Gravity Badgers is a gravity-based game similar to the Angry Birds franchise. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really become more than that which is a shame. This title is not bad by any means, but doesn’t push the genre to a new level and doesn’t experiment with new gameplay mechanics.
In War of the Human Tanks players participate in matches of progression / attrition. Before starting a battle players must thumb through tons of dialogue and still frame graphics before actually getting to do anything. Thankfully the developers realized this was going to be a problem for the less reader-ish gamers out there and so this can be skipped though through a very fast message skip feature, unfortunately messages sent during battle do not get skipped and there’s a ton before the battles.
Hmm what can I say about Rekoil? Nothing! Rekoil is a multiplayer only game, but it has no multiplayer. You may be asking “What? That doesn’t make sense!”
In Long Live The Queen players take control of a Crown Princess who will become Queen and is constantly having every facet of her character tested. It seems like no matter what players do and how they build up the Crown Princess, something isn’t good enough. This is a frustration but at the same time the game is well put together enough that this also encourages multiple play-throughs and mastery of the mechanics. This means Long Live The Queen achieves a large amount of replay value, albeit at the cost of being an addiction and very difficult to master title.
With Blackguards, Daedalic Entertainment have created a game that is not easy to get into but unlocks tons of fun and satisfying gameplay for hardcore role playing game fans who are able to master its control set and user interface. If those don’t scare you off, then you’re in for a treat. Blackguards rewards players with a decent story, great battles, and an easy on the eyes experience that easily stands out in its genre.
Strike Vector is a strictly air-born, strictly multiplayer piloting / shooting game that is visually appealing and provokes a strong sense of competition for those that play it consistently. Shamefully, the game’s many online dedicated servers sit empty the majority of the time and players come and go even within a single match so often it almost seems like nobody is enjoying themselves enough to stick around and kill or be killed. So much potential exists in this title, and yet ultimately it falls short of being a great game for several distinct reasons.
Magicite is an indie game that has an early access release on steam and continues the trend of indie survival adventure games but with a 2D platformer / RPG twist to it. When players start the game they create a character of which they would like to play the game as. This character creation process includes being able to choose how he / she will look. Stats for the character are randomly generated along with traits. Annoyingly though, you cannot select your own stats or traits which diminishes the customizability of your character.
Frozen Hearth is a real time strategy game available right now on Steam with a unique story-line that gives way to original gameplay mechanics and a diverse set of units which are controlled by the player in addition to a main hero style character that is customized to some extent based on the player’s play-style. Structure building has been simplified quite a bit to keep the player’s focus on the battle at hand and so sub-structures are built and replaced as attachments to the home base rather than freestyle bases being built across empty lands.
Nidhogg grabs potential buyers right away from the first sight of gameplay with its simplistic, retro-inspired art design and graphics. Using a conservative amount of colors and techniques, development studio Messhof has managed to pull off one of the most purely fun games to release in recent memory for the Windows PC gaming platform.
Ethan: Meteor Hunter is a 2D puzzle/platformer from developers Seaven Studio. It stars the titular protagonist, a little rat who is struck by meteorites and gains the power of telekinesis. With this new found power, Ethan goes on an adventure to collect more meteorites in order to become even more powerful. His overall goal however is to get revenge on the neighbor who destroyed his house. Is this a revenge tale worth getting into? In short…no!
Based on the award-winning Fables comic books by Bill Willingham, The Wolf Among Us is a point-and-click episodic series from developer Telltale games. This dark and twisted take on fairy tale lore, stars Sheriff Bigby Wolf (formerly the Big Bad Wolf) whose job is to keep the citizens of Fabletown safe. When a fable (fairy tale character) is brutally murdered, it is up to Bigby found out who is responsible and why. The story of this prequel to the comic series will be told across 5 episodes. The first episode titled “Faith”, started things off with a bang, and while there are a few missteps in episode two, it continues this trend. Note*: You must own episode one in order for you to be able to play this episode, as it counts as DLC.
Broken Age is a point and click adventure game, sounds fun already. It tells the story of a young boy and girl living parallel lives to each other without knowledge. A girl living in a village, a boy living in a spaceship. The girl is selected as the next to be sacrificed to a monster, but she refuses. While the boy is living alone only with a computer, I guess you could say is mom to watch him, but he wants to get away and live adventures of his own.
