This is one that came at me out of nowhere. If you asked me before playing Glass Masquerade if the world of video games needed a jigsaw puzzle sim, I would have smacked you in the face. Video games are an active participation s...
I always find the Bullet Hell genre a little difficult to review, not least because a lot of the games are fairly short, and they all seem to follow a very similar pattern of play. There are a number of waves of enemies, a ton ...
It’s been a few years since the real heyday of the roguelike genre, but games of this type are still releasing, often with their own unique take on the formula. Blacksea Odyssey is one of the more recent examples of this, and b...
The Aquatic Adventures of the Last Human sounds like the title of a 1950’s pulp science-fiction novel, and aesthetically at least, this description isn’t too wide of the mark. In the introductory cutscene, we are shown a spaces...
Albert and Otto is a game with a unique setting, but with a less than unique presentation. Taking place in Germany in 1939, Albert and Otto plays and feels like Limbo, but rarely reaches the heights of that esteemed classic. Yo...
All I knew about The Coma: Recut going into it was that it was a Korean survival horror game. Other than that description, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I definitely did not expect to play a 2d side-scrolling teen drama b...
Horror is an interesting genre, no matter the medium in which it is depicted. Jump scares, of course, can have an affect on anyone, as they’re essentially a physical reaction. Longer-lasting effects though, such as psychologica...
The phenomenon known as ‘uncanny valley’ is an event where an artificially created figure or image bears a near enough resemblance to an actual human, without quite achieving full similarity, that it creates a sense of unease i...
As I’ve mentioned before, we live in the age of developers recreating their pasts. This phenomenon can have both positive and negative effects. On the bright side of the equation, old genres are having life breathed into ...