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It took a good few decades after the inception of filmmaking for the industry to hit its artistic stride. Many would argue that video games have arrived at that point much more quickly, especially considering they had many narrative and visual techniques to work from, thanks to film. Things have come full circle with , […]

The concept of recurring days has become increasingly popular ever since the wonderful Groundhog Day. Happy Broccoli Games’ Kraken Academy!! sends its nondescript young male protagonist to a dilapidated boarding school, where he becomes trapped in just such a time loop until he can save it from certain doom. It’s a top-down adventure game that […]

While many of us can only dream of visiting scenic Italy in person, now more than ever, there’s nothing stopping us from doing so virtually. A Painter’s Tale: Curon, 1950 is a historical fiction adventure game made with support from IVIPRO, the Italian Videogame Program used to facilitate the development of games based around the […]

What happened? I’m afraid your guess will be as good as mine when it comes to Genius Slackers’ psychedelic first-person 3D adventure sprinkled with what you might call puzzles. The most obvious comparison would be to Layers of Fear, as it plays almost identically, though it lacks most of that game’s fear and, more importantly, […]

Dogs are referred to as “man’s best friend” for a reason. But what if your dog was really into cages? If it sold mysterious dark orbs for a living? Or perhaps drank too much alcohol due to the crippling knowledge of the dark ways of the world bearing down upon it. And what if your […]

My dreams of becoming a “corkboard sleuth” have finally been answered with indie developer Colestia’s A Hand With Many Fingers, if not quite as satisfyingly as I’d imagined. The game has you casually perusing a CIA archive, pulling up documents and cross-referencing locations, places, and names in order to find the next box of locations, […]

It certainly makes for a memorable gaming experience when you can pause at almost any time and it feels like you’re looking at an eerie pencil sketch. The solo creation of indie Swiss developer Michel Ziegler, Mundaun features a unique greyscale aesthetic that blends hand-drawn and computer-generated elements in a way that isn’t exactly beautiful […]

It’s a rare occurrence when a video game captures the hand-painted whimsical feel of our favourite animated films, but indie developer Venturous have accomplished just that with a new game that evokes a twinge of nostalgia. Voyage (not to be confused with Kheops Studio’s 2005 puzzler with the same name) is a side-scrolling adventure featuring […]

Nazis and the occult will forever be inseparable, though rarely in a way that turns out well for them. The videogame industry has proven that the only thing more appealing than beating Nazis is watching them turn into zombies first, and then beating them. Indie developer Indiesruption clearly understands this, and the proof is in […]

Some settings are so bleak that it is scarcely believable that people would still inhabit such places. Saint Kotar’s town of Sveti Kotar is a prime example of this, especially when viewed through the lens of its two devout protagonists. It is such a hopeless, wretched place that it becomes an imposing character in and […]