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Dead Cells is the kind of game that really wants to kick your ass. “Kill, die, learn, repeat” has been the game’s mantra ever since its very first days in Steam’s Early Access.
A white hall stretches out before me, filled with sharp red figures. With nothing but a few small statues and vases, I set to work. I take a step and strike the first, fatally, three times before grab...
My first time in Seoul, I decided to meet up with a curious character, who went by the name Wildcat. At one point he was making a 2D, pixel-based, proprietary engine fighting game, entirely by himself...
Hooo boy, Devil Daggers. Devil Daggers. My longest gameplay session in Devil Daggers is eighty-six seconds long. From what I can tell, this is a pretty OK score.
You’re all alone on a huge spaceship. You’ve got a modular gun, some parts, and a station to put it together on. Standing between you and the self-destruct button is a horde of drones, turrets, and ot...
The Shrouded Isle is a “cult village management simulator.” That’s the tagline for the game on the website. You manage a village of cultists. Imagine a visual novel about ancient gods with a si...
If you’re a gamer, it’s likely that you’ve played custom levels. But have you ever tried making one yourself? Making custom content is a challenge, especially for the uninitiated. For puzzle games, le...
If Conarium can claim anything, it can claim that it’s accurate to the HP Lovecraft Experience. It’s got accurate Elder Things! References to mythology and the occult! Language patterns and foibles dr...
Speaking alongside fellow Bungie alumnus Marty O’Donnell in a recent interview with Playboy, veteran Halo and Destiny designer Jaime Griesemer says many large studios suffer fro...
A quick note first: I feel very differently about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild than the site’s official review by Willie Clark, which I nevertheless enjoyed reading. Dissenting voi...
Imagine slowly drifting back into consciousness, faint red light flooding your closed eyelids. As you come to, you gradually realize you have no recollection of how you ended up in this place. In fact...
“If you’re trying to make a really accessible game,” Joni Kittaka laughs, “then action platformer with walljumping is really not what you should do.”
Fitting most indie games into a clean and tidy category or genre is usually an exercise in futility. Many indie studios make evocative, surprising, and entirely unique experiences that you just can’t...
“We were slightly caught off guard with the massive success of the game,” says Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of Colossal Order. Cities: Skylines was one of the biggest games of the year, an a out-...
Hatoful Boyfriend is a game with an absurd premise and a big heart. It’s a bird dating simulator, but the story addresses death, guilt, and sacrifice. And while the puns and outrageous situat...
The MMO genre has seen dramatic changes and shifts over the years. When I take a look at the half-dozen or so MMOs that I currently have installed on my harddrive, the options are nearly endless. I co...
Every year when I was a kid, my mom would buy me a new “I Spy” book, with pages filled with photographs of cluttered item search puzzles. Find five pins or find 10 owls. We would settle in my bed afte...
Project X Zone 2 is a mess in theory. It’s crossover strategy game featuring characters from Capcom, Namco, Sega, and Nintendo that exists almost entirely as a vehicle for jokes that make up...
