Need to know What is it? A fan-made Half-Life remake.Expect to pay £15/$20Developer Crowbar CollectiveReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel i7-9700K, 16GB RAMLink Official site One morning in the New Mexico desert, a 27-year-old theoretical physicist turns up late for work. The next thing he knows monsters are spilling out of portals from another world, […]
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Need to know What is it? A top-down, ultra-fast action game with blood and gore and physics.Expect to pay $20/£14Developer Paper CultPublisher Paper CultReviewed on GTX 1060 6GB, AMD FX-4130, 8GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink Official site Left for dead with a bullet to the head, it’s hard to think of worse ways to end a Friday […]
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Need to know What is it? Real time stealth/turn based tacticsExpect to pay: $20/£16Developer: The Bearded LadiesPublisher: The Bearded LadiesReviewed on: Intel i5, 16gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 1660Multiplayer? NoLink: Epic Games Store Now this was unexpected: a new game from the creators of Mutant Year Zero: The Road to Eden, announced just two weeks before […]
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Need to know What is it? Construction game about building siege engines and smashing stuff.Expect to pay $10/£7Developer Spiderling StudiosPublisher Spiderling StudiosReviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Super, 32GB RAMMultiplayer Competitive and cooperative modesLink Official site Besiege is notionally a game about engineering medieval siege weapons. But I think of it […]
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Need to know What is it? An ARPG with more than a hint of Diablo and Path of ExileExpect to pay £31/$40Developer Wolcen StudioPublisher In-houseReviewed on GTX 1080Ti, Intel i7-8086K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer YesLink Official site An unhealthy number of hours spent carving my way through ARPGs like Diablo and Path of Exile ensured that Wolcen: […]
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Need to know What is it? A mystery game about a woman uncovering her past in a huge hotelExpect to pay $20/£15Developer ONE-O-ONE GamesPublisher Daedalic EntertainmentMultiplayer NoLink Official Site Walking sims have carved their own little corner in video games. Their focus on telling intimate stories through engaging environments gives diverse and personal topics the […]
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Need to know What is it? Platformer meets point-and-click in the third (and final?) Ben and Dan game.Expect to pay £15.50/$20Developer Size Five GamesPublisher Size Five GamesReviewed on Intel Core i3-8350K CPU, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1060Multiplayer? NoLink Official site Genuinely funny games are still something of a rarity. So without wishing to dismiss or […]
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NEED TO KNOW What is it? A third-person mech combat gameExpect to pay $60/£50Developer Marvelous IncPublisher XSEED GamesReviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 2060, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? Online PvP and co-op, up to 4 playersLink Official site Third-person mech blaster, Daemon X Machina, tells the story of a world recovering from a major catastrophe. The moon […]
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Need to know What is it? A puzzle adventure about a boy exploring a dark tower with his cat companionExpect to pay $23/£17Developer Lantern StudioPublisher Coconut Island GamesMultiplayer? NoLink Official site Hand-drawn animation has been making a resurgence in games recently and it’s a more than welcome feature. There’s something intimate and charming about 2D […]
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Need to know What is it? A point-and-click adventure game about a group of characters traveling through KentuckyExpect to pay: $25 / £19Developer: Cardboard ComputerPublisher: Annapurna InteractiveMultiplayer: NoLink: Official site It’s taken seven years for developers Cardboard Computer to release all five episodes of its otherworldly adventure. It was first Kickstarted in 2011. Chapter 1 […]
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Need to know What is it? The story of Nazi Germany, as experience by a fictional group of its citizens.Expect to pay $15/£13.49Developer Paintbucket GamesPublisher HandyGamesReviewed on GeForce GTX 1650, AMD Ryzen 5 3550H, 8 GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink Official site No matter how intelligent or empathetic you are, it’s incredibly difficult—arguably impossible—to truly comprehend the […]
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Need to know What is it? A 2.5D platform puzzler set within signs.Expect to pay $20/£15.49Developer Skookum ArtsPublisher Skookum ArtsReviewed on i7 9700K, RTX 2080 TI, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink Official site In those moments when your mind drifts away from whatever mundane reality you’ve put in front of it, do you ever imagine the stickmen […]
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Need to know What is it? Anxiety-inducing VR zombie survival game.Expect to pay $40/£31Developer Skydance InteractivePublisher Skydance InteractiveReviewed On AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Super, 32GB RAM, Oculus Quest (via Oculus Link).Multiplayer? NopeLink Official site We all know how to kill a zombie in theory. It’s easy, you just destroy the brain. […]
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Need to know What is it? A turn-based strategy adaptation of the Netflix TV show.Expect to pay: $20/£15.49Developer: BonusXPPublisher: En Masse EntertainmentReviewed on: Intel i5-3570K, Nvidia GTX 970, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Steam I love strategy games, and I love The Dark Crystal, but heading into this adaptation of the Netflix TV series, I was pretty […]
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Need to know What is it? A free-to-play card game based on League of Legends.Expect to pay: FreeDeveloper: Riot GamesPublisher: Riot GamesReviewed on: i7 7700, RTX 2070, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? YesLink: playruneterra.com/ I don’t think I can stomach buying another booster pack after playing Legends of Runeterra. It’s a necessary part of physical card games where […]
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