There Came An Echo Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
There Came An Echo Review   It would seem that strategy games are hip again these days, what with all the interesting releases that pop up every once in a while on Steam. There was Etherium, we’ll be playing Gratuitous Space Battles 2 soon and now we have the chance to check out the long-awaited There Came An Echo. While it certainly is a real-time strategy, it chooses to focus on storyline an...[Read More]
Afterfall Reconquest Episode One Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Afterfall Reconquest Episode One Review   Three years ago, in 2011, a survival horror game with psychological themes was released. It was the Afterfall Insanity – a game which the critics weren’t particularly fond of, even though some gamers liked it very much. I was among them, too. It was a tale of a person going mad and causing horrendous amounts of damage to the people he cared about alo...[Read More]
HAND OF FATE REVIEW
Hand Of Fate from Australian developer Defiant Development is a tough game to put into any one genre, as it holds deck building elements of games like Magic The Gathering, and RPG elements and a combat style something like Shadow Of Mordor, which sounds complicated, but in fact is so well amalgamated it comes together beautifully. It is very much a game within a game as you are dealt cards while c...[Read More]
GRATUITOUS SPACE BATTLES 2 PREVIEW
How does one create a strategy game that doesn’t require you to multitask at six battlefields at once while trying not to fail your mission miserably? Well, one way to go about the given task is to remove the control from the player altogether, and focus instead on pre-battle strategizing and careful unit management. Gratuitous Space Battles was one such game, and was met with considerable success...[Read More]
ScreamRide Demo Impressions | MOUSE n JOYPAD
ScreamRide Demo Impressions   Before having played the demo of ScreamRide, I really didn’t think this kind of game was for me, given that it was described as a “construction and management simulatorâ€. I hadn’t watched any trailers or gameplay videos, and had only briefly read the game’s description on Wikipedia, so I went into this with little to no bias and a fresh set of eyes. To my ...[Read More]
BLUE ESTATE REVIEW
When I first heard I would be reviewing Blue Estate, an on the rails shooter from HESAW, I immediately thought of Rambo The Video Game and the terrible time I had playing it. That game should be given to prisoners to play as part of their daily punishment, for me it was definitely something I had no desire to repeat. So, I was sceptical to say the least going into Blue Estate. Don’t get me wrong, ...[Read More]
Harold Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Harold Review   Harold seems like a rehash of certain games resembling Bit Trip Runner or Geometry Dash, but I was a little surprised to what the game had to offer. The hand-drawn animations and inspirational music score alone gives you a feeling of being part of an animated film. I thought the game mechanics would be generic, like Bit Trip Runner, by having to memorize certain patterns coming a...[Read More]
THE ESCAPISTS REVIEW
It may come as a surprise to many of you but I’ve never done hard time, and while I have watched The Shawshank Redemption a dozen times I can’t say that I have ever given much thought as to how I would escape a prison, I mean surely there would be a guard to bribe or a laundry tuck to stow away in……. In Mouldy Toof Studios’ “The Escapists” you have one easy sounding task. Escape from prison. That’...[Read More]
Neverwinter Beta Impressions | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Neverwinter Beta Impressions   Recently I spent a few days in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Neverwinter during the closed Beta stage on Xbox One. Neverwinter is an MMO that is coming to Xbox One as a free to play title from Arc Games, and having spent some hours exploring this world I can honestly say the developers are putting a lot of work into the console version of this RPG. As with al...[Read More]
Aerena: Masters Edition Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Aerena: Masters Edition Review   Upon its original release a while back, Aerena couldn’t have struck a chord with me. There’s only a handful of free-to-play games I like and I usually abhor the notion of kicking off another one such title. This has much to do with the fact that most F2P games require the player to grind some kind of resource a significant amount of time before being able to ...[Read More]
Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic Review   Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic, developed by The Bitfather, is a 2-D, side-scrolling, rogue-like, adventure game with witty dialogue and old-school, RPG elements. The game features 30 playable characters to unlock, a handful of achievements, and endless, class combinations giving the player countless amounts of replay value. All things to consider, the game is...[Read More]
Decay: The Mare Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Decay: The Mare Review   I’ve been swamped by adventure games of all kinds these last few days. It’s not a bad thing either, to ditch the shooters and RPGs for a little while, and play games whose sole focus is to tell you a story. Gameplay takes a backseat in adventures to develop characters, settings, and storylines instead. In Decay: The Mare – characters are few and far between, but it...[Read More]