Narrative adventure games have always lived and died by their ability to empower players with choice. In Telltale Games’ case, this empowerment far outweighs the all too common banal, “good or evil” path for a player to venture down. By giving players a variety of minor and significant stake situations, it allows every action to […]
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The conversation of what constitutes “real horror” has always irked me. The notion that a horror experience is entirely reliant on its ability to scare one silly is a disservice to the narrative and gameplay potential that the genre can offer. Potential that Wolfeye Studios’ Weird West fully embraces in the most refreshingly, well, weird […]
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While we may have missed last week, Neil and I are back with a vengeance for this month’s Horror Bytes! For April’s edition of Horror Bytes, in which Neil and I each highlight four bite-sized horror experiences, we’ve done our damndest to find a varied crop of spooky slices of horror. If anything, our picks […]
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There’s simply wearing influences on one’s sleeve, and then there’s using those influences to craft a fully realized vision of horror. And ten years later, Jasper Byrne’s Lone Survivor is very much the latter. In Lone Survivor, the player traverses a world ravaged by an unknown plague being made all the more hellish by encountering […]
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Remakes and remasters have been a contentious topic in the gaming world for the better part of two decades. Developers find themselves in the seemingly impossible high wire act of evolving on a game’s past while ensuring not to alter its storied identity. And that’s even before passionate fandom input is involved. This balance has […]
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In the conversation of horror games, there’s a tendency to measure a title’s worth in scares. And while fear is an inherent strength of the genre, to entirely base horror games’ worth on that metric would be a disservice to the variety of experiences horror can offer. Much like PG-13 films fostering a love of […]
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It’s Horror Bytes Episode 3, and for the third installment of our monthly segment in which Neil and I cover bite-sized horror experiences, we have another unique crop of spooky slices of horror. Amongst this month’s picks, we have a spooky VHS police training video, a child uncovering their father’s dark secret, a surreal dinner […]
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At its core, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II is an infected epic all about love. Notable in more ways than one, the original game shined as an example of mature storytelling bolstered by personable characters you couldn’t help but be enamored with. The Last of Us didn’t so much remind us of […]
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I think we have all played our fair share of zombie games by this point. And while I enjoy bolstering defenses in We Are Billions and mowing down hordes in Back 4 Blood as much as the next person, the archetypes of zombie experiences are relatively set in stone. Something developer The Indie Stone has […]
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Dying Light 2 has been out just over a week now, and it’s clearly found a sizable audience. One that connects with its open-world parkour and zombie-smashing. Why wouldn’t people like that? It’s a bigger, bolder sequel to Techland’s 2015 title, and as my review for Bloody Disgusting shows, I am among those that enjoyed […]
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Horror Bytes is back! It’s Horror Bytes Episode 2, and for the second installment of our monthly segment in which Neil and I cover bite-sized horror experiences, we’ve increased our number of picks from two to four games apiece. This allows us to produce a more substantial conversation and dissuade me from continuing to inundate […]
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Innovation isn’t always everything. For as frequently as the industry champions evolving genre standards, a portion of fanbases still frequently yearn for something familiar. Call it rose-tinted glasses or yearning for days of yesteryears, but games that serve as a homage to more classical game design are seemingly a hot commodity these days. And while […]
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Style over substance is often a worry of mine when it comes to oddball indie games. While a game’s main draw might be a unique aesthetic or art style, I’m always cautious of whether the same amount of attention has been applied to the game’s mechanics themselves. And as we all know, there’s nothing more […]
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Despite one’s best efforts, the inescapable truth of games coverage is that it is impossible to cover it all. And for someone like myself who only recently re-entered the PC gaming space, I have barely explored the horrifying depths of the genre. So, in an effort to continually expand our horror palettes, Neil and I […]
The start of a new year can be a chaotic period. Recalling personal milestones from the previous year while scrambling to create lax resolutions for the new one can be a chore. Thankfully, we have the medium of games to turn to when it’s time to ground ourselves. And much like with other aspects of […]