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Balatro (PC) Review

Alexx Aplin — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:00:54 +0000

I love a good bit of Poker every now and then. I’m not exactly a gambler, but there was a time when I enjoyed visiting friends for Poker night. LocalThunk’s Balatro simulates the idea of Poker, mixing it with something else I enjoy, Rogue-likes. As a result, you get a very strategic, sometimes infuriating experience. Balatro looks complicated but is actually fairly simple. Each round of Balatro…

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The Rise of the Golden Idol to get 4 DLCs

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:00:13 +0000

One of the best puzzle games of the last few years, alongside Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn, has to be Color Gray Games’ The Case of the Golden Idol. If I’d played it sooner, I might have even made it my game of the year if I was particularly annoyed at Elden Ring that day. Well, this week the sequel releases, in fact, it is tomorrow. However, Color Gray Games has provided an update on what…

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The Entropy Centre (PC) Review

Matthew Lomas — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:00:30 +0000

When I first saw the trailer for The Entropy Centre, it looked as though it would be an interesting puzzle game that might have some difficult levels that would be reminiscent of the Portal games. After playing it for over three hours, I can clearly say that The Entropy Centre is the greatest puzzle adventure game since Portal 2! This doesn’t solely come from the difficult puzzles that are…

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Mortal Shell’s PS5 & Xbox Series X/S Editions Coming Soon

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:00:04 +0000

If my comments on Monday during the Prime Gaming article weren’t clear enough, I love a good Souls-like. It was only four months ago on our YouTube channel that I reviewed Dark Souls 3, which I only bothered to start up again since reviewing Cold Symmetry’s Mortal Shell. A similar idea to the From Software developed games about living in Newcastle, Mortal Shell (early-on) went a bit more Dark…

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Mortal Shell (Xbox One) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:00:01 +0000

You’d think, for being such a submissive for Dark Souls and its ilk, I’d have known about Mortal Shell as soon as it was announced. However, as I assume most were, I was looking at it with bleary and tempered eyes thinking that we’re riding this rollercoaster once again. So yes, it is a Dark Souls-clone with possibly the most faithful attempt at cloning. Now, the problem with cloning…

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Souls-like Mortal Shell Gets Release

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:00:33 +0000

I’m sure I’m not alone, but every time I see a new Souls-like getting a trailer, I get that moment of “and there goes another day of work.” Yes, I like many others love them and eat them like breakfast cereal. Mortal Shell was announced back in April, on (oddly enough) April 1st, bringing all that is usual in an independent Souls-like. Let the vague plot, dark fade-ins, and fade-outs…

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