Goodbye grid, hello freedom! Mind Over Mushroom takes tactical battles and ditches the grid structure for a more challenging fight, letting you wander as you battle spore-controlled foes. Players will have to mind their distance, as you’re free of grid restraints and able to wander freely (barring terrain obstacles, of course). Be mindful of your […]
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Build Ridiculous Machines And Fight For Air Superiority In ‘Airships: Conquer The Skies’
There is something incredibly satisfying about Airships: Conquer the Skies’ basic concept. Build giant floating Steampunk fortresses and then watch them take flight and shoot the hell out of each other. This mainly works because of the game’s core tenet: simplicity. Assembling an airship is easy. You choose from a generously long list of different […]
Graveyard Keeper Adds a Darkly Humorous Twist To The Village Simulator Genre
At a glance, you might confuse Graveyard Keeper with similar games like Stardew Valley and others. That’s part of the game’s charm though; in many ways, Graveyard Keeper relies on the familiarity with the elements of those games to makes its morbid twist of said elements work. Because in this simulator/RPG, you aren’t lovingly tending […]
Become Death’s Servant In This Ruthless, Challenging Action RPG
Those who enjoy the Souls series are currently in need of a fresh set of bosses to test their patience and skills against, but action RPG Death’s Gambit aims to fill that void. With fast-paced but precise combat, gigantic bosses with unique tactics, stunning pixel art, a mysterious story, and a killer soundtrack, the game […]
Monsters Make For Good Friends (But Mostly Foes) In ‘Koikoi’
Shin’s dad went out to go to work, but hasn’t come back yet, forcing the boy to head out into the world of Koikoi. In it, humans have died out from a strange disease and been replaced by the monstrous, surreal, and sometimes friendly Newmans, so who knows what kind of trouble the boy’s dad […]
Help Hurt Hopp Delivers Hectic Three-Way Platforming
Daniel Linssen’s library is one packed with quirky games and concepts, often ones that play with the form and functionn of familiar genres. In the vein of the border-manipulating vampire-hunting puzzler Windowframe to the multi-game platformer HopSlide, his latest is Help Hurt Hopp, a three-player precision platformer where one player tries to leap through a […]
‘Helping Hand’ Is About Eloquently Expressing Yourself With A Finger
Helping Hand is about suing your fingers to communicate, and while you can say a whole lot with a single finger, this title asks you to say a whole lot more than that, bringing all your digits in to help. After all, how well do certain one-finger gestures translate to alien beings? Best learn to […]
Regular Human Basketball Is A Quirky Robot-Controlling Version Of A Certain Sport
Regular Human Basketball is a sports game recreating a popular American sport, involving players throwing or dunking a ball into a hoop to score points. Also, the players are giant mechs controlled by drivers inside their robotic innards. Just your typical sports game. Reminiscent of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime or the recent Far: Lone […]
Wadjet Eye Games’ ‘Unavowed’ Spins A Near-Perfect Urban Fantasy Yarn
Dave Gilbert’s Blackwell games have been some of my favorite point & click adventures for years. Good stories, likeable protagonists, a distinct sense of place, and that trademark Wadjet Eye style had me anticipating each new episode like Christmas. I was certain that Gilbert’s games couldn’t get any better, that he had “found his voice” […]
Shattered’s Bird Hero Dispels Evil With A Magical Bell
In the platforming, puzzling adventure of Shattered, an adorable blue bird seeks answers about nightmare creatures and missing siblings. You’ll be tasked with searching for the bird’s brother across some beautiful landscapes and vanquishing some terrifying creatures using your magical bell. While venturing out to look for his brother, a little blue bird finds himself […]
