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Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Indie Games
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Phogs! Smoke and Sacrifice! Unforeseen Incidents! Dead Cells! Regular Human Basketball! Metamorphosis! Hipster Cafe Simulator! Hyper Sentinel! Roll up, roll up to see the best indie games on offer at Rezzed 2018!
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The video game Dandara is full of symbolism and strange references – but what does it all mean? I asked the developers, Long Hat House, about the thinking behind their metroidvania masterpiece.
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Who can resist the allure of becoming a gun-toting, hookshot-wielding space pirate? The Switch port of Flinthook might be the best yet, simply because you can take it with you everywhere.
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What if you could go back and change the past? Last Day of June is an intriguing game all about reclaiming a lost love, and fixing what went wrong.
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Dandara is a challenging metroidvania title with a Brazilian twist – and the title character has a very unique way of getting about. No simple walking for this lady.
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The Long Reach is an excellently written game in the vein of point and click adventures of old. But thankfully the days of pixel hunting are long past.
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The Steam hit has crossed over to the Switch – and it’s lost none of it’s charm. Look out, the floor is lava!
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Don’t let the cutesy looks put you off – this game provides an ingenious challenge. And the Switch version has a few very welcome improvements.
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The Trail from Peter Molyneux’s company 22cans has crossed over onto Nintendo Switch. But it’s still a mobile phone game at heart.
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Forma.8 was recently given away on PS Plus, and this metroidvania-but-with-spaceships has quickly become a firm favourite in The Manor.
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Now available in a funky new physical edition, meet the game that took on Super Metroid and, in many ways, made it even better.
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The first SteamWorld game is finally available for Switch – could this be the best version yet?
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This week: when Mario released a CD album, a tribute to Runic Games, Terry Cavanagh’s bizarre new game, Mass Effect Andromeda redemption and a beat ’em up with no attacks.
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When the best are busy, are these 88 heroes enough to keep YOU busy?
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Beloved indie game Retro City Rampage is getting a fancy retail edition for its Switch launch, published by Vblank Entertainment themselves. The collector’s edition comes with a keychain, soundtrack, manual, 3D glasses and game cartridge. But best of all, the cover is reversible, the other side revealing a funky Master System inspired design. Pre-orders go…
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What ho, chums! Well, what a wonderful week I’ve had. I downloaded Affordable Space Adventures for the Wii U on Saturday, and it has proved to be an instant hit in the Merriweather household, with even the normally video-game-reticent Ms. D singing its praises. The game is one of those rare beasts – a Wii…
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Little Inferno launched alongside the Wii U, but I only picked it up recently in a sale – and what a fantastic little game it is. It’s the sort of thing I imagine Tim Burton would make if he ever turned his attention from films to video games. Conceptually, it’s defiantly odd. You’re presented with…
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I’ll be honest, I think that pixel-perfect recreations of retro game experiences is a bit played out. In Super Meat Boy it was cool, but seemingly hundreds of indie games and Shovel Knight later, it was a bit old. I was there too, and it was a great time, but I think it’s time to…
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The first 12 months of the Xbox 360’s life were a bit touch and go. Hardware failures and a market that wasn’t really in the mood for the shift into a new generation plagued Microsoft well into the life of its shiny new jet-engine of a console. Add to that a software drought and being…
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The video game industry is an amazing microcosm of capitalism. Businesses rise and fall. They invest, research, innovate and create, all with a view to make a few extra dollars and more importantly compete in the marketplace. Publishers and investors are speculators in the industry merely looking to put their chips on a winning number. …
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Hotline Miami (PS Vita, PS3) – Hotline Miami is like a drug-enduced high that will take you on a trip through the violence, white suits and craziness of a brutal 1980’s Miami that will leave your eyes blood-shot, your sense heightened and your mind warped and twisted. Bloody, bright and brutal, Hotline Miami is a loving homage to 80’s…
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