Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle adventure title that has players building many different stories using pieces that represent backgrounds, characters and plot points. It offers interesting puzzle-solving gameplay that should appeal to anyone who enjoys a good tale and puzzle adventures.
Dungeons and Dragons has traditionally been played mostly in the minds of its players and dungeon masters. Meanwhile, the Dragonlance campaign realm was created for more tactical combat opportunities, and the Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn Board Game doubles down on that.
This week, Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill is investigating the strange and horrific happenings in the complete edition of Perseverance, a visual novel told through the eyes of multiple characters trying to survive the pending zombie apocalypse.
Coming from the developers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, one can probably expect lots of intense post-apocalyptic storytelling and challenging turn-based combat in the newly released Miasma Chronicles. And they would be right. The new title takes the same basic format and improves on it in almost every way.
Fueled Up is one of those rare titles that encourages couch co-op play as you and your hapless crew of friends try and keep your damaged spaceship flying. You will need to overcome countless in-flight emergencies and also keep one step ahead of an evil space octopus.
This week Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill covers a title that lets players follow the story of a newly created creature of the night in Twice Reborn: A Vampire Visual Novel. Twice Reborn includes adult themes and tough choices, and it might be perfect for fans of the vampire genre or anyone who enjoys well-written visual novels.
Sunday Gold is an extremely interesting title in that it combines elements that normally don’t go well together like point and click adventures, puzzling minigames, RPG character building and even turn-based combat. And yet, somehow, it all works in this stylish thriller.
Gollum is arguably one of the most important characters in the Lord of the Rings saga, and the prospect of having a title centered around him was an amazing idea. Unfortunately, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is riddled with game-breaking bugs, dull gameplay and a host of other problems that sap all the fun.
This week Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill felt like breaking something, and Ship Graveyard Simulator fit that bill nicely, tasking players to smash up decommissioned ships for fun and profit. Ship Graveyard Simulator has players dismantling ships, selling materials to vendors, hiring workers and more.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most epic RPGs to be released for the Nintendo Switch since the console’s creation, and with all of the innovation and smooth gameplay that Nintendo packed into Tears of the Kingdom, it could prove to be one of the best RPGs of all time.
