Western publisher NIS America has announced a May 2027 release date for storybook adventure game The Grimm Reapress and the Drearytale Monster. The single-player, story-driven adventure, from the team behind The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince, originally launched in Japan in April 2026. In the West, it will launch for PC, PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and Switch.…
Koei Tecmo and Gust have announced that The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother will launch in March 2027. New gameplay details have been revealed, and a new gameplay trailer premiered to celebrate the start of pre-orders. This is the first console game adaptation of The Apothecary Diaries. Meet new…
Homer’s The Odyssey has gained extreme popularity following the release of the…
Monomyth Games has announced its first game since 2018’s Need to Know,…
There may have already been a few videos on developer Zomorro Studio’s YouTube page regarding Barraka, but today the game was officially officially announced by publisher Dojo System. The game uses various techniques to recreate a stop-motion look, creating a ’90s village fair setting where lovable characters and disturbing enemies…
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Animation Arts has been around for a little over two decades now, and has a particularly well-regarded reputation for its work in classic point-and-click titles. Most people with a fondness for the genre know the Secret Files trilogy, after all. Monolith is the team’s latest. Sadly, it’s not up to…
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I do not know what I was thinking when I didn’t include the announcement of Odencat’s next game in my Indie Live Expo 2024 catch-up, but I am here to rectify that issue now! My first Odencat game was Fishing Paradiso, and I’ve found the same charm from that game…
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Ever since I read my first Moomin book as a child – I dimly think it might have been Comet in Moominland – I’ve been besotted with Tove Jansson’s endlessly fascinating Finnish trolls and their motley crew of quite literally fantastic friends and family. The books have always been the…
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Unfortunately, because I was away last week, I didn’t get a chance to review Another Code: Recollection in time for the embargo lifting. It’s unfortunate not because I missed out on the initial rush of clicks when being one of the first to review a game of a decent profile.…
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Detective adventure is one of my favourite video game genres; I adore finding evidence and putting together clues to solve a mystery. Players do just that in Beyond Horizons, where they take on the role of Stella aboard a ship (the Zephyr) en route to a distant star. Stella is…
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I joke frequently about how I’ve never made it off the tutorial plateau of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, so it’s just as well that you don’t need to have played that game to get stuck into Tears of the Kingdom (though I’m sure it helps). Tears…
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. When you think of England’s iconic moors,…
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Wayward Strand is such an odd little game, but that is by no means a criticism. Despite its utterly fantastic concept, and ironically given that it takes place in a floating airship, this game is sweet, meditative, and very grounded. It’s also incredibly Australian, but not in the over-the-top, Crocodile…
Read MoreUchikoshi Kotaro has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the thinky game artists going around. The Zero Escape series established that reputation, while the original AI: The Somnium Files reinforced it. The sequel, nirvanA Initiative (‘A’ and ‘I’ capitalised, geddit?) doesn’t break new ground, but then again it also…
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