Though only the second game to date from Compulsion Games, We Happy Few proves one thing about the studio – they know how to create a captivating world to explore. The studio’s follow up to 2013’s Contrast is an incredibly ambitious title that has grown leaps and bounds since it first hit Early Access nearly two years ago. Their ambition growth as a team paid off in some ways and in other ways they seemed to miss the mark.
Madden ’18 was a return to form for a series that was in desperate need of a fresh start. It’s easy to dismiss games that have yearly iterations as more of the same but, with ’18, not only did they make major improvements to the gameplay and overall fun factor – they added a single player story campaign for the first time with the incredibly popular Longshot mode. Madden ’19 takes everything that was good about ’18 and improves on it in almost every way and even brings back Longshot for season two, making this the best Madden game of the generation.
Unexplored takes the game’s name very seriously. As a challenging Roguelike action RPG, no two runs will ever be the same which literally means that every time you jump back into the game you are charting unexplored territory. As you go along your adventure you will explore dangerous dungeons, forge magical items, solve mysterious puzzles’ and battle hundreds of foes. All the while’ you’ll be trying to steal the Amulet of Yendor from a terrifying dragon and attempt to make it out alive.
After entering Steam Early Access back in May 2017, Dead Cells has been a highly anticipated indie title from Motion Twin. With numerous roguelike games on the market, Dead Cells sets itself apart by incorporating elements from metroidvania and soulslike 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.
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.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit opens with a shot of a snow filled yard and a lonely house. As the opening bars of Sufjan Steven’s song Death With Dignity begin to play, you immediately get the feeling that even though you haven’t been here before – something is familiar. This is Life is Strange.
Like the previous seasons, Captain Spirit captures the essence of what makes a Life is Strange game unique and then takes that formula and makes it feel fresh again. While the marketing for the game has been a little misleading, make no mistake, this is the prologue to Life is Strange 2.
Paranautical Activity is an old school shooter with a new school twist. While it may look like your average shooter from the 90s the roguelike procedural dungeon generation keeps the game fresh playthrough after playthrough. After receiving an initial somewhat controversial release on PC, Digerati Distribution is once again reviving the game – this time on the Switch.
