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HROT Is a Vicious, Wild Retro FPS About Surviving a Dieselpunk Czechoslovakia
I’m running from a giant, gas mask-wearing horse that leaps over small buildings, only to round a corner and be ambushed by giant ...
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Unto the End Is a Survival Adventure Where Every Single Battle Is a Deadly Game of Punch-Out!!
There are only seven enemies total in the demo for Unto the End — eight if you count the one peaceful guy you ...
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Grounded Is Thrilling as Obsidian’s Survival Adventure Take on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
What we’ve got with Obsidian Entertainment’s Grounded, the developer’s first Xbox title since being acquired by Microsoft, is something we never expected: a ...
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Pendragon Delivers Strategic Gameplay Across Countless Arthurian Adventures
I played through 10 beginnings, 10 journeys, and 10 endings, yet that feels like just the tip of the Pendragon iceberg. Once, the ...
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Forgotten Fields Is Shaping Up as a Charming Slice-of-Life Story with a Killer Mood
The premise is so clichéd: a writer with writer’s block. But clichés are clichés for a reason. Even after a hundred stories have ...
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Trepang2 Is F.E.A.R. Itself, and I’m in Love
Countless times in this industry, we’ve been promised that a new game will capture the spirit of a long abandoned inspiration. It’s safe ...
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Hands-on with Crucible, Amazon’s Big-Budget F2P Hero Shooter – The Escapist Show
Amazon Game Studios has released its first big-budget title, Crucible, a free-to-play hero shooter. Is it actually worth playing? Jack and Nick find ...
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Work Doesn’t Suck in Management Sim Good Company
Playing Good Company taught me that I do not have what it takes to run an electronics manufacturing business, even when the employees ...
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Dreamscaper Is Like the Pretty Lovechild of Transistor and Catherine
Dreamscaper entrances. Ethereal and indistinct, the game’s aesthetic captures that fleeting sense of a dream, where details fade and all that’s left is ...
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Could Make an Amazing Esport
There’s something special in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord — something that I hope takes the gaming world by storm. I’m talking about ...
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Going Hands-On with the Terrifying GTFO Infection Update
“GTFO doesn’t hold any hands,” promised GTFO lead designer Ulf Andersson, the mastermind of Payday 2. And bloody hell, he really wasn’t kidding. ...
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In Other Waters Uses Its Limitations to Enhance Gameplay Immersion
The playable prologue demo for In Other Waters, the upcoming first effort from “one-man-studio” Jump Over The Age, begins with a xenobiologist seeking ...