Styx: Master of Shadows, from Cyanide Studio, feels at odds with itself. It’s a stealth game that tries to court two different schools of stealth design: the modern open-ended approach and the classic rigidness of trial and error. For a while, it strikes a fine balance between the two, giving you plenty of room to…
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo rebounds onto the scene with plenty of charm and clever gameplay, much like the games that came before it.
Though the demo didn’t last long, Link’s Awakening’s looking like a very faithful remake.
Few developers have as strong a track-record with downloadable content as From Software. Each of the expansions they’ve released for their games from Dark Souls onward have been spectacular, building on the core experience and further refining it. They almost always end up being some of the best parts of those games and Bloodborne is…
Valkyrie Elysium is the latest game in a beloved RPG series and is a confoundingly bland hack and slasher.
Call of Cthulhu has been adapted to videogames many times over the years and in many forms. From first-person horror games to point-and-click adventures, developers have been mining the Call of Cthulhu depths for a while. Cyanide Studio is the next one to take a crack at it, this one being a first-person horror game/investigation…
FromSoftware’s multiplayer spin-off of Elden Ring is a fun surprise that works better than expected.
Imagine climbing to the top of a tall tower, studded with Lego bricks. Upon finally reaching the top, you find a small Lego pig with wings and immediately hop on and ride it off the tower and into the town square, where a large cannon is conveniently waiting for you to load it in and…
A Souls-like without stamina seems antithetical to the entire genre, but in Thymesia’s case, it works.
For as much as we can say about high definition re-releases of video games over the last few years, for how easy a cash-in they can be or giving out judgment in regards to their quality, there’s one fact that can’t be denied: a great game from years ago can still be a great game…
