A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Review
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Jotun has arrived on Nintendo Switch – so now you can slay beautifully hand-drawn Norse gods on the bus. Praise Odin the All-father!
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Three brothers set off in a boat to find adventure – and every 30-minute playthrough is entirely different. Yep, it’s a charming Choose Your Own Folk-Tale Adventure.
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This golf-like puzzler for PS4, Switch and Vita is entertaining, but it feels out of place on the big screen.
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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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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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The first EA Original from indie studio Zoink is a magical forest adventure with a heavy emphasis on exploring and discovering things by yourself. And purple.
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A charming storybook adventure that’s sure to set heart strings a-twanging.
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A beautiful aquatic adventure freshly released from Early Access – and all the better for years of improvements.
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The first SteamWorld game is finally available for Switch – could this be the best version yet?
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A retro-themed roguelite with a large amount of content? Yes, please.
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What happens when you mix a roguelite with a dungeon crawler and stir in some pixel art graphics?
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Can you survive the deadly galaxy of Super Hydorah?
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Does Outcast – Second Contact breathe new life into a cult classic or was this game better off left in the 90’s?
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My completely opposite thoughts on Woofenstein II
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Grim Dawn or Grim YAWN?
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The closest you’ll come to finding out what it’s like to be a giant robot…for now.
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A Metroidvania all about magnets and creepy towers, with some surprisingly dark storylines.
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Help, my hands are trapped inside a strange mechanical box and I can only get free if you click here now!
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Could this be the game to cleanse the palate of the disappointing taste of EVE: Valkyrie, or will it make my space madness even worse?
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Click here for a free game!
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Sonic returns in a warfare-themed 3D game that let’s players create their own avatar for the first time.
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Telltale’s latest, but is it the greatest, or is it the lamest?
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Super Metroid and a roguelike had a secret love child and just left it on your porch
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Definitely the best arthritis/ulcer simulator I’ve ever played.
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A bizarre action-adventure title from the ancient past, with a surprisingly small amount of shooting and an even more surprising amount of lite-RPG elements
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Is this hand-drawn adventure-platformer worth searching for, or should it just be left to die in the woods?
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In space, no one can hear you apologize for accidentally firing your Gigaton Blast downwards and wiping out one of the cities you’re supposed to be protecting.
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Halloween is upon us, and Bonbon is the perfect game to get you in the mood. A toddler, a 1980s house and a giant monster – what could possibly go wrong?
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Just in time for Halloween, it’s The Evil Within 2! Will this sequel have you changing your pants or changing the channel? Find out…WITHIN!
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Observer is the latest game from Bloober Team, creators of the excellent horror game Layers of Fear. Layers of Fear would probably be best described as an extended tour through a heavily scripted, but very well-produced haunted house. It had amazing atmosphere, but very little interactivity, and was a very short experience. Still, it was a very enjoyable experience and…
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