Video Game Reviews, Articles
I was quite excited about Hidden Through Time. It’s the follow on to Hidden Folks and I thoroughly enjoyed that, but felt it left me a little bit short. After a bit of a stressful period, I was looking for…
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What is it? House of Golf is an indie mini-golf game set in the various rooms of someone’s house. It has both single player and multiplayer, and plenty of different balls to unlock and courses to play. Platform(s) Switch Pros…
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What is it? Stay is an indie, creepy, pixel art story that sees you play as an unseen man on the other side of a computer monitor. All you do is respond to the computer’s conversation, and try to help…
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What is it? Factorio is an interesting game that has you play as a person on a random planet, and all you have to do is build a base. You do it by mining resources, at first manually, then using…
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Procedural generating dungeons? Check. Tough combat? Check. Dungeon crawling? Check. Curse of the Dead Gods must be a roguelite then, as it fits into all of those categories. It’s a game that puts you in the shoes of a man…
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Normally, games advertise themselves as having tremendous length and replayability. Developers – quite rightly – want to try to persuade you that you’re getting more bang for your buck with their game at ten quid than you would at another…
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Another game on my list to complete this year is Desert Child, an indie racing game which sees you play as a penniless hoverbike rider trying to reach the upper echelons of the racing world and eventually make it from…
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What is it? Save Koch is an indie simulation game that puts you in the role of a mob boss whose life is threatened by an unknown entity. You have to talk to all of your friends, and enemies, and…
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What is it? Headliner: NoviNews is a game that puts you in charge of the main news channel for a country. You can choose to lean to the left, right or centre and your actions on the news has a…
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What is it? Shenmue III is the third in the Japanese action-adventure series that has now spanned twenty years worth of games. Kickstarted by fans, Shenmue III is a continuation of the story, picking up right where the series left…
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What is it? International Basketball Manager is an indie simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a basketball manager, attempting to lead your chosen team to glory. Platform(s) PC Pros Cons European licenses. Rubbish music. Poor sound quality….
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I try to keep the Video Game Almanac as politics-free as possible. Nobody really cares about other people’s political opinions, particularly when they’ve come to read about video games. However, that is going to be a bit challenging when I…
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This is the first year in the last six or seven that I haven’t actually bought both FIFA and the Pro Evolution games – now renamed eFootball PES for some reason. I did get FIFA 20, but after last year’s…
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With transport games, I always approach with some level of trepidation. It’s not that I think the game is going to be boring or frustrating, it’s just that I’ve had the worst luck with trains in real life, so I…
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I set myself a New Year’s Resolution to play at least thirty games on my backlog this year, not necessarily to 100% completion, but certainly to finish off the main story. The first of the games I chose was one…
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