I’ll come right out and say it. I’ve been a little bit cynical when it comes to Team 17 this year. Mostly because they seem like an indie publisher turned AA publisher who hasn’t quite found their niche yet. We’ve covered quite a few of the games they have produced this year, including Thymesia, The …
If you are someone that consumes indie games on the regular, then you will be all too familiar with the term ‘Roguelike.’ Ever since the breakout success of Hades, this game format has been reused and repurposed more than ever. We have seen some incredible uses in the form of Returnal, and equally, we have …
When I undertake a review for a game, I play it with one thing in mind, if I had to describe the title in one sentence to one of my non-gaming friends, what would I say? For most games, this one-liner is simple to come up with. For something like Fortnite, I would sell it …
Cults management sims are wacky. Whether we’re sacrificing our followers to an Eldritch being from the great beyond or poisoning the punch for giggles, cult sims offer an excellent power trip for the morally ambiguous entrepreneur. While most cult management sims have stuck to core elements of managing a secret society, like Cult of the …
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Scorn, one of the most unique-looking titles to release in 2022, was heavily inspired by the artwork of two artists you’re probably unintentionally familiar with. H.G. Geiger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Geiger was the visionary visual artist for the original Alien movie, and Zdzisław Beksiński reached internet fame with his confusing, grotesque, and darkly expressive paintings. …
There’s an age-old technique in writing that states things are more satisfying when they come in threes. I can say without hesitation that after playing through FlyAway’s Triple Take, this is not entirely true. In fact, after sinking nearly eight hours into the punishingly difficult precision platformer, it wasn’t the fact that I had to …
When I was younger, I found a lot of solace in embedding myself in the media I was consuming, whether that was a film, a book, or, more often than not, a video game. As a child with an incredibly overactive imagination, I would devote hours to losing myself in scenarios where I became the …
“New York is a sucked orange”. That was philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s indictment, anyway: the city as a depraved cesspit bled dry of any value. It’s the antithesis of the old metaphor insinuating a limitless bounty of opportunity: the Big Apple. Or perhaps those two analogies are more interwoven than they first seem. In the …
Text adventures are brutal. The combination of intuition, guesswork, and luck won’t hesitate to murder us if we neglect the feral monkey flinging dung at us three paragraphs ago. While most text adventures have transitioned into hybrid isometric games like Divinity 2 and Disco Elysium, where text is a prelude to combat or silly antics, …
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As a storytelling medium, video games have revolutionized the craft. Video games allow consumers to engross themselves in stories like never before, and Beacon Pines is no different. This indie game will grip you from the start and refuses to let go, taking full advantage of the tools it has at its disposal. Beacon Pines, …
