Category: VG Reviews
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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…
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Monster Hunter World
This is my foray into the world of Monster Hunter. World. This game is all about hunting giant monsters with giant weapons to make better gear to hunt even larger monsters. Thrown into the mix is a bunch of annoying design decisions that have little purpose. The play of the game is fantastic, though, and…
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Kingdom: New Lands
Kingdom is all about starting a kingdom. Of course. Though not a grand one. The one your starting is under attack and must start from a bunch of tents. You must get money. Build walls. Get troops to defend. Or, as the game’s main tutorial says, Build. Expand. Defend. Find it on Steam. Also, special…
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Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Video Game
Are you ready to rock? There are few musical games, and this one starts off with a song. Karmaflow is a platformer set in strange, desolate worlds. You are the Karmakeeper or just the Keeper, and it is up to you to decide the fate of the worlds. Everything is told through bombastic awesome music.…