Academia: School Simulator’s Steam page suggests you can make the high school of your dreams. But my school, Leo’s Learning Emporium ended up as more of a dystopian nightmare. You can see how my school got on in the video above. Academia: School Simulator is available now in early access on Steam.
miniLAW: Ministry of Law’s cyberpunk aesthetic of pay phones, pagers, robotic-suited cops, along with the underpinnings of a totalistic police system make it an intriguing game. It’s also the closest thing to a modern Robocop game we’re going to get. It doesn’t have the biting satire of Robocop but it does have a seeping dread.…
Wrestling Revolution 3D may not have the best graphics, animation, gameplay, or anything, you could call it a bit of a mess, but it undoubtedly holds true to the spirit of indie wrestling. MDickie has been making unique games for well over a decade and what they lack in polish they more than make up…
I had a chance to check out an early alpha build of 2D stealth game Wildfire. It may not have a release date yet, but from what I’ve played it’s looking promising. Wildfire is game where you control elements such as fire and earth to cause distractions (and often lots of localized bush fires). It’s…
Old Man’s Journey is a gentle storybook like adventure through an elderly man’s scattered memories as he walks his way to an inevitably sad conclusion. It’s a short game, only taking a couple of hours to finish. But it’s worth the journey, not just for the hand-crafted world, but for its earnest, poignant story. They…
I never thought I’d feel intense fanboy-ism for a bottle of ketchup and yet here we are. Remember, brands are not your friends. Wish to tweet words at me? I can be found here @laserfrog
Polygons, sprites, they’re good and all, but Late Shift has real people* punching other real people in the face. Welcome to the wonderful world of Full Motion Video. I just love FMV games, they’re often silly, goofy, daft fun, especially when they’re attempting to be completely serious. Back in the mid 90s it was just…
Pixel art can often feel nostalgic, hearkening back to those bygone days of cathode ray tube monitors and floppy disks. It’s easy to think of modern pixel art as stuck in the past, a mere retro inspired throwback. But that’s giving the form a disservice. There’s more to pixel art than pure nostalgia, as I…
Many cheap retro controllers look the part, but fall down when it comes down to build quality. Thankfully the iBuffalo classic USB gamepad doesn’t succumb to these issues. It feels every bit as good as an original Super Nintendo pad does. The nice thing is it’ll run on just about anything: Windows, Macs, Raspberry Pis,…
Lucius is a sad-looking little boy. He’s also the spawn of Satan. The original Lucius pretty much followed the plot for The Omen: you’re the son of Satan, now go and kill everybody in your house one by one. Think Hitman, but as an evil demonic kid. Despite being somewhat fun, it felt very restrictive…
4PM came out a while ago, but I only discovered this strange oddity recently. All you need to know is there’s a horrible man in the game called Keith. Keith is a jerk. Keith is your boss. 4PM is one of those narrative game…things. It’s extremely short, and abrasive, with events happening out of sequence.…
Besiege is a devilishly simple, physics-based building game. You can create machines of destruction with ease. For a game in Alpha, it’s surprising how polished Besiege feels. I was creating absurd death machines within a few of minutes. Sure, some of them weren’t exactly structurally sound, often resulting in a horrid crumpled mess, but the…
Now that Grim Fandango has a remastered edition, what better time to sit back, relax, and solve a few puzzles with Manny Calavera? I have to say, replaying Grim Fandango brings back some warm and fuzzy memories. Save for the fancy new visual upgrade and far better controls, the game has overall not changed much.…
I thought naming my company HyperLeoCorp would save it from any wrongdoing. Video game development simulator Mad Games Tycoon proved otherwise. As an early access game on Steam, Mad Games Tycoon isn’t finished. But even at this stage there’s plenty to get wrong. I mean, I still managed to put my own company into ruin,…
Look, I’m not a professional dinosaur hunter by any means. But instinctively I need to shoot them in the face. theHunter: Primal gives me the perfect opportunity to do so. But tracking down dinosaurs is easier said than done. Would I find them? Spoilers: Yes I would. You can see how I got on in…
Over Christmas and New Years I spent time catching up on games I’d missed throughout the year. But there was one game I became totally engrossed with: Dungeonmans Dungeonmans is a proper roguelike, the kind filled with turned-based fighting, scrolls and horrible death. But each death isn’t so bad, as loot you bring back to…
The Viking Conquest DLC adds everybody’s favourite Nordic seafarers to Mount & Blade: Warband. But with it brings something I wasn’t expecting: demonic man-children. Seriously, the in-game children are just scaled down adults. Something about that scares me to my very core. It doesn’t stop my character Garry Viking though. Despite Garry having the Viking-iest…
Never crowdsource an article. Look, don’t do it. Is it a good idea? No.
You start up a game. Before you can make it to a start screen or main menu you’re barraged by a series of loud swooshy logos and copyright text you don’t read. This is the modern hell of video games in which we live. I’ve never really paid all that much attention to opening game…
The Deer God doesn’t hold your hand, or tell you what to do. It can be a struggle, but it’s all worth it when you’re shooting fire out your antlers. Part of this is due to being an early access game on Steam. It’s unfinished, incomplete. But that’s where the intrigue lies. With no tutorials,…
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