With the continuously impressive Hylics 2 looking to come out summer of next year, I think it’s time we revisit the first in the series. Advertised as a “recreational program with light JPRG elements,” Hylics lived up to its name. You can finish it in a handful…
Beholder was released on Steam in 2016, it has now been ported to Switch along with the DLC package Blissful Sleep. You take on the role of Carl, a man living under a 1984-esque totalitarian regime. As the landlord of a job of some government flats, Carl is responsible for monitoring the…
Mittelborg: City of Mages is an interesting game recently released on Steam early access. It bills itself as a rogue-like strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of mages and demons and features a branching story filled with difficult choices and dark consequences. In…
GIGABUSTER gives you control over a colourful array of hi-tech weapons, like a baseball bat and some fire! This is the only thing standing in the way of a large conglomerate replacing the world’s government with AI. You play as Lou, the inventor of said AI….
Treasure Hunter Simulator is a game which managed to be surprising in a few different ways. Firstly it’s use of the term ‘simulator‘, isn’t just a sly ploy to get noticed on the Steam release charts. Treasure Hunter Simulator is actually a simulation of what…
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a vast landscape absorbed in chaos, dread, and desperate survivalism. The game is fundamentally designed around violence as the answer to all of the player’s problems, demanding they lay waste to any and all in their path marked red on…
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is the latest in a long line of games which all seem to feature anthropomorphic potatoes for some reason. Each of the games in the series have featured different settings and themes but they’ve all been casual simulation games. This…
Beyond Blue is the latest game from the publisher behind the ground-breaking Never Alone. It’s a game that invites players to be a part of a research mission in the uncharted ocean, placing exploration and experience of the deep unknown at the heart of gameplay. However, it…
The very basis of a platformer is predicated on a player’s determination. “Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” is the defining instance of the genre’s inherent notion of insisting on progression in the face of adversity. Without an end goal, however…
The digital board game Armello features a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters vying for the throne of their medieval fantasy kingdom. Though it took Australian developer League of Geeks several years to release the final product, they have continued to expand on it. They’ve added…
Once known as the “defender of the downtrodden” when it came to indie games, it appears that Valve wants to try and compete with Sony and Microsoft for AAA developers. In an announcement made late last week, the company laid out a revenue sharing plan…
Nintendo is unquestionably the most popular video game company in the world. The Switch is more popular than racism, YouTube is swarming with twenty to thirty-something year old white men making hundreds of Nintendo retrospective videos, and Mario’s got a great butt. With that kind…
Funding for Indie Games on Kickstarter isn’t what it was. That’s why it’s so impressive when a game finds an audience so quickly that it smashes all of its targets. OMNO is one of those games. Originally seeking £28,407, OMNO has raised over £70,000 and surpassed…
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure and playable fairytale that dwells on the frailty of nature. Developers Mojiken Studio just recently pushed out a demo featuring the first chapter and finally lets us get a look at the game aside from its…
Distress is one of the best games of 2018. Almost no one has said a word about it. The visual novel from Game Informer Associate Editor Javy Gwaltney deserves to be on your radar, though. With eye-catching art from Ian Higginbotham and burbly synth rock…
Nidhogg 2 is another in what is becoming a long line of very good indie games that are arriving on the Nintendo Switch. There are so many arriving every day that the really good titles can sometimes feel as though they are being drowned out….