It’s Mech week here at GiN where we are celebrating reviews of new games featuring those lovable, lumbering, stories-tall giant robots of destruction. First up is Mech Armada, a rogue-like title where mechs battle with the Swarm.
Are you fabulous with flour? Yearning for yeast? Do your cupcakes always come out ready for a food magazine? Then you might be ready to tackle Bakery Simulator, a game about baking bread and earning it too. Just be ready to get a little hungry when you play.
Tokyo is overrun by deadly supernatural forces in this unique and combat-heavy adventure game. Figure out why all the people disappeared. Dive into dark Japanese mythology. Pet wandering Shiba Inu dogs and more in this spooky adventure.
Light-Years From Home by skilled author Michaelbrent Collings may be the perfect title for young readers who love sci-fi. The book features teens that get abducted by aliens and then must work together to survive that unexpected trip.
Fabled Lands takes the classic adventure stories written by authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson and puts them into a video game where you can explore almost anywhere and role-play however you wish with no physical dice required.
Our Modern Gamer may not be too good at platformers, but even she really enjoyed the beauty and gameplay found in Sephonie. If you have any interest at all in platforming games or puzzles, then don’t miss out on giving this charming indie game a go.
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin might take longtime Final Fantasy players by surprise. It combines the deep lore of the series with the fast and frantic combat that developer Team Ninja is known for, putting them together in a really fun and exciting game.
For fans of old school survival horror, like we used to get on the PlayStation 2, Tormented Souls is a blissful throwback to that time and genre, and exactly what we want in a modern take on classic survival horror.
Created by Oh, a Rock! Studios, the same studio that brought us the crazy Too Many Santas dating simulation, The Lost Oregon City Gold keeps that wackiness going with a puzzle-heavy adventure game that provides quite a heaping helping of family fun.
Citizen Sleeper presents players with a sci-fi world where they exist on the bottom rungs of society. Far from a hero archetype, your main concern as the player in this game will be finding enough work so that you don’t starve, and maybe doing a little bit of good along the way.
