Looking for a relaxing platforming puzzler than you can tackle at your own pace? Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles offers a relaxing and vibrant eight-hour retreat from the world. But know that you won’t find much ...
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Wildcat Gun Machine’s tonality is as ridiculous as its title. Artwork shifts from ‘conceivably cute’ during gameplay to “serious” on the upgrade screen. Sometimes, you’re side-stepping bullets that look like pink bubbles. In other moments, ...
Read More »HunterX review
With responsive and stylish combat and a lot of freedom to spec your blazer-clad, katana-wielding protagonist, HunterX offers engaging action and more autonomy that the genre usually supplies. Orange Popcorn’s HunterX is mostly devoid of ...
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With references that range from Valkyria Chronicles, Hanna- Barbera, and with a slightly sus-looking cartoonish character, Among Us, Research and Destroy offers a hodge-podge of pop culture references. But the game’s best qualities are the ...
Read More »Riveting but Not Quite Revolutionary: An Early Look at Uragun (PC)
Uragun, the inaugural effort from Warsaw-based Kool2Play, imagines a dystopian future overrun by artificial intelligence. Currently in Early Access, the game’s exposition is skeletal, with a brief prologue and a few lines of disrespect uttered ...
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Sure, Dōkyūsei: Bangin’ Summer’s setup is skeletal, mostly centering on making the last few weeks of summer vacation memorable. As a remaster on the original 1992 eroge, this is a dating sim where your actions ...
Read More »B.I.O.T.A. review
Fatigued by all the metroidvanias games there days? B.I.O.T.A. is a Megatroid, blending elements of Mega Man and Metroid. It offers an absorbing trip back to the early Nineties, recalling an era when games taught ...
Read More »Facing the Undead and Uncertainty in Ed-0: Zombie Uprising
If you only enjoy the kind of technically proficient but slightly sterile experiences offered by triple-A games, you might want to steer clear of Ed-0: Zombie Uprising. Released by D3Publisher, it recalls the inelegant but ...
Read More »Andro Dunos 2 review
Journeying through Andro Dunos 2 feels like finding an alternate reality, where Visco built on the foundations of it’s 1992 shooter and crafted a sequel that thoroughly improves on its predecessor while still adhering to the ...
Read More »Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure review
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is good enough to belong in a museum. Unfortunately, it’s priced that way, too. Advancements in pinball have been driven by technological innovation- most notably when the industry moved from ...
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