Everyone likes a good mystery. Especially when it takes place in a setting as fascinating as Mars, which is pretty much how Fort Solis sets its story up – you’re an engineer called Jack Leary, tasked with investigating the titular research facility of Fort Solis after receiving a mysterious distress signal, and getting no response from any of the crew members supposedly stationed at the base.
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was a game I immediately took interest in due to its intriguing premise – you’re the titular “bookwalker”, a man capable of literally diving into various novels in order to interact and interfere with their stories and characters, almost like he was a literary version of the protagonist from Inception.
As a fan of horror, whenever a new Amnesia game is announced, I can’t help but feel a certain jolt of excitement; we are, after all, talking about a series that revitalized the genre with its first installment all the way back in 2010, proving that horror can still very much be scary.
Ravenlok is a charming action-adventure game from developer Cococucumber and it’s about a young girl getting transported to a magical fantasy land, where she must take up sword and shield to stop a tyrannical queen because… she’s evil, I guess.
Rendezvous is a cyberpunk adventure game with some mild action/stealth segments. Set in a futuristic Indonesia, it puts you in the role of a man named Setyo on a quest to find his missing sister in a dystopian world of greedy megacorps, seedy criminal organizations and bodily augmentations.
It is a somewhat rare yet undoubtedly pleasant occasion whenever I play a game that sort of just… gets it. As in, it gets exactly what it needs to do in order to be a satisfying representation of its genre, ticking almost every single imaginary checkbox on the list of metroidvaniaism.
Indeed, Redemption Reapers is a strategy RPG – the kind where you move your units on a grid-based field, give out commands and watch things play out in a turn-based fashion.
If a few months or years ago you told me I’d one day be playing a game that’s essentially a mix of John Wick, Metal Gear Rising, Yakuza and Deadly Premonition, I would’ve probably looked at you all funny, but here we are.
Described as having been inspired by the works of David Lynch and Franz Kafka, along with Southern Gothic and Black Metal influences, Grunnd oftentimes feels like a dark, ominous painting in video game form.
Have you ever wanted to manage your own potion shop? Actually, I’ll go a step further: have you ever wanted to brew and sell your own potions? If the answer is yes, you’ll be happy to hear that Potion Craft is a game all about doing everything I’ve just described.
