Having conquered the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC through Steam, the deck-building, card battling Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales adventure makes its play on the Nintendo Switch. We dive into its colorful and deadly world to see if Thronebreaker has another winning hand.
Hero Must Die. Again is an unusual role-playing game where the goal is to make the most of the five days you have to live so that you can earn better and better funerals at the end. And if that sounds like a terrible concept for a game, you are probably right.
Neal went to a very uncomfortable, socially distant, masks required family gathering and noticed something weird (or more weird than the overall situation). His non-videogame playing relatives were watching virtual NASCAR races on TV. Could this herald the rise of mainstream eSports?
Puzzle games are often hit or miss these days, as there is a certain science to it that few developers know how to master. They should all take a look at Onyx Lute’s Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions, as it’s one of the very best puzzlers we have come across in years.
Neal is going a little stir crazy this week on coronavirus lockdown. He’s playing colossal role-playing games to pass the time, which sounds like a great strategy. But finding a modern RPG to match the golden titles of yesteryear is proving more challenging than locating a store that still has paper towels.
Here Be Dragons is a comical ship-based combat game set in the time of Christopher Columbus, where hapless captains battle against mermen for control of the high seas. The story is impressive, but the game falters a bit in its fundamentals.
News that a candy company is exclusively sponsoring DLC for the Final Fantasy VII remake has got The Skirmisher hot this week. Not only does this promote gamer obesity and negative stereotypes, but you need to buy multiple bars to get the reward.
Recently, a professional gamer that Neal generally respects made a comment on Twitter about how gamers should always get angry when they lose a game. Neal wanted to counter that thought this week. In games and real life, we all lose sometimes. And that’s okay.
Neal is busy playing games this week and getting ready for a big event which will be named later. But in the meantime, he’s definitely not spending his cash on microtransactions, a practice that he believes does so much more harm than good for the gaming community.
It’s not easy making a good horror survival title. But Remothered: Tormented Fathers shows that it can not only be done, but made so well that the horror aspects almost take a supporting role to the really impressive plot.
