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Strangeland - Review in 3 Minutes

In this 3 Minute Review, The Escapist's Jesse Galena covers Strangeland, a dark point-and-click adventure from Wormwood Studios, the team behind Primordia. I have a phobia of creepy carnivals. There's only so much time each week to check o...

 
 
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Backbone brings its anthro-noir mysteries to PC next month

For those who like their grizzled, hard-boiled, detective fiction a little on the fuzzy side, you're in luck, as publisher Raw Fury has finally offered up a street date for its anthropomorphic noir adventure, Backbone, which will raise the ...

 
 
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale will color your world June 10

Publisher Finji has announced that Greg Lobanov's cheerful Chicory: A Colorful Tale is finally ready to open its big box o' paints. The watercolor-based fantasy adventure will launch on PC and PlayStation platforms on June 10, a mere fortni...

 
 
 
 
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Tinytopia is a miniature city-builder with zany levels

We've built and run virtual cities as omnipotent mayors before, but not quite like this. In MeNic Games and Mastiff's PC city-builder Tinytopia, we're working with wobbly miniatures in precarious places. The game is less of a typical data-...

 
 
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The Wild at Heart - Review in 3 Minutes

In this 3 Minute Review, The Escapist's KC Nwosu covers The Wild at Heart, a stylish indie adventure with Pikmin-like creature commanding. I've had my fingers crossed for this game for some time. There's only so much time each week to chec...

 
 
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Resident Evil Village returns to the top of the UK Charts

Resident Evil Village is back in the number one spot of the UK Charts. Capcom's horror sequel clambered over Electronic Arts' Mass Effect Legendary Edition and also held off Nintendo's cartoony social title Miitopia in order to claim the pr...

 
 
 
 
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Of Bird and Cage - Review in 3 Minutes

In this 3 Minute Review, The Escapist's Will Cruz covers Of Bird and Cage, a metal album meets adventure game from Capricia Productions. It really has to be seen — and heard — to be believed. There's only so much time each week...

 
 
 
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Essays on Empathy - Review in 3 Minutes

In this 3 Minute Review, The Escapist's Amy Campbell covers Essays on Empathy, a narrative adventure game compilation with "offbeat tales" from Deconstructeam and Devolver Digital. It's out on Steam. There's only so much time each week to ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hades for PS4 listed on the Korean Ratings Board

The greatest spoiler organization on the planet, The Game Rating and Administration of Korea, are at it again. As spotted by eagle-eyed Resetera users, the board has released a new listing that appears to show Supergiant Giant's much-loved ...

 
 
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Huntdown for Steam is slicker and sicker than ever before

[Update: Huntdown is now live on Steam, early purchases will bag a 20% price discount.] There's no denying 2020 was an explosive year for video games. But among the mega-bucks, mega-marketed, mega-sellers of the industry, smaller titles wer...

 
 
 
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Layers of Fear 2 will have you shocking your Switch next week

The horror aficionados at Bloober Team are at it again, having announced a release date for the Switch port of spooky sequel Layers of Fear 2. The nightmarish first-person adventure will arrive on the Nintendo platform on May 20, following ...

 
 
 
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Call of the Sea sets sail on PlayStation platforms today

Anyone fancying a spot of sun, sea, surf, and... sinisterness is in luck, as today will see publisher Raw Fury launch the PlayStation port of its Lovecraft-inspired graphic adventure Call of the Sea, following on from its previous release o...

 
 
 
 




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Whispering Willow

Had a blast with SF6 last night! Lost a But learned a fair bit about Had a great number of fights with a Jamie player, who I also want to Also JP is a

 
Exber

#28 Game beaten in 2023 is: Being the movie one of my favorites of all time, I wanted to try this My first GTA like experience and one I had fun with, just like my brother did years ago when I helped him finish Loved the 4/5

 
ChronoLynxx

Happy its Friday! Short week seemed to drag but excited for this This weeks TGIF is up over in the blogs! Come say hi and let us know how your week went along with all your weekend plans!

 
Neronium

Guess whos bank double charged him when he paid his rent cause of a glitch with Now I am more than broke, I am Super Broke! (Overdrafted 100 cause of these shenanigans)

 
taterchimp

ZOMBIE AHOGADA: crispy carnitas, jack cheese, guacamole, pickled jalapeño, lime crema; in a tomato-chile broth and topped with crispy pickled red onion Sure to piss of traditionalists, but man, Im

 
Anthony Marzano

Back on dat

 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Played some Octopath 2 as the Thief girl and its fun but yeah the random battle system just I wish these games would do what Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass It has random battles but red alert comes up, press button within 2 seconds no

 
Cathedral

Just saw an ad for the Limited Edition Budweiser Harley-Davidson Not only is it a hilarious overcorrection to appeal to the hard right, its also a direct promotion for drinking and operating a motor

 
Seymour

I just ordered this

 
zatoseyes

Gonna go to work and hit myself with a mallet every time I think I should buy SF6 because those are thoughts of a FOMO I got too much other stuff to play right

 
 

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