Lucah: Born of a Dream weaves a violent, colorful, and oppressive landscape around the player with its vibrant colors and harsh, scratch-like art style, looking like its existence has been clawed into being. It speaks of pain and harm with its every move as players work through its combat, but despite all of this, calls […]
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‘Apple Quest Monsters DX’ – Creating Imaginary Worlds With Monster Descriptions
Apple Quest Monsters DX is a book of charming monsters and their descriptions, all for a game that does not exist. Not that this mattered for Splendidland, developer of Tender Caves of Death, as this look at monsters detached from a game carried that sense of discovery that came with cracking open strategy guides for […]
Japanese Folklore-Inspired ‘Rising Dusk’ Pushes Players To Ignore Coin-Collecting Instincts
Grabbing coins and hopping over cliffs is just what you do in platformers, for some reason. Rising Dusk wants you to ignore that instinct, though, as for every coin you collect, things will get a little bit more challenging throughout the game’s Japanese folklore-inspired stages. Rising Dusk takes you to a land of grinning, troublesome […]
Toss Books At Your Adorable Friends In Library
Library offers a cute experience of hanging out at the library, making use of all the books by playfully tossing them at your pals. I mean, yeah, reading those books would be good too, but there’s just something about lightly hurling tomes at these grinning, playful folks that just makes you want to keep on […]
Liminal Turns Gravity On Its Side Through Brain-Bending Spatial Puzzles
Gravitational orientation becomes your plaything in Liminal, a polished student project available on Steam that combines space-shifting doorways and a twisting sci-fi puzzle labyrinth. Liminal‘s main method of gravity manipulation lies in the relationship between “Krobs”, robotic spiders that double as keys, and space-bending doorways that let you pass through them like portals. Walking through […]
#SelfCare Is A Place Of Peaceful Escape
#SelfCare turns your phone, normally a source of near-infinite stress, into a place of serenity. Through taking you into a vision of your room and the soothing tasks contained within, it seeks to bring you to a place where you can perform calming tasks and free yourself of the shackles of your life’s demands, even […]
Build A Hectic Robotic Kitchen In Upcoming Puzzler Automachef
In this cute sci-fi puzzler, the messy hecticness of the kitchen is replaced with rhythmic hecticness of automation, as Automachef tasks you with constructing precise cuisine assembly lines. Automachef looks reminiscent of the assembly optimization of Factorio, a game that offered expansive alien worlds and resources for your manufacturing. Comparatively, Automachef‘s puzzles challenge you to […]
‘Phantom Doctrine’ Is A Fascinating And Flawed Cold War Spy Thriller
Phantom Doctrine is the cold war spy thriller of my dreams, spinning an intricate web of intrigue and conspiracy. The game has you staring at a world map, trying to unravel the increasingly complicated plot while sending your agents all over the globe, doing spy stuff in turn-based encounters. It’s a moody, highly atmospheric game […]
Yet Another Exhausting Day Is A Battle To Stay Awake
Have you ever had a day when you just couldn’t bring yourself to stand up? You just wanted to get through the day, inching like a caterpillar? Yet Another Exhausting Day encapsulates the ultimate level of tiredness, with a dash of motivation to get through the day. Players will have to help some sleepy people, […]
Baldi’s Basics Looking To Add Field Trips & Randomization To Its Educational Horrors
Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning offers intense educational action, mingling edutainment and horror as players work to collect notebooks and avoid a certain unsettling educator. However, this experience in discomforting school life is looking to get an upgrade, one that adds randomization, more complex stage designs, new characters to meet, and some (lethal-ish) field […]
