Cola may not be healthy but it sure is delicious! So what do you do when aliens drain the world’s cola reserves, leaving only diet behind? If your answer is embark on a wild rampage of destruction full of bullets, bombs, and blasting beats, Soda Crisis from Team Soda and bilibili might be just the […]
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Salt and Sacrifice – Review | The Fun Never Ends
Salt and Sacrifice is the latest release from two-person development team, Ska Studios. It’s easy to think of Salt and Sacrifice as an out-and-out sequel to 2016’s Salt and Sanctuary. However, it is far more like a successor, an entry in the same franchise but standalone in many important ways. Whilst this iteration does stay true to the 2D, […]
A Taste of the Past – Review | Dumplings Seasoned With Tears
Released as a free game for PC on 11 March 2022, Sondering Studio’s A Taste of the Past is a narrative side-scroller with cooking mini-games that brings players on a poignant and introspective adventure. Follow the protagonist on a 30-minute journey that is pickled in bittersweet memories and simmering under the gentle fire of familial love lasting […]
World’s End Club – Review | An Uninspired Experience
As someone who was (and still is) a huge fan of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series, it was really exciting to read that both of the directors, Kotaro Uchikoshi and Kazutaka Kodaka, teamed together to deliver a new game in World’s End Club. There is definitely a void to be filled after the departure of Danganronpa and […]
30XX – Review | MegaFans Unite
The future is often seen in the media as a mysterious and barren thing. Rather than settling on exact years, liberal use of the letter X has become commonplace. 20XX took gamers by storm a few years back and the only way to really show this is a sequel would be to jump forward to […]
Evan’s Remains – Review | A Beautiful Story
Introduction When it comes to playing games, one of the best kind of story-driven experiences are the ones that take you on an emotional roller coaster and make you feel a certain way. Evan’s Remains accomplishes just that. Developed by Maitan69, who’s based in Argentina, Evan’s Remains is a mystery-thriller puzzle game with only one objective: find […]
Dead or School – Review | Anime Femme Fatale
Introduction I’d describe Dead or School as a RPG hack-and-slash with a sprinkling of brawler. Not exactly your conventional one either. Fan-Service reigns supreme. I’ll be up front, I saw a screen shot and thought it was from a hentai. It’s also what sold me. I never felt that it went overboard or was needlessly […]
Neko Ghost, Jump! – Preview
Neko Ghost, Jump! has a rather self-explanatory title: you’re a cat, you jump and you become a ghost. Well, obviously that’s not the entirety of the game, but it is well over half of it, alongside other mechanics, visual style and story. This game is currently being developed by Burgos Games and is available on […]
Die for Valhalla – Review
Die for Valhalla has some RPG aspects, but at the heart, it’s a is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up. I personally played on the Nintendo Switch, but it can be found on the PC, PS4 and Xbox One in addition. As well as the regular mode, there is a second mode which adds in some […]