“Yer a loose cannon, but dammit if you don’t get results.” Except those results will be worth nothing if the general public turns against your team. Welcome to the psychological noir-detective thriller, Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived. Critique Gaming casts players in the role of…
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Joanna Mueller is a lifelong gamer who used to insist on having the Super Mario Bros manual read to her as a bedtime story. Now she's reading Fortnite books to her own kiddo while finally making use of her degree to write about games as Cliqist's EIC.
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During the Xbox E3 2019 briefing, we got our first look at the upcoming Blair Witch Project tie-in game from Bloober Team. Having proved themselves with the eerily atmospheric, Layers of Fear, the team is ready to bring fans back to the forest. No Rest…
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Daymare: 1998 takes place in the charming town of Keen Sight, Idaho. Here, a partnership with Hexacore Biogenetics ensures the safety and growth of this thriving community. With most of the town’s 27,000 residents happily employed by the company, Keen Sight is an ideal 90’s…
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Following the positive response to the upcoming, indie developed, Cadence of Hyrule, Nintendo has decided to let more indie devs take a crack at their beloved franchises. Next on the chopping block, a new Super Mario game from the folks at Team Meat. Super Meat…
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Gamers have grown bored by romancing attractive, fully developed characters. They crave something new, something less conventional. The question is, where do you go after having players romance and date sentient chicken wings? The answer is, Dream Horrors. This brave new game features the art…
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In an effort to recapture the mesmerizing style of classic horror movies, Clod Studio has teamed up with Italian horror legend, Dario Argento to bring their first game, Dreadful Bond to Kickstarter. The team is seeking $68,249 in funding to bring their supernatural psychological thriller…
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If at first you don’t succeed, take out the multiplayer and try again. Such is the case for Heroes Ravage – Rise of an NPC on Kickstarter. The first campaign ended on February 19th. It failed to raise even a fraction of its $60,865 funding…
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Last summer I lamented the failure of KYE Creations’, Jaws of Extinction on Kickstarter. The project’s lead developer assured backers that despite failing to reach their funding goal the team wasn’t ready to quit. Now this promising open-world survival game is back with a new campaign and a…
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What if Quake, but with cowboys? An interesting proposition and one which developer Lunar Rooster have set out to answer. Their upcoming action FPS, Sky Noon drops players into a reimagined, Wild West styled, floating frontier. Here they will fight it out with their fellow…
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Monsters, mechs, and mayhem, oh my! It’s time once again to kick off our Game of the Month coverage and this month we’ve selected the newly released turn-based strategy juggernaut, Into the Breach. Developed by Subset Games, the team that brought us FTL, Into the…
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As February winds down, so too does our Game of the Month coverage for My Time at Portia. For an early access release, this little crowdfunded gem has kept most of us enraptured over the past few weeks. The perfect mix of cheerful life sim…
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Hopefully you’ve been keeping up with our Game of the Month coverage for My Time at Portia. This delightful sandbox crafting/life sim hit Steam Early Access late last month and has been winning fans ever since. In fact, interest in the game has grown so…
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On the surface, life in My Time at Portia seems downright idyllic. Then you discover that most of humanity was wiped out hundreds of years ago during an apocalyptic event. Suddenly, you notice the cracks appearing the town’s cheerful facade. The people of Portia have…
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign, developer Aurum Dust is almost ready to unveil their new turn-based RPG, Ash of Gods. The project combines tactical combat set against classically inspired animation to tell a story of epic proportions. After spending time with the preview build, it’s…
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From the best-selling author of The Natural: How to Effortlessly Attract the Women You Want, comes a dating sim designed for idiots. Richard La Ruina’s FMV seduction simulator, Super Seducer is coming to Steam and PS4 on March 6th. Naturally, a game that “teaches” men…
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Valentine’s Day, the most sacred day of love ever conceived of by greeting card companies. What better time to reflect on all the ways that love can really screw you over. Here are a few examples of games where love makes everything worse. Spoiler warning…
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