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Jordan Helm

Crawling Out of One Slot-Machine Roguelike Hole...and Into Another with Slots & Daggers

Crawling Out of One Slot-Machine Roguelike Hole...and Into Another with Slots & Daggers

"Oh you thought you'd outwitted us and managed to escape?" publisher Future Friends Games, I suspect, muttered with gleeful intent (though admittedly have zero proof to validate). "Fool! There was never just one" If you're at this very moment getting the inkling

Review: CloverPit

Review: CloverPit

Fiendish addiction paves the way to a slot-machine roguelike jam-packed with clever mechanics, ample dopamine hits and just the right assortment of small details to appreciate. With CloverPit, Panik Arcade have delivered a condensed, but mightily impressive package. Assumable and obvious this might b to anyone else, I have to

What It Lacks in Surprise, Lumines Arise Proves Enhance's Synergistic Spectacle Still Has Staying Power

What It Lacks in Surprise, Lumines Arise Proves Enhance's Synergistic Spectacle Still Has Staying Power

It happens to all of us; every now and again, a game releases that in no time at all, finds itself neatly slotted into a specific category of games. A category whose name/title/identifier may vary from person to person, but whose common factor can be surmised by the

Review: Öoo

Review: Öoo

Charming style, delightfully revelatory puzzles and one of the best executions of slowly revealing key mechanics to its players. Developer Nama Takahashi has done it yet again: Öoo is pure, puzzle-platforming bliss. I still remember that first time, just over four years ago, I came upon developer Nama Takahashi and

Review: Cipher Zero

Review: Cipher Zero

A plentiful number of interesting rules, wrapped around an elegantly minimalist aesthetic, makes Cipher Zero an easy recommendation for logic-tinkering, puzzle fans. Its communication isn't flawless, but its distilling puzzle's purest form to a couple of inputs, is impressive all the same. Part of the joy

Review: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

Review: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

Despite an overburdening start – brimming with systems and mechanics to grasp – and momentary technical issues, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' extensive build depth and nods to Soulslikes' subtler qualities, make it a pleasant if not entirely revolutionary take on the genre. While most conversations will often revolve around the implementation

In Silksong's Absence, Constance Could Very Well Be The Game to Fill That Hollow-like Void

In Silksong's Absence, Constance Could Very Well Be The Game to Fill That Hollow-like Void

No matter the genre, no matter the size and stature of that which is revered so, whenever a game releases that attracts so much of both a critical and cultural zeitgeist, sooner or later there are bound to be ample imitators whose clear (some might say, blatant) love and admiration