HIGH N-Night is the Greatest. Mission. Ever. Recruiting the Coffee Beans is amazing.
LOW Important mechanics are not well-explained to new players. A few glitches.
WTF Where did my plot critical items go? I don’t remember selling them!
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Speedonauts Video Review
HIGH Unique atmosphere and concept.
LOW Controls feel clunky and unresponsive.
WTF The level editor.
Sunblaze Preview
Meet Josie. She’s training to be the world’s next great superhero — Sunblaze. Her father, a retired hero who protected the world, built a training simulator to prepare her for the dangers ahead. When a session starts to go wrong, Josie will need to quickly adapt in order to survive.
Steam Game Festival – February 2021
The Steam Game Festival is here and there are tons of demos for people to sample. Our brave staffers waded hip-deep and chose a handful of picks — some were great, and others maybe not so much. What did they choose out of the hundreds available, and what did they think of their selections?
Infliction: Extended Cut Review
Home Is Where The Horror Is
HIGH Fantastic horror that still feels grounded.
LOW The final ‘random chance’ mission
WTF Why is this morgue worker naked?
This Is Not A Review: Heliborne
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Heliborne, developed by JetCat Games and published by Klabater.
Skipper Review
Pathways For Your Neural Pathways
HIGH Beautifully simplistic visuals.
LOW No colorblind options.
WTF It’s cubes and cubes and cubes.
Astral Traveler Review
The Fast And The Frustrating
HIGH Zooming around the outside of the pipe levels
LOW The inaccurate, frustrating controls
WTF There are flying sections but the spaceship crashes when it flies off a track?
Dead Cells Preview
Stop me if you’ve heard this before — a 2D platformer borrowing from Metroid and Castlevania which also has roguelike elements just hit Steam Early Access. This time, though, the game already feels finished, and has been nearly impossible to put down for the past week. Dead Cells manages to go beyond genre pastiche and freshens up one of the most crowded spaces in gaming. It’s well worth checking out even in its “unfinished” state.
Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel Review
An Unnecessary Dessert
HIGH The weapon acquired from the final boss is a blast to use.
LOW The new area feels disconnected from the main game.
WTF So this is Priscilla, Maria, and a Cleric Beast all at once. Got it.
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