Category: Articles and Reviews
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Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 – Review
Remember how Star Wars had its kids animated shows in Clone Wars and Rebels? And how they eventually evolved into a core part of the franchise with quality storytelling, popular with fans of all ages? Well, Star Trek Prodigy has pulled that off in only two seasons. The CG animation and kiddy characters and humour…
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Sunlight Scream – Review
Sunlight Scream is a visual novel developed by indie creator Faithy Games, a predominantly one-man studio based out of Russia. Taking inspiration from the likes of R. L. Stein’s Goosebumps series and the Scream franchise, we follow Max Hardy as he returns to his hometown of Sunlight City to reconnect with his remaining family. However,…
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Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure – Review
Welcome to Iknonei Island, a calming farming sim, Brought to you by Snowcastle Games, the creators of the cute but challenging RPG, Earthlock, that you can easily sink hours into.
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An Early Access look at Starmetal Crusaders
We don’t often get such an early look at a game so when the chance came I jumped on board to check out Starmetal Crusaders. Looking at the store page Starmetal Crusaders (SMC) promised a blend of third-person shooter and RTS, immediately recalling memories of Double Fine’s Brutal Legend. That game has its detractors not…
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Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye
Most people think of VR games as either gimmick-driven or involving leaping around your living room like Tigger with a blindfold. Retropolis 2 is one of the third type: a classically “flat” genre game that has been elevated by dropping it into VR. With the number of escape room-like VR games, I guess point and…
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A Tactical Future – Capes – Review
It’s probably bad form to start a review by directly comparing it to another game, but remember how people wanted Marvel Midnight Suns to be X-com with superpowers but were disappointed by random card pulls and small arenas? Well, Capes is here to save the day in a tactical turn-based combat with a team of…
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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End – Anime Review
A human Hero, a human Priest, a dwarf Axe Master, an elf Mage and a journey to save the world from the Demon King. Sounds pretty cliché right? But what happens after that?
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Simulated Space Chaos – Space Docker VR – Review
My PSVR2 may not be covered in dust, but my PlayStation HOTAS certainly was until I discovered Space Docker VR. It has been out a while but still provides a unique experience on PSVR2—space flight, complete with Newtonian laws of physics.
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Relic Odyssey: Ruins of Xantao – Review
Relic Odyssey: Ruins of Xantao is a semi-roguelike, semi-survival, semi-dungeon crawler game in early access on Steam from new indie developer Honour Bound Games.