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Nic Reuben

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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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Upon starting the demo to RPG2 Heaven’s Nightkeep, you’ll be treated a short story sequence introducing you to its world. A vainglorious monarch becomes obsessed with immortality, descends into madness, and causes an unspeakable evil to descend on the kingdom. Several hundred years in the…

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“Dad, Look! They’re here!” My team of mechs beamed down from orbit. The local populace were understandably overjoyed. When your hometown is under assault by a legion of bugs as big as buildings, there’s few sights prettier than a trio of heavily armed war machines….

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Pyre is a storybook with singed edges; stained by spilt ink and filled with blank pages. A pastel-hued cartographer’s fever dream. The feedback from a smoky lute ballad run through a distortion pedal. Most astoundingly, Pyre is a sports game that makes loss just as…

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Developer MoaCube describe Bonfire as a game that ‘respects your time but hates your guts’. It’s certainly an attention grabber, but I feel MoaCube might be underselling it here. While teeth-gritting trial and error is the Roguelike’s razor-tipped calling card, nothing in Bonfire’s difficulty feels…

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Developer Shotgun with Glitters describe The Padre as “a corrupted fairytale set in the 1910’s”. While a smattering of literary horror influences can be dredged up from The Padre‘s darkest corners, my time spent with the Alpha demo was less a ghost story, more a…