By Jatin Gundara When I first saw the promotional materials for Alkimia Interactive’s Gothic 1 Remake, I had a feeling that I knew what I was getting myself into. With the poster showing a conventional group of RPG protagonists (what seem like a mage, warrior, etc) surrounded by hordes of enemies in a red hellscape,…
By Mary-Ellis Ryan Are you tired of slow-paced mobile RPGs with endless, unskippable cutscenes? Maybe it’s time to jump straight into the fun with Dicero. In this game, instead of using traditional weapons, your battle power is determined by your luck and strategy with the dice. You roll a set of five dice at the bottom…
By Khloe Wilkerson There’s a moment early in People of Note where the screen fades into a fully choreographed musical performance, lights explode across the stage, and it clicks: this isn’t a game that simply uses music as background noise. Developed by Iridium Studios, People of Note is built around the idea that music can…
New York Game Awards and GG! Fest tickets (which includes the big, Supergiant Unplugged concert) are now available! Get them before they sell out! By Tina Lam “Kore wa dare no monogatari desu ka?” That means “Whose story is this?” And it was just one of the sentences I learned how to read thanks to a…
By Isaac Espinosa My favorite video game character comes from Honkai: Star Rail, and while she wasn’t in its 3.6 version update, I adore her all the same. Previous five-star characters The Herta and Anaxa returned, along with new characters Evernight and Dan Heng: Permansor Terrae. Any of these four would be incredibly valuable for…
On the surface, Creature Keeper seems similar to the game Pokémon GO, where you capture and train animals in the wild. But Creature Keeper, very unique to its style and genre, is a monster-taming RPG that was created by solo developer John Pantaleon, who created Ferivir Games. It was first crowdfunded in 2019 and was originally…
We missed some great games during the year. In this ongoing feature, we look back at offerings we finally got a chance to review. By Ronald Gordon I never thought that a game with a cutesy, playful exterior could pinch me as hard as a crab’s crusher claw, yet here I am having died several…
By Isaac Espinosa As the race for the Crystal Stars begins, will Mario be able to keep up in order to save Princess Peach? Or will she, along with the rest of the world, fall under the control of the sinister X-Nauts? The charming Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, first released in 2004, was…
By Theresa Afful Silent Hope, an action RPG released this fall, is set in a peaceful country where the former King silences the people, steals their speech, and then runs away into an endless hole called The Abyss. In this Switch game, the Princess cried, mourning her father’s actions, until her solidified tears buried her…
While we try to write about as many games as we can as a small nonprofit, as the year winds down, we pay homage to some of the great games we missed upon their release. Here’s Kimari’s look at Sea of Stars, which we purchased for her to review. By Kimari Rennis Leave it to…