This week Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill examines Frigato: Shadows of the Caribbean which is currently in Early Access on Steam. In Frigato, players are the captain of a motley crew of sea rogues who are trying to beat the British Royal Navy to the Caribbean’s most valuable treasure.
Dave the Diver is an RPG about a guy named Dave who splits his time between exploring the ocean’s depths and trying to run his seaside sushi restaurant and bar. Both the ocean exploration and restaurant management parts of Dave the Diver support each other and makes the whole title a true delight.
Killer Frequency is an incredibly unique horror puzzle adventure. It uses a first-person interface, but instead of pelting players with jump scares or waves of monsters, it challenges them to try and save desperate people who call into a late-night radio show looking to escape a deadly serial killer stalking a small town.
Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill hits the mean streets of Rough Justice 84, a title that challenges players to run a rough and tumble detective agency in the 1980s. There is big hair, shoulder pads, IBM PC computers, flashy cars, neon lights and more crime than you can shake a cassette tape at this week.
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.
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.
Wanted Dead is an action title that is marketed based on its over-the-top violence and combat, but it actually has a lot more to offer action RPGers including a detailed open world, impressive graphics, plenty of side quests and other things to discover.
Hinterland Studio has split their frosty The Long Dark game into two parts, the story-focused Wintermute missions and the open world survival portion. Signal Void is the first major update to the new Tales From the Far Territory survival mode, and adds new tasks, locations and narrative content.
