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.
Mosaic takes you into a world that is at once alien and painfully familiar. Not your typical puzzle game, it makes a statement on modern life that most can probably relate to. Brave the grey new world and give Mosaic a try.
Delve into the dark world of the Russian nightclub and drug scene in the interactive thriller She Sees Red. This is an interactive movie with deeply adult themes. If you are up for a challenge, and are not to squeamish, then She Sees Red is ready for you.
It’s been 22 years since most of us have set foot in Half-Life’s secret Black Mesa facility. Now the developers at Crowbar Collective have reopened the lab in Black Mesa Xen, a perfectly recreated Half-Life experience loaded up with plenty of modern extras.
It’s rare when we get a brand new type of puzzle title, but that is what developer Skookum Arts has done with their wonderfully fresh game, The Pedestrian. You are tasked with helping the famous stick figure from those ubiquitous informational signs get safely across some challenging environments.
This week, our Modern Gamer gets repeatedly blown up playing Tank Maniacs. But it’s all in good fun, especially when the art style and gameplay for this single or multiplayer tank battler is so smooth. As a bonus, she plugs in a new Steam controller to her PC. See how that goes!
The Knights and Bikes adventure game perfectly captures what it’s like to be a child with its whimsical blend of fantasy and reality overshadowing a more serious plot being dealt with by the adult characters in this masterpiece of a game.
Williams Pinball: Volume 5 features three classic tables from the golden age of arcades. All are faithfully reproduced with beautiful graphics and accurate ball and gameplay physics. Tables in this volume include Tales of the Arabian Nights, Cirqus Voltaire and No Good Gofers.
Starting life as a console game, the dark and creepy Limbo branched out and is now available for just about every possible gaming platform. If you are looking for a thoughtful and scary puzzle platformer, Limbo is almost heaven.
Rebel Cops attempts to take the combat elements of the This is the Police games and make it the main focus of a cops versus bad guys tactical battler. It’s an interesting game, but perhaps a little too stripped down in this era of XCOM and other more polished turn based combat titles.
