Calum Petrie previews Encased… Encased is a lovingly crafted RPG that tips its hat to the isometric styles of Fallout, Diablo and many other greats. Created by Dark Crystal Games, founded in December 2017, their main objective has been to create this dense and deep world that we are going to inhabit in Encased. The game […]
Exclusive Interview – Frontier Developments talk Planet Zoo’s Southeast Asia Animal Pack
Harrison Abbott talks with Frontier Developments about Planet Zoo’s Southeast Asia Animal Pack… Although they have dabbled in a few other genres (including party games and space exploration MMOs), the bread and butter for Cambridge-based team, Frontier Developments, is surely the management sim. Ever since the early 2000s, they’ve been enabling people to realise their […]
Video Game Review – Open Sorcery: Sea++
Red Stewart reviews Open Sorcery: Sea++ for PC (Steam)… In his initial review of the indie drama Tru Loved, Roger Ebert garnered significant backlash for noting, at the very end, that he had written his entire critique solely based off of the first eight or so minutes of the film. While it was not the first […]
Video Game Review – Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Red Stewart reviews Alba: A Wildlife Adventure for PC (Steam)… There’s something about animal photography that strongly stirs me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up reading nature catalogues, flipping through page after page of colorful creatures beautifully captured by some talented photographer. Ads for Zoo Books enchanted me, EyeWitness encyclopedias were checked out from the […]
Video Game Review – Bouncer Story
Red Stewart reviews Bouncer Story for PC (Steam)… Playing through Bouncer Story, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please, which didn’t bold well for the former. Developed by Helmi Games and published by Plug In Digital, Bouncer Story apparently seeks to take the former’s template and apply it to an urban setting. Yet in […]
Video Game Review – Evergate
Red Stewart reviews Evergate for PC (Steam)… Developed by Stone Lantern Games LLC and published by PQube Limited, Evergate is one of the best puzzle platformers I have played in a while. I know I usually begin these reviews with an extravagant introduction talking about the antiquity of a genre or a personal experience I had […]
Video Game Review – Verdant Village
Red Stewart reviews Verdant Village for PC (Steam)… Sometimes great ideas emerge from the polymorphization of smaller ones. Take two radically different franchises, such as Final Fantasy and Disney, and throw them into a mixer- now you have Kingdom Hearts. Likewise, new genres emerge from the combination of preexisting templates. One of the more interesting […]
Video Game Review – Struggling
Red Stewart reviews Struggling for PC (Steam)… Much like how Ren & Stimpy inspired an era of gross-out cartoons, I’ve always felt that Super Meat Boy and, to a greater extent, The Binding of Isaac, had a similar effect on the indie game market. Both came out within a year of each other, showcased a morbidly appealing aesthetic, had violent […]
Video Game Review – Bor
Red Stewart reviews Bor for PC (Steam)…. There’s not much to say about the platforming genre that hasn’t already been said. It’s a simple concept that opens itself up to a myriad of design features limited only by the imagination of its creators. Bor is the latest in a string of like-minded releases from the […]
Video Game Review – Dark Room
Red Stewart reviews the indie horror game Dark Room…. When I was in high school, I was determined to be the smartest person in English class. Every time we got an opportunity to do some type of creative writing exercise, I took it as my chance to come-up with something so unique and out-of-the-blue that […]
