Mike Powell, Author at Thumb Culture

Loop Hero Review – Walking In Circles Was Never This Much Fun

24Mar

By Mike PowellNo Comments

Loop Hero Review – Walking In Circles Was Never This Much Fun

Walking around in circles over and over doesn't sound like much fun, but then again you’ve maybe not played Loop Hero yet. From Russian developers Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital. Loop Hero sold over 500,000 copies in its first week. If the name hasn’t given it away, you are exploring this world in a constant loop. Time passes as you move from square to square until you end up at the start, and you go again. Every day generates enemies to fight, in turn giving you more cards to alter your world and weapons/armour. Loop Hero - Round And Round We Go! While Loop Hero is currently only available on PC, there are rumours it could be coming to PlayStation/Xbox/Switch. Gameplay I have seen a lot of my content creator friends playing Loop Hero, at first I was very baffled by it...

Academia School Simulator Review – Top of its class?

18Feb

By Mike Powell1 Comment

PC Reviews

Academia School Simulator Review – Top of its class?

Academia School Simulator is a management game that let's you build the school of your dreams, everything from construction, staff and down to the crest of the school. This was released by Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc back in 2017 for Steam. Academia School Simulator the companies second game release and first in this genre. Have you ever wanted to run your own school? Then this is certainly the game you've been waiting for. Academia School Simulator - Angling For An A? As School Principal, you get to watch your students as they get bullied, find love, flunk exams, and try to survive the battlefield known as school. After looking at the steam page for this game I was super excited to play before I jumped in. Memories of Prison Architect flooded into my head and got me excited. I'll discu...

Let’s Sing 2021 Review – Does It Hit The High Notes?

20Nov

By Mike Powell3 Comments

Xbox Reviews

Let’s Sing 2021 Review – Does It Hit The High Notes?

Indoor entertainment has never been more popular than in 2020. Especially if you live in a household with several people where maybe morale is running low. Fortunately for us, Voxler have coupled with Koch Media to bring us this superstar simulation. Let's Sing in...Let's Sing 2021 A music simulator is a fairly straight-forward genre, you sing, a microphone picks up your voice and then a bar shows you what pitch you're singing at and what you actually need to be hitting. A score keeps track of your accuracy and how well you've stuck to that pitch. So does Let's Sing 2021 hit the high notes? Let's find out! Gameplay As most karaoke games do, Let's Sing 2021 has several different game modes. The most notable being Classic in which you choose a song and sing to try for a diamond record. T...