The Thaumaturge Review
It’s Time to Fight Your Inner Demons…Taking place in 1905- pre World War I Warsaw, Poland, The Thaumaturge thrusts you into the role of Wiktor Szulski- a man battling his own inner demons, as well as the demons of others. In a beautiful marriage of history and fantasy, Fool's Theory has brought a unique Isometric RPGs to the table, full of physical, emotional and mental conflict. While far from perfect, The Thaumaturge brings detective work, difficult moral choices, and gorgeous storytelling together, making for some ultimately creative and rewarding game play. Our main protagonist Wiktor Szulski is gifted with the powers
The Planet Crafter Review
What A Rough Landing...Finding yourself stranded on a dusty, barren, uninhabitable planet littered with slews of raw resources-you’ve got quite the task at hand. Terraform this inhospitable place you now get to call “home”, or you’re going to die trying. After all- you’ve got no-where else to go, and no other choice, Convict. Time to earn your freedom…Welcome home.After enduring a rather rough landing, start gathering all you can-resources in raw form are plenty, and you’ve got quite a lot to do. A small blurb on your pod is just barely enough to drive the point home:This is your new home,
Your Journey of Survival Review
Your Journey of Survival ReviewDeveloped and Published - Smartly Gophered GamesYour Journey of Survival is an open world, sandbox game, mixing together the best elements of FPS, Survival, and RPG games. Set in the year 2400, you awake in a world where everything is seemingly unknown and all of humanity & civilization must be rebuilt from the ground up.Where Dayz, Rust, and H1Z1 all meet together in one game. The only difference is that the graphics are amazingly beautiful.Embark on an epic journey across lush landscapes, with wild weather controls from Sunshine to heavy rain and storms.Build, eat, hunt and survive the harsh environments
Arcade Tycoon Review
Arcade Tycoon is a business management simulation that was released on Steam in 2021 (after some time in Early Access) and rereleased on Nintendo Switch in January of 2024. I recently tried out the Switch version.This game is centered around nostalgia. The pixel graphics with their isometric view and grid-based object placement give off the feel of some of the classic "Tycoon" games, and the background music has a retro quality that imitates old-school themes. Machines and other items available to acquire for your gaming center are full of gaming references in title and design, and the general look and feel
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