Created by two former Sims developers, Petunia’s Purgatory is a cozy horror idle farming sim that sits at the bottom of your desktop. Grow crops, sacrifice critters, summon helpers to your cursed farm, and keep Petunia’s sanity in check before the game begins invading your desktop. The game will launch for PC in July. (Too bad it’s not for Mac;…
The Japanese voice cast for Persona 4 Revival is the same as in the original, but in English, there is an all-new voice cast, ATLUS announced today. Recently, the developer/publisher also revealed a February 2027 launch date for the remake. Persona 4 Revival investigates a string of murders, with players…
A demo for ReStory was released as part of this month’s Steam…
PQube and Wisageni Studio have announced a July release date for K-pop…
I’m the first to admit that I’m drawn to witchy titles, and that does include wizardry. When the game doesn’t deposit cash directly into the pockets of a mega-TERF, even better. So I’ve had my eye on Spells & Secrets for a while now, and I’m thrilled to write that…
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Last month, I wrote about a Stray Souls trailer that (I thought) stated it would be available Halloween 2023. I mistakenly believed this meant it would launch on Halloween, but that’s not the case as it was announced today that the game would actually launch a week prior to that.…
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Upcoming factory building game Foundry has been in development for a while, and is now being developed under the Channel 3 Entertainment name. The game gives players the freedom to build the factory of their dreams in a voxel procedurally-generated world. Today, Paradox Interactive and Channel 3 Entertainment announced a…
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Pixel Cafe is an upcoming game for PC and consoles that is described as part time management, part retro narrative, and totally wholesome. Today, the latest story trailer was released. Pixel is the name of the game’s heroine, and players experience the world through her eyes while she deals with…
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Sunshine Manor blends hand-drawn pixel graphics and an 80s-inspired soundtrack; that combination is quite tantalising to someone of my age (I may or may not be nearing 40, which is just about as scary as Sunshine Manor looks to be). Add that to the fact it’s also inspired by 80s…
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It’s not often(if ever?) that a game is described as a complex alchemy RPG, but that’s exactly what BattleJuice Alchemist is. Okay, it could also be described as an action-adventure RPG, but that sounds far more generic and far less cool. Developer Alchemical Works and publisher ESDigital Games announced the…
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Horror games don’t have to launch in October, just before Halloween, right? Natuya Studio is hopefully about to prove that with Hollow Cocoon, a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan that will be launching this December. There will, however, be a demo ready in time for Halloween: it…
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If you haven’t played The Talos Principle, I’d recommend it. Nick gave it a 4.5-star review, writing, “Few games have everything working in such synchronised harmony as The Talos Principle. The world, puzzles, narrative and music are all served to the player in small helpings, never overwhelming and allowing you…
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The next visual novel that PQube is bringing West is Archetype Arcadia, which is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious and deadly disease called Original Sindrome has wiped out most of humanity. It causes nightmares, manic episodes, and eventually death. The story follows one of the remaining humans.…
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A month ago, I wrote about the release date for voxel art train sim Station to Station. It’s currently on track (ha) for its October release date, and today the developer announced a new game mode that is coming to the full launch – the popularly-requested Custom Game Mode.…
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