Dead Spin preview: Slot machine horror with a nasty little hook
Sometimes a game sells itself on the vibe before anything else. Dead Spin is one of those games. Before you even get into the actual mechanics, it already has a grip on you just through the atmosphere. The whole thing has that grimy late-90s, early-2000s horror game feel to it, like you have somehow stumbled […]
Arcadian Days preview: Unfinished, beautiful, and quietly fascinating
Some games grab you with action. This one does it with atmosphere. Arcadian Days is not the sort of game that throws a hundred systems at you and begs for attention. Instead, it does something far simpler and, in its own way, far harder. It asks you to slow down, look around, and actually take […]
One Rotten Oath review: Stylish rot, shaky shooting
Some games grab you before you have even properly started them. One Rotten Oath is one of those games. The look of it alone is enough to make you stop and pay attention. You do not see many games built like this, with those rotoscoped characters cut into grim 3D spaces, all stitched together into […]
Dead Format review: A clever slice of VHS horror
There is something instantly appealing about Dead Format before you even really get stuck in. Maybe it is the 1990s Scotland setting. Maybe it is the idea of a cursed VHS format called GHL, short for Ghoul. Maybe it is just the fact that “Video Ghastlies” sounds like exactly the kind of thing I would […]
Mewgenics review: Tactical cat chaos never felt so good
A good friend once introduced me to The Binding of Isaac. I started off watching him stream it on Twitch before eventually taking the plunge myself and disappearing into the horrors beneath Mum’s house. It was grotesque, chaotic, clever, and completely unlike anything else I had played at the time. So when I found out […]