Review by Matt C. Flood of Light is one of the most beautiful games I’ve played in a long time. Set in a future where endless rain has flooded the world and wiped out humanity, it paints a vision of an oddly calming dystopia: the rain beats down on the…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Semblance is easily one of the most innovative puzzle platformers I’ve had the pleasure of playing. In such a crowded genre, that’s a big deal indeed. It’s is also one of the most stylish games I’ve seen in a long time, and is yet more proof…
Read MoreNews by Matt C. It’s easy to get jaded about E3’s obsession with violence, guns, blood, and gore—a trend that continues into 2018. Luckily, we have adorable games like Ooblets to balance things out, with a new trailer during the PC Gaming Show putting a spotlight on the game’s dance-based…
Read MoreBy Matt C. I’ve spent literal hours agonising how to approach this review, because Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation: Time After Time is a game that defies description. On one level, it’s a surreal comedy reminiscent of light novels and anime like FLCL, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Eromanga Sensei (indeed,…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. You might be easily fooled into thinking a game looking like Solo would draw inspiration from Wind Waker, but Team Gotham’s narrative puzzler has much more up its sleeve. Promising to take players on an introspective journey to find the meaning of love, the game pulls…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game about stories and storytelling. Set amid the Great Depression, it looks at how stories grow and evolve over time: how a sweet but relatively mundane tale of long-lost siblings reuniting can morph into a myth about spirits…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Yuri visual novels seem to be gaining popularity in the West, and that’s a wonderful thing. A good yuri romance will take you to places that no other game can, putting fresh perspectives on familiar ideas. SeaBed, a kinetic novel by Paleontology and Fruitbat Factory, is…
Read MoreIt’s almost that time of year! Game awards are upon us, and of course DDNet has our take on that as well! We give you a bit of a preview of what to expect from the awards this year, as well as some of the others that are happening. We…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. When she ran away from home, Regina just wanted a chance to prove her independence—to her overbearing father, to her strict older brother, and, most of all, to herself. She gets more than she bargained for, though, when she finds herself mysteriously transported to a strange…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Imagine a survival game, but instead of a frozen tundra or an isolated forest, the unforgiving wasteland is a city drowning in the cruelty of late capitalism. That, in a nutshell, is Always Sometimes Monsters: a game about surviving poverty and desperation in a world where…
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