Tradespeople have their power tools, and become very attached to the equipment that supports their livelihood. Athletes have their preferred racquet, shoe and clothing brand, for the comfort and competitive advantage the right gear can provide. As a writer, I am always on the lookout for a keyboard that is…
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure has been my addiction since its launch for Nintendo Switch in January 2025. I have played every single day. I have met every single character. I have earned every single visitor. I have completed all the puzzles. I have completed the main storyline. I’ve completed the…
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Not A Cat Studios has announced STARCULT. Night: Twisted Age. The dark fantasy romantic visual novel is set in a world on the brink of disaster, and players must use an Emotion Palette to read others’ true emotions and intentions, influence relationships, and uncover the truth behind a brutal murder.…
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I went into Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, having not played the original, and not really followed it. That is to say, I went in entirely unprepared for the utterly surreal experience that awaited me. I started by making myself, as is fairly standard for “life sim” games like these.…
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Here’s a stealth drop that was more than appreciated: SNEG and Games Workshop partnered up to bring 20 classic Warhammer and Warhammer 40K games to Steam. Many of these are games that had already been released on the platform but, for one reason or another, had been delisted. However, many…
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Hidden object games are a dime a dozen. Hidden Around the World is one of many I have received news about, and I wanted to review it because I adored its predecessor, Hidden in my Paradise. It’s similar but larger, if that makes sense. The levels are much larger, with…
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Silverstring Media and indie.io have announced a mid-May release date for relaxing, semi-idle garden game Greenhearth Necromancer. You play as Echo, an enby witch and a newly graduated Actual Necromancer; she recently inherited her grandmother’s apartment. As the newbie at the Greenhearth co-op, you will have to revive a dead…
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Publisher Idea Factory International has announced a preorder date of April 22 for physical copies of otome visual novel fan disc Birushana: Winds of Fate; it will be available through the IFI Online Store and participating retailers. The company has also announced the contents of the game’s Plus Version, exclusive…
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I suppose it was inevitable that at some stage, some indie developer would look at Scrabble and think to themselves “Roguelike!” After all, that r-word seems to be perennially glued into the indie developer mindset these days. Despite my growing hesitancy to touch anything with said r-word in the feature…
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There was a time when Capcom was the most experimental game publisher, by a long way. Those of us who had PS2s and GameCubes at the time will remember that alongside the likes of Resident Evil 4, Capcom developed highly experimental stuff like P.N.03 and published Killer7, which was the…
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