Esoteric Ebb Leans Into Weirdness and Wins Big
With strong writing, colorful fantasy, internal stat debates and a refreshing willingness to let failures be fun, Esoteric Ebb stands out as one of the strangest and most charming RPGs in recent memory. Role-players looking for something genuinely different should take this adventure for a spin.
Blue Prince Provides an Amazing Puzzle Palace That Rebuilds Itself Every Night
Step into a shifting mansion filled with secrets, strategy and just enough chaos to keep you guessing. Blue Prince blends mystery, exploration and puzzle-solving into an endlessly replayable experience where the walls themselves conspire to make you earn your crown.
Save State Is Collecting and Creating Monsters in Cassette Beasts
This week Save State columnist Vincent Mahoney has a great time with Cassette Beasts, an interesting title that combines elements of Digimon and Pokemon with monster collecting, turn-based battles, and the creation of unique and powerful new monsters through a fusion system.
Norco Offers a Haunting and Complex Sci-fi Adventure
Norco presents a distinctively sci-fi look at a fairly dark future. Set in and around Norco, Louisiana, it weaves its haunting narrative through the eyes of a young person who recently came back home following the death of their mother. This is not an experience that adventure gamers will want to miss.
Kingdom Two Crowns: Dead Lands Announces Bloodstained Crossover Event
Raw Fury has revealed Kingdom Two Crowns: Dead Lands, a free new update for the hit micro-strategy game featuring content inspired by and in collaboration with the gothic horror action-RPG Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. A dark and completely new setting that will change how you rule your Kingdom, Dead Lands will be available on […]
Farm, Marry and Kill in Upcoming Atomicrops Game
Raw Fury and indie developer Bird Bath Games have revealed that on May 28, Atomicrops will come to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 for the very first time, as well as officially launch out of early access on PC via the Epic Games Store. All content and improvements added to the PC version […]
Time Waster Becomes Modern Gamer with GoNNER
This week we launch the inaugural Modern Gamer column with brand new GiN Host Melissa Pierce. She’ll be taking over the Time Waster slot on Saturdays. First up, a game that has slowly expanded to every single gaming platform, the odd but good GoNNER.
Night Call Delivers Intense Noir Ambience
Set in the dark streets of Paris and seen through the rainy windows of a busy night shift taxi, you play a driver with a silver tongue in the Noir-like adventure Night Call. Talk to your passengers. Observe the world around you. And don’t get framed for your own attempted murder.
Let’s Play Kingdom: New Lands
We are taking a look at Kingdom: New Lands this week, a new side scrolling strategy game from developer Noio and publisher Raw Fury. You read that right, it’s a side scrolling strategy game. While that might seem odd, the simple controls conceal a bevy of interesting and deadly strategic choices.