Gaming Reviews

When creating Foretales, developer Alkemi Games wanted to create an open-ended adventure, where your choices matter and shape the story. They accomplished this by making the entire game revolve around cards, used to navigate through a non-linear story. While the…

There’s a very specific genre of movie, generally directed by Guy Ritchie, that I can only describe as “dark comedies with British criminals who do a small crime and then oops we’re enmeshed in something much larger”. While I very…

When Thymesia’s initial trailer dropped many immediately pegged it as a Bloodborne clone; their interest in the game was therefore based on whether or not more Bloodborne was something they wanted. I too assumed it was yet another AA soulsborne…

Many video games have three common character tropes: the princess, the hero, and the villain. These games also have the same basic outline for their story — the villain kidnaps the princess, and the hero has to go on a…

I’m a huge wuss when it comes to scary stuff. Horror movies, spooky video games, a dark hallway in an unfamiliar house – all terrifying. So when I tell you Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is scary, you may need to…

When creating Trek to Yomi, Leonard Menchiari and Flying Wild Hog Rzeszów wanted to create a game that lets players feel like they’re in a Japanese movie from the 50s and 60s. To accomplish this, they made sure everything felt…

When I saw the initial Loot River announcement trailer, it felt like someone had looked at my most-played genres on Steam and created a game by mixing them together. Soulsborne style combat? Check. Dark fantasy world? Check. Pixel-graphics, procedurally generated…

With Road 96, Digixart set out to create a procedural road trip game, in which you can have an unpredictable journey, while also making choices along the way that will influence the larger story. The result is a game that,…