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Ball x Pit is the Vampire Survivors/Breakout Mash-Up That Proves Mounting Strength Doesn't Mean Diminished Weakness

Ball x Pit is the Vampire Survivors/Breakout Mash-Up That Proves Mounting Strength Doesn't Mean Diminished Weakness

Unlike a lot of people, I was fairly late to getting all-but-lost in the intensely-addictive, intensly-moreish cycle of "one more go, then I'll quit I swear" that was (and most likely still is) Vampire Survivors. A game that, in the years following, has carved out a

Öoo, Like ElecHead Before It, Champions The Genius of Visual Language Through Minimalism

Öoo, Like ElecHead Before It, Champions The Genius of Visual Language Through Minimalism

"Öoo" – the name of Japanese developer Nama Takahashi follow-up to the brilliantly-minimal yet cleverly-constructed puzzle-platformer ElecHead. But also the first sound one made upon discovery that said game now has a public demo. Of which you can check out for the oh-so simple cost of around fifteen to

Review: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo

Review: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo

Player-curated challenge and a novel, versatile twist to combat helps Pocket Trap's yo-yo themed adventure land firmly in the realm of entertaining, let alone evocatively nostalgic. Developer Pocket Trap clearly have a fondness for the Game Boy Advance and its associative period of handheld gaming. You needn'

CloverPit's Premise, While Familiar, Nonetheless Stirs Up A Moreishly Risk-Reward Loop

CloverPit's Premise, While Familiar, Nonetheless Stirs Up A Moreishly Risk-Reward Loop

When I was younger (for clarity, I'm talking pre-double figures here), one of my most prized toys/gadgets was this miniature slot machine. Small, but technically functional in all the ways a fully-fledged, actual device of its sort would be. Coins must be inserted to function, a lever

Review: Labyrinth of the Demon King

Review: Labyrinth of the Demon King

Combining the restrictiveness of first-person dungeon-crawling, with the psychological dread of early 3D survival-horror greatest strides, solo developer J. R. Hudepohl pulls no punches with a game that is unforgiving, unrelenting but surprisingly gripping as a result. In a similar way to that of the 8-bit era of games, though

Introducing...Ctrlr

Introducing...Ctrlr

Deciding how best to start this introductory piece has, no joke, probably been one of the hardest things to wrap my head around these past three months. More difficult than getting an actual web page up-and-running – more difficult even, than having to salvage what was lost to me as a