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Review: Love Eternal Despite its far from fully-formed narrative – on top of a questionable weird for weird's sake interjection at points – Love Eternal's visual, audible and (unexpected) mechanical twists, grant this pre...

Love Eternal's visual, audible and (unexpected) mechanical twists, grant this precision-platformer effort, enough mystery and break from convention, to entice.

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CiniCross Has Done the Unthinkable: Made Nonograms (of All Things) a Dementedly-Addictive Roguelite Hook Eagerly awaited and something one longs to find they may be, demos that hook you from the word go, remain a cautious double-edged sword. Find something that not only draws you in, but keeps you fixate...

CiniCross Has Done the Unthinkable: Made Nonograms (of All Things) a Dementedly-Addictive Roguelite Hook

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Tearscape's Combat Merits and Adventurous Charm Make This A Game Boy-Like Throwback Worth Exploring Not for the first time that so soon after establishing this domain, I find myself taking solace – and more importantly, modest enjoyment – in a game (perhaps unknowingly) benefiting from a more high-p...

Tearscape's Combat Merits and Adventurous Charm Make This A Game Boy-Like Throwback Worth Exploring

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Review: MIO: Memories in Orbit Developer Douze Dixièmes' foray into Metroidvania exploration and discovery, is nothing short of brilliant. Structurally curious yet thematically moving, MIO: Memories in Orbit has made an almighty ca...

MIO: Memories in Orbit has made an almighty case for recognition as not just one of the year's best, but perhaps, one of the best Metroidvania's in years.

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Review: Death Howl Challenging, unforgiving and incredibly rewarding as a result, Death Howl's imposing atmosphere and artistic direction, make this a truly stand-out souls-like/deck-builder hybrid for the ages. One una...

Death Howl is a dense, smart and truly brilliant package of aesthetics and mechanics working to full effect.

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@theouterzone.bsky.social @11bitstudios.bsky.social

Crawling Out of One Slot-Machine Roguelike Hole...and Into Another with Slots & Daggers "Oh you thought you'd outwitted us and managed to escape?" publisher Future Friends Games, I suspect, muttered with gleeful intent (though admittedly have zero proof to validate). "Fool! There was nev...

Crawling Out of One Slot-Machine Roguelike Hole...and Into Another with Slots & Daggers

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Review: CloverPit Fiendish addiction paves the way to a slot-machine roguelike jam-packed with clever mechanics, ample dopamine hits and just the right assortment of small details to appreciate. With CloverPit, Panik A...

With CloverPit, Panik Arcade have delivered a condensed, but mightily impressive package.

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Review: Öoo Charming style, delightfully revelatory puzzles and one of the best executions of slowly revealing key mechanics to its players. Developer Nama Takahashi has done it yet again: Öoo is pure, puzzle-pla...

Charming style, delightfully revelatory puzzles and one of the best executions of slowly revealing key mechanics to its players. Developer Nama Takahashi has done it yet again: Öoo is pure, puzzle-platforming bliss.

Review: www.ctrlr.net/review-ooo/

@namataka.bsky.social

Review: Cipher Zero A plentiful number of interesting rules, wrapped around an elegantly minimalist aesthetic, makes Cipher Zero an easy recommendation for logic-tinkering, puzzle fans. Its communication isn't flawless, ...

A plentiful number of interesting rules, wrapped around an elegantly minimalist aesthetic, makes Cipher Zero an easy recommendation for logic-tinkering, puzzle fans.

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Review: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Despite an overburdening start – brimming with systems and mechanics to grasp – and momentary technical issues, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' extensive build depth and nods to Soulslikes' subtler qualitie...

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' extensive build depth and nods to Soulslikes' subtler qualities, make it a pleasant if not entirely revolutionary take on the genre

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@playwuchang.bsky.social @505games.com

In Silksong's Absence, Constance Could Very Well Be The Game to Fill That Hollow-like Void No matter the genre, no matter the size and stature of that which is revered so, whenever a game releases that attracts so much of both a critical and cultural zeitgeist, sooner or later there are bou...

In Silksong's Absence, Constance Could Very Well Be The Game to Fill That Hollow-like Void

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Flick Shot Rogues' Ricocheting, Billiards-Like Chaos Makes It An Immediate Addiction Maybe it's the three word onomatopoeia-like punctuating effect these words have: fli-CK, sho-T, ro-GUES. Maybe it's the fact each of these words are consigned to a single syllable, thus rendering it a...

Flick Shot Rogues' Ricocheting, Billiards-Like Chaos Makes It An Immediate Addiction

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Ball x Pit is the Vampire Survivors/Breakout Mash-Up That Proves Mounting Strength Doesn't Mean Diminished Weakness Unlike a lot of people, I was fairly late to getting all-but-lost in the intensely-addictive, intensly-moreish cycle of "one more go, then I'll quit I swear" that was (and most likely still is) Vampir...

Ball x Pit is the Vampire Survivors/Breakout Mash-Up That Proves Mounting Strength Doesn't Mean Diminished Weakness

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Öoo, Like ElecHead Before It, Champions The Genius of Visual Language Through Minimalism "Öoo" – the name of Japanese developer Nama Takahashi follow-up to the brilliantly-minimal yet cleverly-constructed puzzle-platformer ElecHead. But also the first sound one made upon discovery that sa...

Öoo, Like ElecHead Before It, Champions The Genius of Visual Language Through Minimalism

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@namataka.bsky.social

Review: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo Pocket Trap's yo-yo themed adventure lands firmly in the realm of entertaining, let alone evocatively nostalgic.

Player-curated challenge and a novel, versatile twist to combat helps Pocket Trap's yo-yo themed adventure land firmly in the realm of entertaining, let alone evocatively nostalgic.

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CloverPit's Premise, While Familiar, Nonetheless Stirs Up A Moreishly Risk-Reward Loop "One more pull, one more pull!" When I was younger (for clarity, I'm talking pre-double figures here), one of my most prized toys/gadgets was this miniature slot machine. Small, but technically fun...

CloverPit's Premise, While Familiar, Nonetheless Stirs Up A Moreishly Risk-Reward Loop

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Review: Labyrinth of the Demon King Combining the restrictiveness of first-person dungeon-crawling, with the psychological dread of early 3D survival-horror greatest strides, solo developer J. R. Hudepohl pulls no punches with a game th...

Developer J. R. Hudepohl pulls no punches with Labyrinth of the Demon King. A game that is unforgiving, unrelenting but surprisingly gripping as a result.

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Introducing...Ctrlr Deciding how best to start this introductory piece has, no joke, probably been one of the hardest things to wrap my head around these past three months. More difficult than getting an actual web page ...

Introducing...Ctrlr
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