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Criminally Underrated Roguelikes on PS4
Roguelikes are enjoying a surge in popularity, and it isn’t hard to see why. Instead of leaning heavily on over-the-top visuals, dazzling cutscenes, elaborate plotlines, and complicated mechanics, roguelikes keep it simple and rely solely on the gameplay. You might get a brief tutorial before they launch you into the central gameplay loop, but usually…
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Gelatinous for Game Boy Crushes its Kickstarter Funding Goal in 75 Minutes
The Gelatinous team destroyed their funding goal and has unlocked all stretch goals. The long-awaited Game Boy platformer is nearing completion. Pending the final 9 days of their Kickstarter campaign, the team is poised to implement newly-unlocked features and get Gelatinous out into the world so they can start on their next project. Learn more…
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New Indie Game Boy Titles You Need to Get Your Hands On
Although the Game Boy was first released over 30 years ago, it continues to be a popular handheld console for retro gamers. Maybe it’s nostalgia kicking in or the fact that a small team can make a very enjoyable game, or a combination of both, but modern game creators are still producing physical copies of…
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Superliminal – A Mind-Bending Experience
First person puzzle platformers aren’t a genre of video games that is widely discussed. At least not that I hear. That doesn’t mean that they are not on the market but, to me, they seem to be few and far between. I’ve noticed that every first person puzzle platformer tends to have a theme since…
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Deliriant Game Review
Deliriants are defined as a class of hallucinogen. The term was introduced by David F. Duncan and Robert S. Gold to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics and dissociatives, such as LSD and ketamine respectively, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid states produced by such other hallucinogens as…
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This Game is Not Fun – Little Adventure on the Prairie Review
Little Adventure on the Prairie is a hack and slash adventure game where you follow a young man with an insatiable appetite for destroying anything that gets in his way. Little Adventure on the Prairie was developed and published by Infinite Madaa. I believe this was Infinite Madaa’s first game and it shows. It was…
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Leap until you Puke with Jump King – for Switch, PS4, and XBox
If you think you’re good at games, try Jump King. There’s a Smoking Hot Babe at the top! The promotional email I received for Jump King promised “a comically vicious vertical platformer.” My thought was, “Oh, I love platformers. Watch me eat this little game for breakfast.” But in the end, I was the breakfast.…
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Endzone: A World Apart Review
Following an apocalyptic nuclear incident, the few surviving humans are forced to live in underground facilities called “endzones.” The game takes place 150 years later, as humans are emerging from the endzones and back onto the surface to begin… well, you know: city-building.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Alien Scumbags brings 8 bits of carnage to Steam
Monster Finger Games has mashed up your favorite franchises into a horror parody platformer. Alien Scumbags packs an impressive amount of content into a shiny little package. It’s a 2D, 8-bit platformer with cheeky nods to classic action, horror, and sci fi franchises like DOOM, Duke Nukem, Halo (the main protagonist is Master Chef), Aliens,…
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Dogurai for PS4 – Game Boy aesthetics in a tough platformer
If Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden had a pet together… it would be Dogurai on PS4, Steam, and Switch Looking for a retro-style platforming game that is reminiscent of old Gameboy boy games? Dogurai is here to slice through the competition. The game has eight stages with countless enemies to hack and slash you way…
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Grow a Cannabis Empire in Blaze Revolutions
Grow your empire. Then smoke it? Here’s our Blaze Revolutions review. I don’t know how you spent your 4/20 this 2020, but I spent it growing my marijuana empire in the new stealth/tycoon hybrid Blaze Revolution on Steam. Does that sound like a real thing? A stealth/tycoon hybrid? I’ve never heard of such a thing,…