Putting Your Typing Skills to an Arcade Style Test With Outshine
This week Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill lets her fingers do the fighting in the typing trainer Outshine. In the game, players will be typing out words in order to launch missiles, shield their character and challenge endless sci-fi landscapes. And surprisingly, it’s actually G-R-E-A-T F-U-N.
Enjoying The Battle of Polytopia on the Nintendo Switch
Heaps of praise have landed on the pixel-based game The Battle of Polytopia since it launched, and for good reason. This is everything gamers want in a 4X strategy title. Now, it lands on the Nintendo Switch and plays every bit as good as on other platforms.
Pounce Into a Great Platforming Adventure With Catmaze
Catmaze is a really interesting mashup of genres that combine into a delightful game. It’s partially a Metroidvania type platformer. It’s steeped in Slavic myths. And it has a really cool witch and two very cute cats with mythical powers. You don’t want to miss this one.
Blast Through Colorful Passages and Procedurally-Generated Creations in Maze Blaze
Maze Blaze is an arcade shooter where players fight swarms of enemies while solving procedurally-generated maze levels that are dripping in neon lights and brilliant special effects. Those who miss old-school arcade action will find a lot to enjoy in these dazzling mazes.
All Aboard for Adorable and Peaceful Puzzler Experiences With Railbound
Anyone looking for a relaxing puzzle adventure involving adorable trains and railroad type puzzles will enjoy Railbound, a title that starts off extremely easy and then ramps up the challenge as you play.
A Walk Through the Forest of Witch Strandings
Witch Strandings is a unique combination of a video game walking type simulation and an adventure with a heavy emphasis on community building. This is not a title that everyone will enjoy, but for those who like the stranding-type genre, it offers a compelling journey.
The Fun Builds Brick by Brick in LEGO Bricktales
Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill is a LEGO fanatic who always has a few unfinished LEGO projects scattered around her office. So, she was very happy with LEGO Bricktales, which ditches the traditional action LEGO RPG format for one that focuses on building and creativity.
Puzzle Platforming Meets Combat Adventure in the Aesthetically Appealing Jade Order
At its heart, Jade Order is a puzzler where players need to figure out how to best clear a board of bad guys as they fight the Ashen Plague through the ruins of a scorched land. You do this in tactical combat, which makes Jade Order both fast-paced and exciting.
Lovecraftian Mythos Lives Again in the Visual Novel Last Threshold
Marie Brownhill, our Modern Gamer columnist, continues to look at spooky and seasonal titles. This week, she dives into the Lovecraft inspired madness of Last Threshold, a visual novel that has a soundtrack driven atmosphere and is dripping in hand-painted haunting backgrounds.
Witchy Life Story Casts Its Amusing Autumnal Spell Just in Time for Halloween
Just in time for the fall season, the cozy and relaxing visual novel/witchcraft simulator Witchy Life Story has arrived on Steam. A young witch has been exiled to a town by her grandmother, and you as the player must help her make the town’s harvest festival a success in order for her to be allowed to continue with her witch’s training.