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Nightingale Preview – Strong Foundation, Weak Landing

Nightingale had a bit of a crash landing at first, and players were rightfully upset at the state in which the game was released. Writing this preview after a few weeks and already several patches to the game allowed me to get an overall sm...

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Millennia Preview: The Future Of Grand Strategy?

Settling soon onto PC comes Millennia. A grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, creators of hit games such as Hearts Of Iron IV and Crusader Kings III. In this upcoming title you will lead your people through history to the modern age....

Unicorn Overlord Demo Preview | A Fairy Tale Tactics Game Brimming With Potential

Unicorn Overlord Demo Preview | A Fairy Tale Tactics Game Brimming With Potential

A demo for Unicorn Overlord, the upcoming tactical RPG by Vanillaware, recently went live, giving players access to a substantial portion of the game for free before the game's full launch in early March. This demo brilliantly showcases man...

Night Stones Preview A Promising Adventure

Night Stones Preview: A Promising Adventure

The demo of Night Stones gives us a good look at a promising upcoming adventure RPG, set to fully release in April 2024. The Night Stones demo gives us a taste of what to expect, including exploration and combat. I like open world RPG adven...

The MS Cornelia II Incident Preview An Intriguing Point & Click Mystery

The M/S Cornelia II Incident Preview: An Intriguing Point & Click Mystery

The M/S Cornelia II Incident may initially seem like any other amnesiac point & click adventure. However, as you'll discover in this preview, there's more to The M/S Cornelia II Incident than you may think. It’s been a while since...

Loose Change Preview: The Latest Chapter In Realms of Peril & Glory's Liminal London Series

Loose Change Preview: The Latest Chapter In Realms of Peril & Glory’s Liminal London Series

Actual Play podcast, Realms of Peril & Glory are currently releasing a new season of their Liminal London Series: Loose Change. This new season continues the story of a small group of misfits, caught between the City of London as we kno...

Spring in Summer Preview: A Slice of Cozy Adventure

The demo of Spring in Summer proves that this game is one to look out for, incorporating mystery and choose-your-own-adventure elements, with coziness added to provide an entertaining yet easy-going experience. For me, detective games can b...

Realms of Peril & Glory: A New Year of Incredible Actual Play

Realms of Peril & Glory: A New Year of Incredible Actual Play

Realm of Peril & Glory is an Actual Play Podcast that use TTRPGs to tell epic stories and share the experience of playing a good game with friends. I caught up with Realms' producer, Zack Fortais-Gomm to discuss what goes into creating ...

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Toree Saturn Preview: A Potential High Flyer?

Coming soon to PC speeds Toree Saturn. In this latest adventure in the Toree series you must guide pint-sized bird to the level exit as fast as possible. Avoiding all the pitfalls, enemies, and large gaps in your way. But is it any good or ...

Palworld Preview - The Turducken Of Games (Xbox Series X/S)

Palworld Preview – The Turducken Of Games (Xbox Series X/S)

There's a lot to say when it comes to the new gaming phenomena, Palworld. An action-adventure survival game following in the vein of Pokemon, it's caused quite a bit of controversy since its release. But, let's first focus on the game itsel...

Enshrouded Preview | Embervale Unveiled

Enshrouded Preview | Embervale Unveiled

Early-access Enshrouded previews a survival ARPG set in a lively, voxel-enabled environment where the player will fight, forge, and forage across the mountains, deserts, and trenches of an open-world. An early-access of the game on PC rende...

Medieval Machines Builder First Siege Preview: A Sim of Siegecraft (PC)

War is nothing new to gamers. From the front lines to the commander's post, we've played it all. Except, perhaps, for the engineers. Collect resources, craft parts, lash them together, and unleash mechanical hell upon your foes! But is ther...

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death Preview: The Roguelike Wild West

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death Preview: The Roguelike Wild West

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death combines first-person shooting with roguelike progression to create a fast-paced challenge. There are several ways to improve the challenge and upgrades keep the game interesting. It’s harder to learn than most r...

Vaudeville Preview: The AI Questioning To Nowhere

Vaudeville Preview: The AI Questioning To Nowhere

Vaudeville is a great idea on paper, letting you have a natural conversation with NPCs that feels like an actual investigation. However, the AI powering the NPCs makes you run in circles and it’s extremely difficult to have an actual conver...

