Eurogamer contributor Geoffrey Bunting bookmarks the rising popularity of visual novels like Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, the sequel to the 2020 heart-to-heart talking sim played by millions from developer Toge Productions, and Varney Lake, the second visual novel in a series inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction Read more…
Destructoid’s Zoey Handley puts on a spacesuit and ventures into Jumplight Odyssey. The roguelite colony sim inspired by genre staples and classic 70s sci-fi anime from Armello developer League of Geeks is now available to check out on PC via Steam Early Access! Jumplight Odyssey bases itself on ‘80s sci-fi anime and Read more…
The essence of retro-styled platformers is here to stay as highlighted by Liv Ngan of GamesRadar+ for the v1.0 release of 30XX, the sequel to Batterystaple Games’ mega-roguelite platformer 20XX which has been enjoyed by 4 million users. Metroidvania lovers can play the game right now on Steam and Nintendo Read more…
Armed with swords, shurikens, cybernetics, and a bullet-dodging slide, IGN’s Wesley Yin-Poole is ready to slash up the opposition in Ghostrunner 2. Sign-ups to participate in the closed beta test for the first-person cyberpunk-action thriller from global publisher 505 Games and developer One More Level are open now. And this time, Read more…
Game Informer’s Brian Shea revisits a childhood classic during his PAX West 2023 preview of Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland, a retro-inspired, puzzle-platforming adventure developed by Wallride Games and published by The Mix Games. Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland was a big surprise announcement, but I was also pleasantly surprised by how Read more…
TouchArcade’s Mikhail Madnani drives onto fresh maps with new updates in Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, the award-winning minimalist strategy traffic management sim with more than four million players from developer Dinosaur Polo Club, available on Mac and PC via Steam, iOS, and Nintendo Switch now, along with Android for Read more…
Screen Rant‘s Deven McClure gets space-boots on the ground with a preview of One Lonely Outpost, the sci-fi farming sim set on a barren alien planet from Freedom Games, now available on PC via Steam Early Access. The world is filled with artifacts like data logs and fossils that provide Read more…
Noisy Pixel’s Azario Lopez previews the sweet shooter mania that is TEVI, the next fantastical bullet hell metroidvania from best-selling Rabi-Ribi developer CreSpirit and publisher Neverland Entertainment, making its way to PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch first in Q3 2023, and later onto PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series Read more…
Bleeding Cool‘s Gavin Sheehan highlights the release date of Frank and Drake, the rotoscoped branching narrative adventure developed by Appnormals — the award-winning creators of STAY — and published by Chorus Worldwide (Coffee Talk series, A Space for the Unbound), out now on PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Read more…
Multiplayer.it’s Giulia Martino closes the chapter on another great 2023 title with a review of The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales, the gripping narrative adventure from creators of the indie hit The Final Station, DO MY BEST, and publisher tinyBuild, available now on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG, Read more…