Grasshopper Manufacture; they have a reputation for being quite hit or miss, but it’s hard to ignore their impact on video games through the decades. The Kings and Queens of quirk, Suda51 and his merry band, are ready to take on the world once again with Romeo is a Dead Man. Do You Bite Your […]
A Simple Life with My Unobtrusive Girl is an adult roguelite roleplaying game made by the indie development team NLCH and published under Saikey Studios. The story follows the son of an alchemist and his efforts to traverse the Abyss in search of a cure for his adopted little sister’s illness. It features fully detailed […]
The remake train of Dragon Quest just doesn’t seem to be slowing down. While we still wait for the next new numbered installment of the series, remakes of the Erdrick trilogy have been keeping us occupied for the past few years. Now, we’re skipping ahead a whopping four games for our next remake, the rather […]
It’s the start of the new year, and evil looms. The undead walk the streets, and you’re trapped in a European village in the latest game from a horror franchise. The door to nightmares has swung open. This is…Ebola Village. You Never Truly Escape Ebola Village stars Maria, who lives in the most evil of […]
Just what is family? Ren’ai 0 Kilometer explores this idea using the absurd premise of two neighboring families temporarily trading members. Kyouichi from the all-male Yazaki family is sent to join the all-female Kinomoto family, while Sayuka is sent in return to the Yazaki home. How will Kyouichi handle his childhood friends suddenly becoming his […]
Forestia ~Farm Life in the Country~ (also known as Little Lilicia, Forestia ~Life on a Small Town Farm~, and Forestia ~Chiisana Machi no Bokujou Life~) is an indie farming simulator game with some dating simulator gameplay. Similar to titles like Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley, it includes a mix of growing crops, taking care […]
Utawarerumono: ZAN is a 3D hack-and-slash Musou-style anime action game, originally released in 2018 by Aquaplus in collaboration with Tamsoft. It tells a heavily abridged version of Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception’s story, following the same overall plotline but with a heavier emphasis on fights due to the shift in genres. The game was initially released […]
The latest of Nihon Falcom’s Trails series to be localized is finally here! The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon (Eiyuu Densetsu: Kai no Kiseki) is the third Trails title of the Calvard arc of the games. This title seeks to build towards a bigger, grander chapter that’s been coming together over the previous […]
Yuri fans will be well acquainted with the idea of love blossoming within the walled garden of a girls’ school with young ladies from the upper crust. Fragile Feelings offers us a different take on this setting, with a slow burn romance between an anxious young assistant teacher and the glamorous school nurse. Fragile Feelings […]
After the not-quite conclusion of the Trails of Cold Steel arc, Nihon Falcom put forth one final game in the Erebonia saga to tie up some loose ends before finally moving forward with the next arc of their long-running Trails JRPG series. The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie serves as a sort of sequel-slash-bridge […]