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Circular platformer Circa Infinity is absolutely mesmerizing
Hypnotizing new game will make you trippy, very trippy
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Tough Love Machine: a puzzle of 8-bit companionship
Like relationships themselves, representing the struggles of love in a digital format can be difficult. Andrew Morrish does just that in his newest game, Tough Love Machine.Tough Love Machine offers up a simple premise: unite two hearts. Like so many puzzle games before it, in execution this becomes
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Pixels is the worst
The most old-school thing in PIXELS is the misogyny.
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A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
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Manifesting destiny with Westerado: Double Barreled
A game more Blazing Saddles than Blood Meridian.
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Therefore promises "interactive philosophy," dreamy pixel art
What’s initially so captivating about Therefore is how the music and art style blends together. Composer Sergio Cuesta’s incidental piano score plays with atonality in a way that’s reminiscent of the impressionist compositions of Claude Debussy, or Erik Satie: simple and pretty, but slightly hauntin
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Crossing Souls wants to make you feel like a kid again
A sweet, scary ode to childhood.
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A look at Hyper Light Drifter, one of 2015’s most beautiful games
Why does it look so great? Short answer: Miyazaki.
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The Deer God makes you relate to hunter and hunted
Finding karma deep in nature.
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Street Art and the 8-Bit Cool
The 8-bit aesthetic is not a fast-track to relevance.
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Woah Dave! is simple, compulsive and sinister
The arcade as muse.
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Eitr’s trailer recalls the pitch-black world of Diablo II
The Gothic masterpiece that was Diablo II, the one that I willingly gave away much of my youth to, was perhaps most notable because of its atmosphere. It was a shadowy world, brown lands fading into a black background, full of occult sacrifices, lo-fi gore and legions of grotesque demons. Horror loo