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is that rare adventure that tells you mostly what you need to know about it in one short syllable. The game’s title refers not only to the dire situation its protagonist finds himself in, but also acts as a sort of directive to the player. To see this game through to the end, players are […]

The link between roleplaying games and adventures is a close-knit one, with both sides championing the importance of storytelling but complementing that with different gameplay emphases. Enter One Bit Studio, a one-man developer whose indie debut has adapted the RPG Maker software to bridge the gap between genres. The game may look like a 16-bit […]

The experimental indie scene is the place to go to find unique game ideas unaltered, presented the way their creators conceived them. 12 East Games’ certainly does this, offering an enigmatically ambiguous dystopian future to run around and solve puzzles in, marrying a first-person graphic adventure with an ultra-traditional text-based interface. But it may have somewhat […]

With their well-received sci-fi debut in 2015, The Brotherhood set a high bar for their next project. With , the indie South African developer led by Nic and Chris Bischoff maintains the slick isometric presentation style of its predecessor but takes quite a thematic left turn, leaving behind the isolation of space horror in favor […]

When Studio Fizbin’s The Inner World released in 2013, it was a pleasant surprise: an inaugural adventure from a first-time developer that managed to impress with its charmingly animated characters, clever inventory-based puzzles, and appealing subterranean world. With their follow-up , the German team aims to recreate their success by largely sticking closely to the […]

What would happen if Ridley Scott’s cyber cop Rick Deckard found himself supplanted from his dystopian Los Angeles to a rural outpost in the middle of nowhere? Or if the Coen brothers’ Marge Gunderson was transported into a tech-noir future to investigate a string of murders? The answer to both is , a collaborative effort […]

Phoenix Wright hardly needs an introduction: Capcom’s legendary defense attorney has not only starred in animated TV shows, a live action film, and no less than two musicals dedicated to his name, he also has two separate handheld game trilogies, not to mention a few spin-off and crossover titles. The fact that a series of […]