Category: VG Reviews
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American Fugitive
American Fugitive, a open world game about doing crimes and an assortment of other random activities. If it sounds a bit like Grand Theft Auto, it’s because this game follows a similar style. Only this time, it’s all top-down. This isn’t a review of the full game, but the first portion of it. Thanks to…
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Outer Wilds
This is the Outer Wilds, a game that captures the explorer’s spirit. You don’t have just an open world, you have an open (admittedly tiny) solar system to explore! You are the newest member of the Hearthian space program, and you alone hope on a little one person spaceship and go out to find discoveries…
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Whispers of a Machine
A point-and-click game taking place after some kind of collapse. By the time you get into the story, society has mostly come back in a new and simpler form. People have gone back to pen and paper and doing things by hand. No more computers running things. Of course, there are hints of advanced technology,…
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
What is one’s world like when they experience things other people cannot? What happens when the one person that helps a person get through all that dies? Senua’s Sacrifice gives you that experience as Senua, a young Celtic(?) woman that hears and sees things. The only person that accepts her is her love, Dillion, but…
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Horace
Horace, a story heavy platforming game where you play as a newly created Robot. You will learn and grow as you get to know a fun cast of characters. Then, maybe you’ll even save the world. Horace has fun moments, but it is also somber where the realities of life come crashing down. It is…
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Truberbrook
Welcome to Truberbrook, a small town in some remote area of Germany. You are Hans Tannhauser, a professor on vacation. It isn’t as relaxing as he expects, though as something strange is happening in the town. Figure out what’s going on and save the day in this point-and-click adventure! Special thanks to swaswj for the…
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Broken Age
Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure with a great, colorful art style and memorable characters. The story centers around two characters, Shay and Vella. It isn’t immediately apparent how their stories intersect since Shay is out on a space ship while Vella is in some quaint little town around 1850’s in technology. There is quite…
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Forgotton Anne
Take a trip through a strange world of forgotten things. Gosh, I almost wrote forgotton. Anyway, Forgotton Anne is a cinematic platformer all about the story. The entire thing is presented in a great, cartoon style. It’s like the cartoon’s of the nineties, only you get to play through it! Find it on Steam. Forgotton…
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Machinarium
A short and stylish point-and-click game where you take a little robot through the city to save the day. Machinarium has style and charm. You play as a robot, officially named Josef, I think, but that’s not revealed within the story. He gets thrown out into the trash and you must help him back into…
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the latest installment of the new Tomb Raider starring a younger Lara Croft. She’s on a determined mission to stop Trinity, almost to the point of being her only focus in life. To do that, she’s taking ancient artifacts before the enemy does to stop them from using the…