Skull and Bones Impressions | Good for what it is (PS5)

Skull and Bones Impressions | Fair Winds and Following Seas (PS5)

Skull and Bones is an arcade-like depiction of piracy in the 17th century Indian Ocean Region. Ubisoft concluded another three day run of closed beta testing on December 18th, where players were given 6 hours to explore on a customized pira...

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Bun n’ Gun Preview: One Fun Bun

Bouncing onto PC comes Bun n' Gun, a 3D action platformer inspired by classic Sega games from the 32-Bit era. Help Bun track down and capture a band of evil Bats after they try to capture Bun's buddy Bev. But is the game any good? Find out ...

Estate Agent Simulator Preview Become the Ultimate Housing Agent

Estate Agent Simulator Preview | Become the Ultimate Housing Agent

This preview will take a closer look at Estate Agent Simulator, which puts us into the shoes of an estate agent who must find the most profitable houses and rent them to the people with the right price, managing our finances through our Off...

Soulbind: Tales Of The Underworld Preview | From Death To Redemption (PC)

Soulbind Tales Of The Underworld is a rogue-like adventure that mixes traditional hack-and-slash mechanics with a unique customization system. Keeping in line with most games of its genre, you'll need to learn which abilities and powers wor...

REMORE: Infested Kingdom Preview: Punishing Apocalypse Strategy

REMORE: Infested Kingdom Preview: Punishing Apocalypse Strategy

REMORE: Infested Kingdom is a challenging strategy game where every move must be calculated. Survival is the goal rather than killing every enemy. The learning curve is high and punishing, with few opportunities to practice. But you won't f...

Riftstorm Preview Deadly, Fun, and Intense

Riftstorm Preview | Deadly, Fun, and Intense

This preview will highlight Riftstorm, the latest roguelite game brimming with mechanics that allows seamless gameplay between stages and Towers, where we must fight the alien threats, both humanoid and the arachnid types, that came from ot...

Tiny Rogues Preview: A Randomized Frantic Dungeon Crawler

Tiny Rogues Preview: A Randomized Frantic Dungeon Crawler

RubyDev's Tiny Rogues provides plenty of fun and variety for players who wish to try a roguelike dungeon crawler with an inventive retro aesthetic and top-down shooter gameplay. Even in early access, the game offers a lot of content already...

Midnight Heist Preview A Surprising Treat for Halloween

Midnight Heist Preview | A Surprising Treat for Halloween

Midnight Heist is the latest title to the ever-expanding ghost-hunting genre with fresh twists and turns where we must try to hack devices to collect enough data while trying to escape the dreadful Entity that lurks around. If you're a fan ...

Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master Preview: Managing Monsters for Minimum Wage

Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master Preview: Managing Monsters for Minimum Wage

We've all done the grind: meet at a tavern, get your quest, destroy the dungeon. But with Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master, it's time to to be a villain! Lay out a devious dungeon and fill it with traps fit to kill any adventurers bold enough to...

Born of Bread Preview: Dough Boy Adventures

Born of Bread Preview: Dough Boy Adventures

Born of Bread combines some traditional platforming with turn-based combat and silly humour. It never takes itself seriously and it’s not a difficult game to learn. Several stats aren’t explained to you and timing for moves can be a struggl...

Carnival du Vael Preview: Spooky New Mini-Series from Realms of Peril and Glory

Carnival du Vael Preview: Spooky New Mini-Series from Realms of Peril & Glory

Starting from Monday October 16th, Realms of Peril and Glory will be airing their latest Actual Play mini-series; Carnival du Vael, along with other Halloween content throughout October. I was able to get hold of their first episode early a...

Mythwrecked Ambrosia Island Preview: A Cozy 'Friend 'Em Up' Adventure With the Greek Gods!

Mythwrecked Ambrosia Island Preview: A Cozy ‘Friend ‘Em Up’ Adventure With the Greek Gods!

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a highly anticipated game being developed by award-winning Indie studio, Polygon Treehouse. Whilst at WASD x IGN, I got to try out their latest demo and talk with the game's Creative Director, Alex Kanaris-S...

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Frogun Encore Preview: Hop To It!

Frogun Encore is the upcoming sequel to 2022's Frogun. In this retro-inspired 3D platformer you must lead Renata and her friends to defeat the villainous Fly Bois to stop them from resurrecting their fallen leader. To do this you must use t...

