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
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
A lot of the messaging around Denshattack! has gone to some effort to align the game with a lot of iconic 2000s extreme sports titles, throwing around hooks like “Tony Hawk with trains,” but it also bears a lot of comparison to the Jet Set Radio games. Not only in the obvious ways, like its
If I’m ever asked for recommendations for great VR games, which sadly happen less and less lately, it’s never long before the Moss games are brought up. Starting life on the PlayStation VR but quickly spreading to other platforms along with a sequel, Moss’s dioramic world, expressive protagonist and unique split between first and third-hand
D-topia imagines a world where humanity has long since hit its lowest lows, the kind required to prompt a bold new direction for the future. That new direction is the Utopia Project, created to bring “The greatest happiness to the greatest number of people” by leveraging AI, genetic engineering, synthetic environments and social algorithms, and
