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.
Electronauts can best be described as a virtual reality DJ simulation experience. If that doesn’t immediately spark your interest I don’t know what will. Unlike most rhythm games where you hit certain notes and avoid obstacles to complete a song, receive a high score and move on to the next song -Electronauts puts you in complete control. You are not just playing a song to completion, you’re helping to create it.
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.
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.
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!?
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.
