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Loot River Review – An Innovative but Flawed Roguelike

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…

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Road 96 Review

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,…

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Young Souls Review – Two Teammates Talk Tough Twins

It seems like every new game that comes out requires more hyphenated descriptors than the last one. Today’s impressively long list of adjectives comes courtesy of Young Souls, a co-op side-scrolling beat-em-up dungeon-crawler RPG developed by 1P2P and published by…

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ICARUS Review — Mission-Driven Sandbox Survival

ICARUS, an ambitious new survival sandbox title from RocketWerkz and its game-runner Dean Hall (of DayZ fame) was released last December after 2 years of development and a marathon of 8 Beta Testing weekends, spread over 4 months. After that…

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Infernax Review – Demonically Delightful NEStalgia

Since Valentine’s day is a made-up, materialistic holiday, it seems a particularly appropriate day to tell you about something else you should buy that involves lots of red, hearts, and is totally made up — Infernax, from Berzerk Studio. These…

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Sifu Review – Kung Fu(n) for Everyone

Full disclosure: I didn’t play Absolver. So if you’re looking for me to compare Sifu to Sloclap’s previous title, I can’t help you. What I can tell you is, I had a blast with this one. Melee combat has always…