Video Game Reviews, Articles
To enter the grim, magical (but not in the good way) and ruthless world of Dark Souls is a daunting experience. The hype surrounding FromSoftware’s “Soulslike” games is a now-legendary and quite honestly alienating reputation that leaves no doubts as…
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What is it? Gato Roboto is an indie, two toned metroidvania game featuring a cat in a mecha suit. You have to try to make your way through a perilous alien underworld in order to help your stranded captain. Platform(s)…
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Leisure Suit Larry, a game series that no-one will ever admit to actually playing, is coming back for an eleventh entry, and the first since 2013, in Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. It’s not a series that I…
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In ‘No Pay 2 Play’, we review free video games (whether they’re riddled with microtransactions and season passes or not) and then answer the golden question: is it worth adding to your game library? Boring Stuff Developed and published by…
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What is it? Final Fantasy VIII is a JRPG released in the late 90s by Squaresoft, and re-released on Steam a few years ago. It tells the story of Squall, and his SeeDs fighting against Sorceress Ultimecia and her ultimate…
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The games industry seems to be in an era of remakes, reboots and remasters right now – so let’s go back to a time when people weren’t so confused as to what constitutes each of these things with DuckTales Remastered….
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What is it? Clam Man is an indie point and click adventure that puts you in the shoes of the recently laid off Clam Man, who has it in his head that he couldn’t have been fired for any reason…
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Very rarely do I encounter a game that’s actually difficult to describe, but Cultist Simulator is a game that defies conventional description. Released in May of 2018 and published by Humble Bundle, it describes itself as a “digital board game”…
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Byte Driver is an arcade classic from the late-seventies (well, not really – that’s just what the fictional blurb says) created by Vector Hat. The highways of the futuristic world of 1999 are plagued with self-aware cars, and it’s up…
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I missed the golden age of Metroidvania games, and due to that, have never really played too many. It’s not like I’ve avoided them, but I just have other genres that I prefer to play when I’m in my downtime,…
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Things have started going downhill, as Edd does a review of extreme cycling game Descenders.
After a long and anticipated wait, game developer veteran and conditioner aficionado John Romero has returned with a free, full-length episode for The Ultimate DOOM as a belated 25th anniversary gift to the series, albeit with a badass name: SIGIL!…
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It’s a little difficult to picture, but please try. Ten years ago, Valve used to make videogames! Crazy, I know. With all the Back 4 Blood talk on outlets, and how I’ve been into self-torture heavily as of late, I…
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The awkwardly-named Void Bastards is a cocktail mix of genres. Add a first-person shooter and stir in some roguelike elements, slip in a crafting mechanic, and top it off with an eye-catching name that looks like it was conjured up…
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Paco and Alan enjoy gaming pursuits elsewhere as Video Game Alamanac creator Edd Harding joins Lee to discuss Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired turn-based strategy RPG Fell Seal, why reviewing 1000 games in 1000 minutes isn’t insane and the finer points of…
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