As its name suggests, Autonauts is a building and crafting game focused on building and automating production. You do this through your robots, whom you “program” by training them to perform repetitive tasks.
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Plants. Zombies. Enemies from the dawn of time, as we all know. But the question the game Deadcraft dares to pose is…what if plants are zombies?
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The Serpent Rogue is an interesting mashup. It’s part Souls-like, part crafting, and a whole lot of trial and error. It’s both accessible and challenging, adorable and inscrutable, and quite charming all the while.
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Did you ever dream of being an astronaut? I did. I was entranced by both the thrill of Buck Rogers’ dogfights-in-space version as well as the dopey goofiness of our actual space program. Enter orbit.industries, a building management sim based on the concept of a commercial orbital station.
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Short version: Mokoko X is Qix, and Qix is always great. But the developer added two spins to this game: bosses and a storyline. The latter of these is—to put it in technical terms—Bonkers Magoo.
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Some games are challenging by design. They offer no help. They are demanding. Some games, however, are challenging because they are simply confounding. Ikai, unfortunately, is one of those games.
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Gal*Gun Double Peace is a shooter-on-rails game with light elements of a dating sim. You play a high school boy who gets shot by a powerful love arrow, causing girls to attacking him to declare their love. What follows is…well…
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An out-of-work magician with a child and elderly mother to support is blackmailed into a life of crime, breaking into a museum to steal a mystic amulet that fuses with his body, turning him into a werewolf. I know what you’re thinking: “Again!?”
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Omega Labyrinth Life is a roguelike dungeon crawler set in the garden of a Japanese Academy where the miracle flower that keeps the garden forever blooming has been destroyed, and the female high school students must descend to the underworld to restore it by…wait; is our age verification in place?
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A group of teenage girls is accidentally doused with a potion that turns them into “animals.” But there is a solution to save these sexy animal girls—you get them into a pinball machine and strike their bodies with a pinball until they collapse from apparent ecstasy and change back. It’s a tale as old as time.
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It’s difficult to review A Dark Room for the Nintendo Switch, not because I haven’t played the game (I have) and not because I didn’t enjoy it (I did). …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A penguin wants to fly. So naturally it boards a rocket and flies into space. But! Wouldn’t you know it, there’s an …
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Sure, you love brawling games, with their frenetic gameplay, dizzying speed, and best of all, the fun of crushing your friends and loved ones with imaginary violence. But what if …
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Why this game? Why has Final Fantasy VII (FF7) not only lingered in the minds of players, not only had a remastered version announced, but been released over and over …
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Some games are designed around a stripped-down experience: you get only the elements you need and nothing to distract you from the challenge. She Remembered Caterpillars isn’t like this. It’s …
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I hate jumping puzzles in games. I hate them so much that I asked a friend who works in the industry, to put up a note in the break …
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Some games are amazing for how they let you fail. Much like Icarus, they let you push past the limits of the real world and fly to the sun, knowing …
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There’s a point about halfway through Pikuniku where you meet Ernie. Ernie is the son of the gigantic worm with whom you’ve joined forces to defeat an evil corporation that’s …
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