Wind is a game about deterioration – about watching the things that we love, and which we have worked hard to preserve, slowly crumble away around us. It follows an elderly woman named Talma who cares for a small flock of goats…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Shrouded Isle is immediately appealing because of the aesthetic. Like the yellowed pages of a book from antiquity, the deep sepia tones, combined with the promise of a dark narrative of sacrifice and worship, is very hard to ignore. The actual game isn’t even remotely…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Kairosoft simulators are really hard to put down. There has been a lot of them now, and every single time they’ve offered the lightest of simulation gameplay coupled with adorable pixel graphics that are so charming that once you start playing, it’s easy to be swept…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of my pet loves. Right back from the release of the original in 1999, it has been a series of pure wish fulfillment; after all, who doesn’t want to build and manage a theme park? It also had a wicked sense of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Football Manager games look like spreadsheets. They feel like spreadsheets to play. If spreadsheets had a smell, they’d smell like them too. On a fundamental level, it seems so silly that there would be this sports game franchise which doesn’t involve any on-field sports action. And…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In Australia, climate change is hitting our farmers hard. Prolonged drought, ruined crops… it’s not a pleasant time to be a farmer across much of the country. That’s something that most of us don’t think about much. We live comfortably in cities where agriculture is almost…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If it wasn’t for Project Highrise landing on Nintendo Switch just a week ago, I’d be recommending Townsmen. The Nintendo Switch is a perfect device for city building simulators, but aside from a really (really) poor port of Cities: Skylines and a cheap little mobile port…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Last year, 11 bit studios took This War of Mine in a new direction with This War of Mine: Stories, DLC for the PC version of the title dedicated to providing in-depth narrative experiences in addition to the base game. The first episode, Father’s Promise, was…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first time I put virtual paint to my virtual canvas, as I set out to make a career in the traditional arts, set against the backdrop of modern Paris, I drew the most juvenile thing I could imagine (i.e. a certain part of male anatomy).…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Lindsay, DDNet’s news editor, is going to hate me for saying this, because she is constantly telling me know great Reigns is, but I’ve not actually played either the original, or its sequel (Her Majesty) before. As great as these games have always sounded, they’ve been…
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