No Escape
It’s been a couple weeks since I rolled credits on Return to Grace, Creative Bytes Studios’ third game. It’s a nominal first-person adventure game where you play a future archaeologist on a suicide mission to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, to make contact with a long-dormant, possibly dead artificial intelligence that once controlled the entire Solar […]
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.
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.
I’ll tell you what wasn’t on anyone’s radar: a colorful, cartoonish Shinji Mikami-produced rhythm action game set to a soundtrack of Nine Inch Nails, Number Girl and The Black Keys with obscenely high production and animation values and some really funny gags. And yet,
As a rule, it’s never a good idea to judge a game – or any piece of media – based on its marketing. Unfortunately, you can basically get the gist of Somerville from its trailers.
Possessions (2019, Noodlecake, Apple Arcade) and Unpacking (2021, Witch Beam, Xbox Game Pass) share quite a few surface similarities. Each game is defined primarily by its colorful aesthetics. You rarely, if ever, see the subjects of the game’s story, just important items in their lives. Your main means of interactivity involve manipulating these objects into […]