Talking to anyone about The Persistence is sure to almost always include comparisons to games like Resident Evil 7 and Dead Space, though it’s easy to see how these comparisons exist The Persistence is really doing something completely different. With Sci-Fi. Horror and Rogue-Like characteristics all rolled into one neat little package it’s hard to make any real direct comparisons to any of these games.
The video game industry is still relatively young and as we see it grow we continue to find new ways to play games. What started as two lines hitting a dot back and forth has matured into a medium where we can not only have a lot of fun, but can now be used to tell important stories as well. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is one of those stories. Based on historical events that transpired in Tehran in 1978, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday shows us that Hollywood isn’t the only industry that can tell a compelling historical story.
The first time I heard anything about Arvore’s title Pixel Ripped 1989, I thought it was one of the weakest concepts for a virtual reality game I had ever heard. I was wrong.
Digerati has been doing a great job at bringing hidden PC gems to current gen consoles lately and Frost is no exception. Frost plays out like a more flushed out version of the recent physical card game Oregon trail. Fans of deck building and solo survival games will find a lot to love here.
The Path of Motus puts players in to the shoes of Motus, a young and adventurous troll who sets out to explore what lies beyond his village. Despite warnings from his father and neighbors about the dangers of the surrounding forest, Motus pushes onward to conquer both physical and mental challenges that so many have told him are insurmountable.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a self-described bullet hell, rogue like, first person shooter where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses and defeat an alien armada that conquered earth. What in the actual hell isn’t there to love about that!?
Mastermind Studios clearly had a vision for their first title Agony, a grimy, gory and nasty view of Hell unlike anything you’ve ever seen. On this front, Agony is a success. Each frame and set piece moment from this game exudes its bloody and disturbing art style to a tee. Unfortunately, art style only goes so far and nearly every other aspect of Agony is poor. The gameplay is frustrating and never feels rewarding, partly due to its slew of bugs and glitches.
Blacksea Odyssey is a quirky twin stick/top down shooter hybrid with RPG elements thrown in for good measure. As if that wasn’t enough to offer at least a little intrigue, it even offers rogue-like, or more commonly known as rogue-light, elements as well.
Red Faction Guerrilla was released nearly a decade ago and over time the game received cult like recognition. It isn’t easy to do what Volition did when they released the game in the summer of 2009. They took an established first-person shooter and completed scrapped it in favor of a third person open-world game. While we may never know how well received a Red Faction 3 would have been had it followed in the footsteps of its predecessors, we do know that Guerrilla is still kicking after all these years despite more roadblocks than you can imagine.
Getting lost in a dark and dingy parking lot can be stressful enough. Add in flesh eating zombies and psychedelic drug trips, and you’re in for one hell of a ride.
