Category: Reviews
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Fragments: A Mind-Bending Exploration Of Guilt – PC Review
I’m often looking for interesting games with captivating narratives. Games like What Remains of Edith Finch and Dear Esther have always fascinated me. Their movie-like narratives interweaved cleverly with the interactivity that video games allow. Fragments is no exception, offering the player a short, but incredibly enticing and gripping narrative that’ll make you question everything.…
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Academia School Simulator: Beautiful, Fun, Heartless – PC Review
I can’t sleep. I’m sat in my living room, the world outside smothered in frost, locked away inside yet again. It feels as if the world is determined to keep us isolated, a lonely, floating island, the waves sloshing at our feet, a reminder of the barrier between us and others. So I’m sleeplessly stuck…
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Magellania: Clownishly Brilliant – PC Review
It used to be that every so often while scrolling through Steam’s “New Releases” tab, I’d happen across a new game that piques my interest. Unfortunately, it has become so rare these days that I had all but given up on finding something unique. Just as I was ready to abandon all hope of finding…
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All Walls Must Fall: A Tech-Noir Tactics Game – Switch Review
All Walls Must Fall feels like a game with unbridled potential. Its futuristic dystopia is filled with the usual neon-soaked clubs, pounding techno music, and dreary, drug-fuelled inhabitants. But it’s gameplay mechanics, use of time manipulation, gorgeous combination of 2D models and 3D environments, and detailed locations, in theory, should offer an ambitious, action-packed, joyride…
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Sarawak: Truly A Masterpiece – PC Review
I haven’t read in a while. Something about 2020 made me stop reading novels. Even though we had this painfully long lockdown where I literally had nothing but time on my hands, I didn’t read a word. My dusty old bookshelf, with its reams of yellowing, crinkled, weathered books weighing heavy on its creaking shelves,…
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Shot in the Dark PC Review: Simplicity at its Finest
Everyone has some experience with side-scrolling shooters. Maybe you’re an OG, and you remember putting the Konami Code into Contra because it’s ridiculously hard. But I guarantee you’ve never played side scroller like Shot in the Dark, and it’s imperative that you do. You play as the Lone Bandit out to collect a bounty. You…
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Goop Loop: An Sisyphusian Exercise In Patience – PC Review
In ancient Greek mythology, there is a tale of a man named Sisyphus. Once the king of Corinth, he was condemned by Zeus to roll a boulder up the depths of Hades as a punishment for cheating death. He would move the boulder all the way up to the very precipice of the hill, sweat…
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Yaga: An Occasionally Tedious Wonder – PC Review
In 2019, Romanian based studio Breadcrumbs Interactive released Yaga, a game that sought to switch up the action-RPG-roguelike genre with a little Slavic folklore flair. Unfortunately, up until now, the game hadn’t seen a Steam release. Now, to start 2021 off with a bang, it has finally been released, and while it can be a…
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Immortals Fenyx Rising: All-Round Good Time, Bugs Included – PC Review
Released in December 2020, Immortals Fenyx Rising came to all current-gen consoles, and from announcement to release, there wasn’t much time in between. This makes sense considering it feels like the result of gutting Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey of most of its mechanics and animations. Even with doing that, it’s still a bit of a buggy…
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Windfolk PS4 Review: Sky is Just the Beginning
Windfolk caught my attention the moment I saw the trailer. Its lavish world seemed to ooze with character as the camera swept across its colourful landscapes. Its soaring soundtrack filled me with anticipation as the protagonist flew about on her jetpack, dashing from cliff-face to cliff-face in an instant. As I waited for the game…
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Super Meat Boy Forever: A Certified Mobile Game – Switch Review
The original Super Meat Boy had me playing for hours and falling completely in love with Meat Boy. Having heard that the sequel, Super Meat Boy Forever, was originally going to be a mobile game, I was skeptical about trying it. Now, coming to Nintendo Switch, I was thrilled to try the game, but unfortunately,…
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Cyberpunk 2077: A Waste of Something Truly Remarkable – PS5 Review
After eight years of waiting and delays, Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, breaking countless records in the process. With the game being one of the most anticipated games of all time, CD Projekt Red had everyone screaming for the game to be released, and for a good reason: Cyberpunk looked like a breakthrough for…