I’ve been out of the mobile gaming circuit for a bit, mostly because of the Nintendo Switch. I’ve recently started yearning for something to play on my phone, but nothing I find quite scratches that itch I have. I’m quite hopeful for care sim plus RPG game Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago, and have actually been wondering about it every…
Cults and sinning seem to go hand in hand. Sure, some of them claim to follow the bible – but they also tend to make up rules that work for them rather than actually interpret and understand what is obviously in front of them. Cult of the Lamb is freaking…
Xbox has been pushing action RPG (with social sim elements) Dungeons of…
For the past few days, PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab has been sharing…
Asmodee Digital is best known for its board game adaptations (including the rather good Gloomhaven, and classics like Ticket to Ride, Terraforming Mars, and Carcassonne). The publisher is looking to push into related-but-different spaces, however, which makes the RPG a natural stepping stone for it. Enter Dark Envoy, a guns…
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River City Saga is one of the more enduring “Double Dragon”-like brawler properties, and while that genre has had its peaks and troughs, it is enjoying a renaissance right now. River City Saga is back for some more with a Three Kingdoms edition that looks amazing. Yes, we are talking…
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I am becoming thoroughly sick and tired of developers taking a popular IP of some kind, and reaming it into a hole where it just doesn’t fit. Vampire: The Masquerade is a storytelling-orientated horror-fantasy RPG. It always has been. I haven’t kept up with more recent editions of the game,…
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Hooray for good news! Utawarerumono is back, with Aquaplus announcing that Monochome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten will be getting a global release. This game was developed to celebrate 20 years of Utawarerumono, which has become almost the defining definition of “cult hit” among JRPGs. Related reading: Our review of…
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I really like Dune: Spice Wars. I’ve been playing the Early Access build of the game for two weeks now, and the best way I can frame it is that it’s what I would have expected if the Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth games had continued being…
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PQube is a publisher with a knack for finding quirky and interesting projects. Its latest, Super Bullet Break, might just be one of its most interesting. This “deck-building roguelike,” features a lot of super-cute anime girls, and draws inspiration from everything from rhythm games and dating games right through to…
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Once upon a time, before BioWare announced itself to the world with Baldur’s Gate, and long before Atari got the rights to Dungeons & Dragons and then all but buried the iconic property (in terms of video games, at least), there was a company called SSI. SSI was perhaps better…
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German publisher, Toplitz, and developer, Superkami Games, has shared the first “CGI trailer” of the upcoming city-building simulation, Sengoku Dynasty, and it looks like it could be something truly special. What is most comforting to me, however, is the great pains that Superkami Games seem to have gone to so…
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Picture the scene, if you will. Socrates approaches the Lyceum, deep in thought. His disciples gather around him, and he poses this question: What’s a Greek Urn? The answer is, of course, about five drachmas an hour, and that’s a very old joke. Probably not quite as old as Socrates…
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