The world has gone crazy. Wars and riots are everywhere. Billions are now dead. You are a child whose family has apparently disappeared, victims of the widespread violence. You are asked to go on a quest by a gentle-voiced stranger who says that, [...]
The Long Journey Home is a game of great ambition — an ambition that pulled me in before I realized the limited scope of its mechanics. If you watch a trailer for The Long Journey Home or read the description on its Steam store page, you’ll get a sense [...]
Kingsway Score: 8.0 Platform: Win Publisher: Adult Swim Games Developer: Andrew Morrish Release Date: 2017-07-18 kingsway is a fantasy RPG with a peculiar goal: transporting the player into the aesthetic and interface of computer fantasy circa 1995. That [...]
Gigantic Score: 8.0 Platform: Xbox One, Win Developer: Motiga Given its long list of influences, it would have been easy for Gigantic to feel like an also-ran — a repeat of a game we’ve played a thousand times over. Instead, developer Motiga has pulled [...]
video games allow me to inhabit exciting roles that I’m denied by the natural order of humdrum existence. In the case of Aven Colony, the promise is to run a colony on an alien planet. Frankly, unfettered power and exotic discoveries sound like my [...]
A geomagnetic anomaly has plunged the world into darkness and rendered all technology useless, including the plane you were flying over the vast, frozen wilds of Canada. You awake surrounded by flames and wreckage—badly injured and freezing to death—and [...]
Hey! Pikmin Score: 7.0 Platform: 3DS Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Arzest Corporation Release Date: 2016-07-28 Trranslating a 3D series into a 2D puzzle-platformer is a big risk, and it’s easy to imagine the result feeling like a watered-down spinoff at [...]
Pyre Score: 9.0 Platform: PS4, Win, Linux Publisher: Supergiant Games Developer: Supergiant Games Release Date: 2017-07-25 Pyre is, I feel comfortable saying, unlike anything I have ever played before. There are connections to developer Supergiant Games’ [...]
