Roadwarden Review
Having enjoyed a fair amount of tabletop RPGs run through various systems and as a fan of text-based adventure games, I was excited to learn about Roadwarden, a text-based adventure game which plays very much like a single-player tabletop RPG campaign.Released by Moral Anxiety Studio in September of 2022, Roadwarden is set in a fantasy world full of political complexities and environmental dangers. As the titular roadwarden, newly assigned to patrol the northern peninsula, your job is to assure the safety of the roads and provide contact between isolated villages while also working to achieve the goals of your employers—merchants of
The Descent Review
Not to be confused with the acclaimed horror movie released in 2005, The Descent is a trip down a mysterious mine riddled with death, disappearances, and other occurrences that the authorities can’t quite grasp. As an investigator, you go down the mine and try to reach the literal bottom of the mystery in this walking horror sim, a decent attempt at the genre but one that has the quirky habit of throwing scares at you to make sure that you didn’t fall asleep in the meantime. It’s extremely slow-paced, rigid in design, and gets tiresome before its short narrative is over.A
Micegard Review
Micegard is a short adventure game in which you control a mouse, or multiple mice, to save their village from the frogs. Sounds like a fever dream, but the game surprised me with how straight forward it was. And by the way, when I say it's short, I mean really short - it took me 100 minutes to do everything in the game, so you're not really buying a game to grind or play long term. It's a short story you can complete in one sitting, and there's nothing wrong with that.The gameplay is simple, but effective enough so it doesn't
Soul Tolerance: Prologue Review
Soul Tolerance ReviewDeveloper and Publisher - Chaosmonger Studio(Note: This is the Prologue version)In a world where artificial intelligence is all that remains, be a robo-detective, and investigate a mind-bending case.Explore a futuristic Japan brought to life in detailed voxel art, and uncover philosophical lore through tons of characters. Become AI and dive into the mystery of consciousness.The developer behind "Three Minutes to Eight" and based in Estonia, they bring you their latest game "Soul Tolerance"Humans have long been extinct, for around 150 years! But that does not repel the fact that AI is any better in this world either.War, oppression, and worker rights are
The Invincible Review
Not everything everywhere is for us. This is the main motto of the game The Invincible by Starward Industries, based on a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. The game sets you in the shoes of Dr. Yasna, who wakes up on a deserted planet with no way to contact others and has to figure out what happened to herself, her colleagues and who are the real friends and foes in this mystery.Dr. Yasna is an astrobiologist, a member of a team of scientists who were returning home from a long mission in space. On their way, they made a stop