Not The Robots is a Survival/Stealth game where the player plays as an unknown robot who eats furniture and avoids security robots from small to medium sized.
Monkey Mofo probably gets its name from the fact that it will puzzle your brain like a Mofo! But as it’s just a monkey it dissarms the word a bit, making it a deceptively difficult game to master and yet easy and addictive enough at the onset to get you hooked. All of the mistakes players will make while trying to keep up with the game’s rapid speed could have them feeling a bit dumb, but instead of blaming yourself – pushing forward into the later stages actually provides an extremely rewarding feeling of gaining extra intelligence as has become very popular with other brain-tasking titles in the recent past.
The Shivah is a point and click adventure style game by Wadjet Eye Games. I have always these types of games to be extremely entertaining and fun experience just based off the fact of how simple but amazing it is.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 simulates the experience of being a truck driver throughout central Europe. The ETS world is enormous; I have driven for over 13 hours yet I’ve still only managed to discover a fraction of the world. Because of this, there is satisfaction in exploring new roads and cities, but the real satisfaction is when you get paid in cash for successfully delivering a load. That is why ETS is a great game; it is simple yet has a economic sandbox core.
This game is so bad, that it is almost fun to play. Based of the title of this game, you would think that it would involve actual search and rescue missions. No! Literally all that you do in this game is search for items scattered about the “open world” map, which is huge! The open world makes traveling a drag. It is so boring to ride along on the ridiculous bike for minutes just to get the objective. I will touch on that a little bit later on. Basically every mechanic this game has sucks. This game sucks so bad that it is almost fun to play, because of how ridiculous it is.
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance first appeared on consoles in February of 2013, but has finally arrived for PC. It now plays in 60 FPS and 1080P, that is if your rig can handle that. Although, I do highly recommended playing this game with a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse – because the way the control mechanics work, it is difficult to play with keys. This is definitely a great game, but it does still have some of the flaws that the console versions have. With that said, it is still an amazing game to freshen things up for the PC gaming community.
Knytt Underground is a platformer where the player explores wide varieties of environments. It is a title for PS3, Vita, Steam and Wii U. For the Wii U version, the Gamepad and Wii U Pro Controller are supported with off-screen play as an option as well via Gamepad Support and cross-save cloud support with the dual ownership cross-buy deal for PS3 / Vita owners.
Type: Rider is an education game, teaching players the history of typography. This sounds dreadful doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. Type: Rider manages to be exciting to play, but also teach players the history of typography.
The Stanley Parable started as a Half Life 2 Mod years ago, but has recently been remade into its own game. TSP is an exploration game with no action or violence whatsoever; It is driven by the narrator, and how he wants the story to go. If the player does as the narrator says, the game technically will end very shortly (took me 5 min). But that’s not what this game is. When the player “beats the game” the player hasn’t actually beat the game, because it is impossible to beat this game. TSP is called an exploration game. The player is supposed to disobey the narrator and explore the story; Find out what happened to Stanley’s co-workers, wife, and job.
From the makers of many games featuring zombies and the creators of Charlie Murder comes a crazy game. Time Viking and Space Raptor is an endless horde style gaming experience. With waves of crazy chaos featuring various enemies and backgrounds with music cranked to max volume.
Hero of the Kingdom starts out with a tutorial that guides players through some of the basic functions of the game and introduces them to the art style to be expected further down the line as well. The player’s family farm burns down once the tutorial completes, forcing an adventure that holds many challenges. At its core Hero of the Kingdom is a point-and-click adventure. In reality though, point-and-click adventures have never really gone this far with item accumulation and bartering being key elements the player focuses on as well as resource gathering.
Now in the final act of The Raven after the awesome experience in the first episode, and the good but slightly less awesome experience in episode two, we are met with the conclusion to something great that started in episode one. But now we find our self in a odd place.
After leaving many of us emotional wrecks with last years The Walking Dead: The game, developers Telltale games return with The Walking Dead: Season 2. Just like in the first season, this story will be told across five episodes. With episode one: “All That Remains”, Telltale comes out swinging.