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The Binding of Isaac: A Postmortem
With the upcoming release of Rebirth, a look back on Edmund McMillen’s Freudian nightmare.
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Soul Fjord makes disco feel dead all over again
Remember when they brought Starsky and Hutch to big screens? 2004? Yeah.
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Depths of Fear: Knossos is an interactive B-movie
The labyrinth of ineffectual design choices.
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Cardinal Quest 2 simplifies the roguelike too much
Our friends in Berlin would be appalled.
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Heavy Bullets teaches personal finance with extreme prejudice
A penny saved is a bullet earned.
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Nova-111 is a turn-based RPG that happens in real-time. Wait, what?
Nova-111 looks like a valiant stab at solving the dilemma RPGs have faced ever since D&D hit the computer screen 30-some years ago: turn-based or real-time? Turn-based systems allow players sufficient time to strategize, but real-time just feels more alive. But it turns out you don’t have to commit
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Darkest Dungeon is probably the best-animated dungeon crawl ever
I’m not kidding, this game is gorgeous. You’ll watch the trailer halfway through wondering when you’ll get to the in-game shots and come to the epiphany that these are the in-game shots. Produced by Red Hook, Darkest Dungeon is billed as an old-school roguelike, but we’ve seen many of those. The rea
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The story behind the strange, loveable Crypt of the NecroDancer
One cannot simply mash things up.
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Risk of Rain combines the bad action and bad RPG genres
Slight chance of boredom.
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Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God is a recipe for acquired tastes only
You’ll be sweating bullets.
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Nuclear Throne is as charming as the roguelike gets
Vlambeer does it again, by gum.
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The agony and the ecstasy of 868-Hack
Michael Brough’s latest treasure is a simulacrum of modern existence. It’s also hard as shit.