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Nate Crowley·May 30, 2019

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Vambrace has the art, sound and story direction of a top-flight RPG, bolted onto a badly designed roguelite.

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Graham Smith·May 30, 2019

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Void Bastards is ultimately not more than the sum of the parts I outlined 1400 words ago, but it’s worth rummaging through all the same. Just like yer da said about the bins, when he finally found those Euros.

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Katharine Castle·May 29, 2019

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SteamWorld Quest isn’t going to be the next Slay the Spire, and to be honest, die hard Spire-ites will probably find its one-and-done story a bit, well, restricting. But for card novices (which I count myself one of), it’s still a real charmer, no matter how sluggish it might get in those early hours.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Staff·May 29, 2019

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Ultimately, it’s the planets that make this game what it is. Worlds full of mysteries and anomalies. To me they are proof that there is still no substitute for handcrafting your virtual realms.

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Chan Khee Hoon·May 24, 2019

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It’s a pity that the game fails to take advantage of these analogies and delve into their immense potential. Instead, it’s too fixated on traditional jump scares to embrace the twisted, palpitating gut of its story about a flawed protagonist and his struggles with inner demons.

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Brendan Caldwell·May 23, 2019

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At its heart, Pathologic 2 is a frustrating game. Ten times more interesting than your average immersive sim (probably the genre it belongs), yet hundreds of times less inviting.

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Nic Reuben·May 21, 2019

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Thea 2 is interesting in a ‘may you live in interesting times’ sense. An imperfect thing that I can’t help but feel affectionate towards.

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Matthew Cox·May 21, 2019

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Observation is clever, but it’s also astoundingly dumb.

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Brendan Caldwell·May 21, 2019

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It feels a bit eager at times, a UI that is maybe too minimal and trusting. If your scrolling comes to rest on one of these days for even a short while, it’ll launch right into that day. There’s no clicking to confirm. But you eventually get used to this, discerning the day by the drum beats that accompany each drag of the mouse wheel.

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Nate Crowley·May 16, 2019

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This is the game Surviving Mars should have been in the first place.

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Denis Ryan·May 16, 2019

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It’s the best Total War game, the best historical strategy game released so far this year, and its stories are so compelling I’m as excited to read about other people’s anecdotes as I am to create more of my own.

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Brendan Caldwell·May 14, 2019

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With that in mind (among other crimes) it would be easy to see him as the charlatan he is said to be by his enemies. But there are also moments that reveal a more complicated and conflicted man. In a short game full of haughty songs and jokes about willies, that’s an impressive achievement.

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Matt Cox·May 14, 2019

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The parts I like far outweigh the parts I don’t. I’ve got my weirdo NPCs, my Ark hunting, my Whoopinkoffs and Dimbledicks. I’ve found every Ark, now, but I still plan on gambolling between side activities. I still want to explore, even though I wish I was exploring a world that had been less generically destroyed.

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Alice Bell·May 13, 2019

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I’ve been very positive about A Plague Tale so far, and it is indeed a good game.

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Brendan Caldwell·May 10, 2019

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If you don’t mind button bashing through some brawls, just to see more of these good fellas solving bad problems with their strong fists and stern words, Yakuza Kiwami 2 is ready, once again, to get ridiculous.