Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill is a LEGO fanatic who always has a few unfinished LEGO projects scattered around her office. So, she was very happy with LEGO Bricktales, which ditches the traditional action LEGO RPG format for one that focuses on building and creativity.
People pretty much love dinosaurs, which is why a movie series like Jurassic Park has spawned so many sequels. But it’s rare when we get to see life from a dinosaur’s perspective. That is how the new Path of Titans MMO works, with players starting out their dinosaur characters as eggs and growing them into monstrous thunder lizards – if they survive that long.
Can a friendship simulator be a horror game? No way… Unless? Well, Feardemic knows all about horror, and they say yes. They know that the biggest horror of all is how you all love playing with your buddies at home, but you can’t always bring them along with you on crazy adventures like touching grass or doing a grocery run. Fortunately, though, they say, science has finally blessed us with a remedy. Feardemic is bringing Buddy Simulator 1984 to Nintendo Switch this Halloween, and you shouldn’t miss this one. Just read the very positive reviews the PC version received on … Continue reading Feardemic’s Buddy Simulator 1984 Horror Game on Switch Will Be Released in Time for Halloween
At its heart, Jade Order is a puzzler where players need to figure out how to best clear a board of bad guys as they fight the Ashen Plague through the ruins of a scorched land. You do this in tactical combat, which makes Jade Order both fast-paced and exciting.
In this week’s Fresh Look column, Michelle Sayatovich is diving into something truly unique in the gaming world, a massively multiplayer title called Path of Titans where you get to play as a dinosaur. Her full review is coming soon, but in her column she shares helpful information on the unique mechanics that this interesting MMO offers.
It’s creeping ever closer to Halloween, so we are ramping up our coverage of games with a spooky twist. The Darkest Tales falls into that category perfectly as a Metroid-like hack-and-slasher title featuring dark takes on popular fairy tales and a teddy bear hero with attitude.
Marie Brownhill, our Modern Gamer columnist, continues to look at spooky and seasonal titles. This week, she dives into the Lovecraft inspired madness of Last Threshold, a visual novel that has a soundtrack driven atmosphere and is dripping in hand-painted haunting backgrounds.
A terrible dental crisis has had our Save State columnist, Vincent Mahoney, having a hell of a week, so he decided to lean into that theme and play Hades to take his mind off things. What he finds there is a beautiful platformer that not only plays well on his PC, but also works perfectly on the Steam Deck for those who may or may not be temporarily bedridden.
Square Enix announced that turn-based tactical role-playing game, TRIANGLE STRATEGY is out now on PC (via STEAM). Previously released on Nintendo Switch in March 2022, TRIANGLE STRATEGY is an exciting HD-2D tactical RPG from the award-winning development team behind OCTOPATH TRAVELER, and BRAVELY DEFAULT, featuring a strategic turn-based battle system, deep branching story and arduous moral choices. TRIANGLE STRATEGY takes place on the continent of Norzelia, where players will determine the fate of three powerful kingdoms embroiled in conflict, Glenbrook, Aesfrost, and Hyzante. Set 30 years after the “Saltiron War,” players will guide protagonist Serenoa Wolffort and his faithful companions, … Continue reading Epic Nintendo Switch Triangle Strategy RPG Moves to PC via Steam
Winter Games 2023 from Wild River Games is available now in North America for PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch and on November 11 for Playstation 4 and Playstation 5. Developed by Independent Arts based in Hamm, Germany and published by Wild River Games, Winter Games 2023 offers players a wonderland of winter sports and activities ahead of the winter season. Winter sports fans can hit the virtual snow from home and compete on slopes all over the world. Winter Games 2023 includes ten well-known winter sports disciplines from ski jumping to Biathlon to Skeleton, in an exciting and action-packed sports … Continue reading Winter Games 2023 Launches For North America
