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…
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…
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…
Clutchpoints’ Jesseyriche Cortez would get their hands dirty with a shovel, staking their claim in the pixel-art alien wilds, but why do that when you can have an army of robots at your beck and call instead? They enjoyed their time with Nova Lands, the base builder with interstellar exploration Read more…
Nintendo Life’s Alana Hagues highlights the upcoming release of 30XX, the sequel to Batterystaple Games’ mega-roguelite platformer 20XX which has been enjoyed by 4 million users worldwide, launching on Nintendo Switch August 9, 2023, and leaving Steam Early Access on PC the same day. Developer Batterystaple Games calls 30XX a Read more…
Elie Gould at Tech Radar highlights the upcoming release date of WORLD OF HORROR, the unsettling cosmic horror retro RPG from developer panstasz and publisher Ysbryd Games, launching just in time for Halloween on October 19, 2023, across PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4|5 consoles! Set in a small seaside Read more…
VG247 highlights the Mac launch of Death Stranding Director’s Cut, Hideo Kojima’s definitive vision of his critically-acclaimed and genre-defying epic from developer Hideo Kojima and publisher 505 Games. Since Hideo Kojima bought his first Mac in 1994, he has become a “die-hard” Apple fan afterward. Therefore he is thrilled to Read more…