It would be understandable if the first thing you thought of when looking at Rehtona (which is Another backwards..get it?) was last year’s indie hit Celeste. Pixel art graphics, a female protagonist and platforming? That sure sounds familiar. Well, in reality Rehtona is essentially the polar opposite in every other way. Instead of breakneck, twitch-based … Continue reading
Why is it so difficult to make a game adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s works? The 2005 release Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is probably the best adaptation to date of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. And while games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Eternal Darkness use the themes of Lovecraft to … Continue reading
The Forza Horizon series has been a personal favorite racing game series for a number of years. The original showed that Forza, which was traditionally simulation style racing, could do arcade style racing just as well. Forza Horizon 2, was far more ambitious, using a larger open world. Horizon 3 had largely perfected the racing … Continue reading
From the name alone, you can probably figure out what Graveyard Keeper is about – you are the keeper of a graveyard and everything that entails. You collect bodies, bury bodies, decorate graves and even “collect” various goods from the bodies for use in other parts of your business. If you think this means it’s a sad … Continue reading
The first State of Decay, released back in 2013, was a title that, while it had a good deal of problems, offered a compelling world and unique gameplay elements. State of Decay 2, for better or worse, can essentially be described exactly the same way. It doubles down on the things that made the original fun … Continue reading
I’ve been ready for a good mech game for a while. So, looking at Battletech, I was excited but somewhat hesitant. It looked super complex and in a way that I normally have issues getting into. However, as I played more and more, I found that the systems, while complex, provided an incredibly satisfying and … Continue reading
Subset Games, developers of the hit FTL, just released Into the Breach, a game that is just as good, if not better than FTL. Comparisons to FTL are going to be common as from the outside the games look similar. They have similar art styles, although Into the Breach’s isometric view leads to better overall … Continue reading
One of the newer types of genres are story-rich games known as “Walking Simulators.” While I’ve said many times that I don’t like this term, it is an apt description for something like The Station. In it you play the part of investigator, looking into a research station gone dark, in orbit surrounding a mysterious … Continue reading
When The Fall released in 2014, there were few games that had attempted to handle the concept of artificial intelligence seeking self realization. The idea of an AI eventually achieving consciousness by subverting its own rules was a novel one and certainly made the game memorable. Four years later, The Fall Part 2: Unbound seeks … Continue reading
In my original review of the first episode of Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy series, I called out the game for feeling like it was “stuck somewhere between trying to be like the movie and trying to be its own thing.” Now that the five-episode season has come to end, the game is a lot … Continue reading
The original Hand of Fate was a fantastic concept that failed when it got to executing the concepts. The idea of having randomized encounters laid out in a card game style, while using Arkham-style combat worked decent enough, but ultimately everything felt repetitive. While Hand of Fate 2 changes many of the encounters, it often … Continue reading
ELEX is definitely something unique. An open-world game, with multiple completely distinctive settings and tribes to interact with. There can be trolls, mechs and dinosaurs, all in the same area, providing something truly different. It’s also a technical disaster that will appeal to a hardcore crowd, but few else. ELEX takes place on the planet of … Continue reading
If you’ve ever watched any of the dozens of reality cooking shows on TV, you know that life in the kitchen is fast-paced, complicated and stressful. Cook, Serve, Delicious! aims to recreate that feeling of running a restaurant, which is both difficult and strangely addictive. The sequel offers a significantly different experience by placing you … Continue reading
The year 2010 was definitely a good year for gaming. Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas (the best 3D Fallout game), and several others helped to define the year. It was also the year that Cuphead began development. Throughout the years, we’ve seen Cuphead in various stages and now, after seven years, … Continue reading
Procedurally generated games are definitely one of the more popular trends, and for good reason. Often featuring roguelite elements, they provide seemingly endless replayability and often offer additional challenges such as speed run modes, daily seed leaderboards and more. Songbringer attempts to bring procedural generation to the classic gameplay style of The Legend of Zelda. … Continue reading
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