It’s Pronounced Shoe-Limb-Uh: Lords of Xulima
Lords of Xulima is a first offering from fledgling game studio Numantian Games. The company funded the game through Kickstarter on the promise of an old-school isometric CRPG, like classics Ultima,...
View ArticleEndless Review: Endless Legend
My typical pattern with a 4X game, such as Civilization, Master of Orion 3, Galactic Civilizations, and so on is to play intensely for a couple days, realize how it devours my time and mind, and quit....
View Article@ Is for Adventurer: Brogue
What I love about Roguelikes are the endless exploration afforded by procedural dungeon generation, experimentation with tactics from all the magic items, and a learning curve to tease my intellect....
View ArticleMine’s Bigger: Massive Chalice
This article was supposed to be some kind of dick joke, but instead, I’m too amazed: Why didn’t anyone tell me that Massive Chalice is basically X-Com Fantasy Edition? I would’ve played it rather than...
View ArticleFull-Contact Gardening: Lili: Child of Geos
Imagine you’re a university student finishing up your degree on magical plants. Not that much of a stretch, right? As part of your final thesis, possibly your dissertation, you travel to the far-off...
View ArticleBasic Mysteries of Life: Eldritch
Eldritch is a terrific little game. Drawing from the Lovecraft mythos, it gives you procedurally-generated levels full of increasingly-terrifying monsters to sneak, fight, and explore your way through....
View ArticleFlailing: Exanima
Exanima is the early release of the kickstarted open-world game Sui Generis, by Bare Mettle Entertainment, a prologue designed to show the current state of the game. What it displays is a 3D world...
View ArticleBurn, Don’t Slash: Wildfire
I often have the secret, secret urge to use fire to punish my enemies and destroy the unworthy. Please don’t tell anyone. Happily, I’ve backed a game on Kickstarter that lets me indulge my urges...
View ArticleKeep Right: One Way Heroics
You know that dream where you’re running, and everything behind you is disappearing into darkness and you just know that it’s crumbling away into nothing and somewhere out there is a platypus? No? Just...
View ArticleAmericansplaining: Democracy 3
Taking only one hour in a game before writing about it is a special torture. I don’t have long to make decisions or poke around. I can’t indulge the analysis paralysis that usually gets me. I just have...
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