While We Wait Here First Impressions: The Diner At World’s End

While We Wait Here First Impressions: The Diner At World’s End

While We Wait Here sets up a normal narrative that has a strong contrast against the end of the world. The demo’s tutorial helps you understand what you must do and how your decisions branch off. It doesn’t give you anything substantial to ...

Pneumata First Impressions: Confusing Horror Turned Up To Eleven

Pneumata First Impressions: Confusing Horror Turned Up To Eleven

Pneumata sets up a scary atmosphere and turns the horror dial up to eleven with a dark environment. Enemies appear out of nowhere and have surprises that you must watch out for. Confusing controls and unclear instructions drag the demo down...

Witchfire Preview - The Complete Dark Fantasy Experience

Witchfire Preview – The Complete Dark Fantasy Experience

This is a preview of Witchfire, a roguelike, creative FPS that aims to deliver a new-take on combat, innovating every step of the way. A game that has been cooking in the oven for 7 years is almost ready and so are we. Drawing clear inspira...

Shardbound Preview: A Beautiful Blend of Tactics, Lore and Sass!

Shardbound Preview: A Beautiful Blend of Tactics, Lore and Sass!

Shardbound is an upcoming multiplayer collectible tactics game. As their Alpha playtest comes to a close, I share my thoughts on my experiences with the game. This includes the game's rich lore, the methods of story telling it uses, how the...

Silence of the Siren First Impressions: Slow Base Building

Silence of the Siren First Impressions: Slow Base Building

Silence of the Siren has some interesting gameplay concepts that add to the strategic aspect. Waiting for your army to build and carefully mapping out your options is fun and engaging when your opponents do it too. There’s a lot that must b...

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Agent Simulation Preview: Dodging Bullets and Shooting Bad Guys! (Oculus Quest 2)

This is a preview of Studio Gamebit's upcoming VR shooter, Agent Simulation. I got the chance to preview Studio Gamebit's upcoming VR shooter, Agent Simulation, at Gamescom. Join me as I share my experiences dodging bullets, shooting bad gu...

TaleSpire An Early Access Preview A Good Inititive Roll

TaleSpire Early Access Preview: A Good Initiative Roll

TaleSpire is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game Simulator that is currently in Early Access and developed by Bouncyrock Entertainment. This isn't a game in the traditional sense, but a simulator of a game board that you would use to play games lik...

Jumplight Odyssey Preview: Space Survival Trial & Error

Jumplight Odyssey Preview: Space Survival Trial & Error

Jumplight Odyssey presents a difficult space management simulator where you are constantly evading enemies from behind. You must create a self-sufficient ship that can take you to the stars. There’s a lot of trial-and-error, with the tutori...

Jusant Preview: Give Me Some Rope

Jusant Preview – Give Me Some Rope

Jusant is an adventure game all about rock climbing up a heavenly tower past past the clouds. Developed by DONT NOD, developer of Life is Strange and Vampyr, Jusant delivers tight climbing mechanics and an interesting story. My short previe...

Sengoku Dynasty Early Access Preview A Rough but Promising Diamond

Sengoku Dynasty Early Access Preview: A Rough but Promising Diamond

Sengoku Dynasty is a brand-new simulation game set within the Japanese Sengoku Period, where you must rebuild the villages in the Nata Valley to survive the waves of war. If you're looking for a historical and detailed life-sim game, then S...

Yet Another Zombie Survivors Preview: Survival Combat With Upgrades

Yet Another Zombie Survivors Preview: Survival Combat With Upgrades

Yet Another Zombie Survivors presents a smaller-scale version of Vampire Survivors with a team of three. Having a team dynamic allows you to combine abilities and execute multiple strategies in combat. While there isn’t anything unique othe...

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Stick to the Plan Preview: Good Boy!

Coming soon to PC is Indie Puzzle title Stick To The Plan. In this adorable little game you must guide a little dog on a big adventure to get increasingly large sticks. Along the way you'll travel to different worlds and face ever more diff...

Alekon Preview Lots of Fun With Quirky Creatures (Switch)

Alekon Preview: Lots of Fun With Quirky Creatures (Switch)

In this preview, you'll learn about Alekon, a fun and quirky adventure game that you should try out. There are lots of interesting creatures to meet and capture on camera, plus there are plenty of fun mini games to enjoy and worlds to explo...

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