A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Indie Games
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Hollow Knight is one of the best Metroidvania games I’ve ever played, and a remarkable result for a first-time developer.
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This spiritual successor to the venerable Wonder Boy series manages to massively improve on the games that inspired it.
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Goose sock puppets! A fuzzy goose T-shirt! Untitled Goose Game has got some seriously lovely merch.
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Twisted Pixel’s Xbox Live Arcade classic gets a new lease of life on Nintendo Switch.
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A celebration of the Game Boy in glorious monochrome.
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The long-awaited Steel Rats is finally here, chainsaw wheels and vertical driving fully intact. But does it live up to its promise?
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A stunning Zelda-like top-down RPG is storming its Kickstarter goals.
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It’s like Stardew Valley, but with more highly suspicious meat products of dubious provenance.
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TowerFall makes it to the Switch with all of the content from the previous two games, as well as some cracking multiplayer options.
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The conclusion of Stoic’s Banner Saga is breathtaking – and also difficult to write about without dropping spoilers.
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The cult PC game Sunless Sea finally makes its way onto the PS4 with its Zubmariner DLC intact. Time to dive into the chilling waters of the Unterzee…
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The Gardens Between is bloomin’ marvellous. Buy it now!
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A minimalist puzzle game that’s perfect for playing on the subway. Or bus. Or plane. Or train. Or…
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Chasm is a beautiful pixel-art Metroidvania with a dizzying array of enemies to fight.
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You know how people are saying Iconoclasts is one of the best games this year? Yeah, about that…
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Yep, it’s a duck-based, film noir Punch-Out. Holy quack!
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It’s Space Invaders! Again! But even though Super Destronaut DX throws in a few innovations, there’s not much to hold your attention for long.
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This Rogue-like Metroidvania is rock hard but thoroughly enjoyable. Reanimated corpses have never been so much fun.
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Four fantastic Metroidvania games are being released this month: Dead Cells, Chasm, Death’s Gambit and Guacamelee 2.
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It’s hockey crossed with Zelda and a dash of Street Fighter II – and it’s a lot of fun with a friend.
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The excellent dungeon crawler Moonlighter is getting a ton of free updates – and there are also rumblings about an incoming Switch version.
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Moonlighter is a dungeon crawler mashed up with a retail game – and it’s utterly fantastic.
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The crazy thing is that this beautiful game is being made in a garden shed by two completely self-taught developers.
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The Banner Saga 2 improves on the battles of the previous game, but like the first one, it’s really all about the story.
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Pode is a co-op Nintendo Switch game with a cutesy looks but fiendishly difficult puzzles. And you can hold hands. Awww.
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Comedy stick-figure RPG West of Loathing has made its way over to Switch, with all the funny walks and googly-eyed horses intact. And it’s a absolute beaut.
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Stoic’s beautifully written Nordic saga has finally found its way over to Switch, and the storytelling is as electric as ever.
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An intriguing, narrative-driven puzzler, Lake Ridden harks back to the heyday of Myst as protagonist Marie searches for her lost sister.
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The ghost of your dad is badgering you to lug his coffin to a suitable burial spot. Welcome to one of the Switch’s most unusual and brilliant platformers.
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The Fall has been out for a while, but this eerie tale of an AI spacesuit on a desperate quest to save its ailing occupant has now found its way to Nintendo Switch. And it’s still really good.
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You’ve got a bike with a chainsaw wheel and a city full of robots to mow down. Steel Rats is stupid and wonderful, and it’s coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4 later this year.
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This beautiful ‘micro-RPG’ from One Bit Beyond may look cute, but it holds a fearsome challenge. If your character dies, they’re gone for forever – and you lose almost everything.
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