Category: Review
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What Does It Mean To Be Blink-182 in 2023?
Imagine you’ve been doing something for a long time. I mean, a LONG time. Several decades at least. You’ve become famous (well, notable) for the thing you do, and even when you’ve decided to stop doing that thing or do something else, you still have people coming up to you thanking you for doing the…
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First Glimpse: My Work Is Not Yet Done
I’ve been heavily anticipating Spencer Yan’s upcoming game, My Work Is Not Yet Done (Mac ver: itch.io) (Sutemi Productions/Raw Fury), since it was announced a few years ago. Ahead of Steam Next Fest we finally have a very small demo of the game that showcases its movement, controls, a good chunk of lore and worldbuilding,…
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Complexity and Flatness
It’s weird to call a game in which your character avatar is climbing a massive tower “flat,” but that is what Chants of Sennaar – by Rundisc and published by Focus Entertainment – feels like out of necessity. The game’s principal mechanic is language learning, but how that works in practice bears little resemblance to…
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A Gun That Never Misses
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon story spoilers ahead. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. For all intents and purposes, Rubicon III – the setting of Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon – is a dead planet orbiting the star of a dead system. A half-century before we arrive and the events of the game…
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The Signal and the Noise
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, the sequel to 2016’s Oxenfree, is haunted.
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Loved and Lost
I think there’s value in telling stories similar to Maquette, where relationships fall apart and don’t get put back together. But I don’t really think this game gets there.
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Year of Games #11: Citizen Sleeper DLC
Citizen Sleeper is a game that acknowledges that living a life in which you are an active participant is difficult, but asks you to do it anyway.
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First impressions: 1000XResist
1000xResist’s demo has a lot of promise – and time travel.
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LudoNarraCon Preview: Times and Galaxy Demo
Fellow Traveller announced the new title from Copychaser Games, and we were able to take an early sneak peek at the demo!
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Year of Games #10.5: Some things I’ve played but not finished
a few games and an announcement.