A Plague Tale: Innocence and its sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, put the name of Asobo Studio is many more mouths and minds than had been before. These were wonderfully-told stories about family, sacrifice and free will in the form of stealth-forward adventures, and were also uniquely covered in rats. Thousands of the things. Resonance: […]
I did complete it though, because I am committed to the work. As Kieron discussed in their preview some weeks back, Star Wars: Zero Company is a turn-based tactics game that takes place as the Clone Wars are in full swing. It’s a brilliant idea, and centering that framework upon a band of mercenaries trying
Although the studio skimmed the surface of it with the detective adventure prequel, The Sinking City 2 sees Ukrainian developer Frogwares dive fully into survival horror territory with its Lovecraft-inspired world. A sequel in name, it’s a completely standalone entry that doesn’t require playing the previous entry – mercifully, for me, as I never got
In case you weren’t aware, Japan has its own AFL association, with numerous teams that play both locally and at the international level. I know this because while watching the FIFA World Cup final at a random Irish bar in Tokyo last month I got to talking to someone from the city’s own team, the
Cloverpit is a well-received participant recent glut of gambling/casino-style roguelikes, games that are – for the most part – created and enjoyed in good faith, but do still operate on the same psychological patterns and traps that real gambling exploits. It’s also one of the few that does so with a firmly critical lens on
Big Walk, the long-awaited latest game from Untitled Goose Game developer House House, has finally arrived for PS5, Switch 2 and PC, and early reviews are already positioning it as one of the year’s best multiplayer video games, if not one of the year’s best video games period. As it currently stands, the game is currently
PowerWash Simulator, and now it’s sequel, have honed in on a winning formula of giving players already-compelling games of calm and cathartic cleaning action in completely original maps, and then extending their lifespans with licensed DLC from some shit-hot franchises. Having already taken us to Adventure Time‘s Land of Ooo, Powerwash Simulator 2 heads to
Right from the front-end experience, Cultic presents itself as the quintessential 90s FPS with little threatening to get between you and the action. Aside from a gracious helping of settings to tweak, including a welcome spread of accessibility-minded options, you’re only a short few seconds from being in control of a grizzled detective, known simply
