It’s a great time in gaming for feel-good Armageddon scenarios. The Cede Kickstarter launched recently, giving green-thumbed gamers the chance to bring beautiful blooms to a gloomy doomsday. Now, with the gorgeously cell-shaded Flotsam, catastrophic floods have never looked quite so inviting. Let’s dive in, shall…
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Nic Reuben likes to pause games every five minutes to ponder the thematic implications of explosive barrel placement. When he's not having an existential crisis over CAPTCHA verifications that ask him to prove he's not a robot, he's reading sci-fi and fantasy short stories, watching cartoons, and mourning the writing standards in Game of Thrones.
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I visited Croatia, where Saint Kotor is set, earlier this year. Saw some castles. Met some people. Drunk some beer. It was nice. I didn’t take part in any stygian rituals to resurrect eldritch monstrosities. Nor did I howl at any gibbous moons from twisted…
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Post-apocalyptic worlds are gloomy places. I understand everything you’ve ever loved has been reduced to a puddle of goo, but maybe if you spent more time repairing society and a bit less moaning about the mutants chewing your face off, you might feel better. There’s…
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“And if anyone was worried, yes, there will be white doves in the game.” That’s Anders Flodihn, co-founder of Vreski Games, referring to legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo’s avian calling card. If the recent trailer is anything to go by, The Hong Kong…
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Aquaponics Life is an upcoming marine-life management sim in which you swim your way to the top of the urban fish and plant trade. It comes from Maulidan Games, creators of the soon to be released Lobster Empire, amongst others. Maulidan Games have stated a…
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The Japanese concept of Kawaii derives from the phrase kao hayushi, which roughly translates as ‘face aglow’. Blushing, rosy cheeks might not be something typically associated with animated spirits of the dead, but that hasn’t stopped Lost Alloy dreaming up a bizarre world caught somewhere between…
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There really aren’t enough indie fantasy games that let you play as a total bastard. Ok, so there’s Antihero, where you play a morally bankrupt thief with no regard for human life, and Darkest Dungeon, where you play a morally bankrupt noble with no regard…
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Games and mythology have long had a close relationship. Alive with betrayal, magic, gods and heroes as they are, there’s a lot to draw from. For everyone who ever decried society’s media as proof of its moral collapse, a quick browse through Homer’s Odyssey or…
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If Roy Batty had watched those C-beams glitter by the Tannhäuser Gate through eyes hastily scrapped together from old Sega Genesis parts, his dying memories might have looked something like Massive Galaxy. Aspiring to chart the visual territory claimed by DOS adventure games like Maniac…
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