Kaze and the Wild Masks manages to hit a decent balance between old-school, nostalgia-driven platforming, and controls that feel more in-line with modern gaming. The developer Vox Game Studio claims to have combined their favourite childhood games to make the game, and the signs of…
William Worrall
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W. S. Worrall is a free-lance writer and video producer who lives in the UK. He has an extensive collection of retro consoles and board games and in his spare time he solders stuff together to see if it works. It usually doesn't.
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Kenshi is a game that has been in development for over a decade, and has both scale and detail to match. The strategy RPG is so deep and complex, that it can take over 40 hours to simply understand how the game works. Wow. That…
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The holiday season is supposed to be a time for relaxing. A time of year when people get time off to spend with family, friends and generally kick back and relax. Truly a chance to repair the mental damage that the rest of the year…
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Nogalious is a game that touts itself as a revival of classic 8-bit personal computer platformers. There is more than a grain of truth to that statement, but it doesn’t stop it being a frankly awful idea, even for people who’re still into 8-bit micro-computer…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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With the 2018 Christmas season upon us it’s time to wrap ourselves up warm, pour a hot cup of…something, and sit back with a few indie gems. In this case when we say indie gems we actually refer to some truly awesome lumps of indie…
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There are plenty of games out there with overt Christmas themes, as some of our December content will have indicated. Sometimes games that are perfect for the Holiday season miss out on the limelight because they don’t quite wear their Christmassy nature on their sleeves….
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There are very few games out there that deal with Christmas, at least few good games. In truth there are lots of reason for this, the fact that it’s a season that barely lasts a month, the fact that no-one wants to put a bunch…
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Adventure Games have been a big fixture of the indie scene for over a decade and a half now, but things didn’t start out that way. Back when they were first invented in the late 70s and early 80s they were mainstream through-and-through. If you’ve…
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Hello and welcome to the final part in our History of Indie Games. Over the past 6 weeks we have examined the long and complex history of indie games and their journey from bedroom obscurity to mainstream titans. This week on our final excursion we’ll…
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Hello and welcome once again to the history of indie games. Last time we were examining the preliminary explosion in indie gaming that laid the ground work for the larger market. This week we’re finally getting a good look at the big reasons behind the…
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Still looking for more frights in your witching season? Well we enjoyed making the last list that we thought we’d take another crack at it to see if we couldn’t make the lightning surrounding the creepy haunted mansion strike twice. The Forest The Forest is…
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We return once again to jump feet first into the history of indie games and get ourselves soaked with information in the process. Last week we talked about the early 2000’s and the impact they had on the future of this burgeoning industry, but now…
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The witching season is upon us and so it is time to celebrate the darker side of our grass roots industry. Now, in no particular order, let’s take a look at the best options to scare yourself silly during the coming Halloween festivities. Outlast 1…