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Warcube, Buggy, Brilliant Fun
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Warcube, Buggy, Brilliant Fun

Warcube is a humorous game that takes the simple concept of cubes and makes them the core of attention. The result? Cubes in a fantasy setting with an overly dramatic combat system that could be something really magnificent. Haven Made have created a game that looks incredibly simple on the face of it, but as you progress, Warcube becomes a lot more interesting. I gained access to the title quite a few years back now, and the progression has been both impressive to see, but also worrying. I booted up the game with the excitement of being a cube fizzling around within my gut. And after the introduction cut-scene throws me down to the Old Kingdom like a cubic Superman on fire, I smashed my way through the easy-peasy tutorial. After slapping some scarecrows around with my big stick,...
Juicy Realm Review – Get Your Fruit Blasters Ready
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Juicy Realm Review – Get Your Fruit Blasters Ready

Get your fruit blasters ready, it’s going to get messy, Juicy Realm published by X.D Network Inc brings us fruit, but not as we know it! Gameplay Have you ever played a game like Enter The Gungeon and thought to yourself, “I really wish this game was a bit fruitier”? Well here is your chance!  In Juicy Realm you can choose to play from a number of different characters, each starting out with different weapons and ability. Once you choose your character, you start off at a camp and blast your way through different areas full of fruit.  Sounds easy right? Well not when that apple is toting a shot gun and trying to put an end to all of humanity. Once you annihilate all the homicidal fruit in that area you are rewarded with a chest! In that chest may be more health, ammo, or a randomised ...
Zomborg Review – You Are Legend! (Hopefully)
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Zomborg Review – You Are Legend! (Hopefully)

Game Dev Lab bring us Zomborg. I'm sure I don't have to give much away in regards to what the game is about. Time to pop on a helmet, some DMs and get some cartridges into that shotgun. It's going to be a long night. Gameplay First things first, you get a handy tutorial to learn the keys. This is always a good thing in my book. There are a few aspects to learn that will help you in the quest to kill everything. You have a nice third person down view on yourself and the surrounding area. Zoom in if you should so desire. Swing the camera round so you can traverse through or over any obstacles. You have a torch (flashlight), you have a friend, you have grenades. So far there is nothing to not like. Time to start the campaign. Zomborg is nothing new, well Zomborgs themselves are, ...
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Review – Liches, Imps, and Demons O My!
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Review – Liches, Imps, and Demons O My!

I don't want to set the world on fire, but these demons sure do. Fight for survival as you try to rebuild some semblance of society. Gather water, farm, contemplate howling at the moon and more in Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. Indie developer Suncrash pulled Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation from the depths of early access hell and summoned it to your PC via Steam. Now as a full release you must try to survive a world on fire as you train your rag tag group of survivors and teach them various skills as they level up. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation adds some dashes of humour into your bleak end times as random events and waves of demons come crashing on to your door step. The first three hours I played of this game shot past and before I knew it I had cre...
Sea of Thieves Review – The Seas Have Calmed
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Sea of Thieves Review – The Seas Have Calmed

It has been a whilesince Rare’s swashbuckling title, Sea of Thieves launched. A highly anticipated title with many players, including myself being desperate to jump into the salty seas. However, to point out again, it has been a while since Sea of Thieves launched, and I feel it’s a good time to see how the game plays now that the tide of excitement has lowered. I saw Sea of Thieves grow from way back in the early months of 2017. Playtests had just got started in fact. I think I was the second wave of players to get accepted, but I didn’t get to play much. I knew from my short time with it though, that it was something nice and that the community was excited amongst one another in the private forums. February 2018 saw more playtests taking place as the game grew closer to launch,...
CoolPaintr VR Review: Highlighting The Limits Of My Imagination
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CoolPaintr VR Review: Highlighting The Limits Of My Imagination

Video games can be like taking selfies with the filter switched on. It’s still you in there, but the version of you that you want the world to see. You play a driving game and get to live out your fantasies of being a racing driver, or getaway driver if that’s more your thing. A first person shooter will get you crawling through the battlefield, bravely leading team mates into the line of fire. A role playing game will have you walking the wasteland or exploring the mountains, all without leaving your house. Although CoolPaintr VR isn't a game, its no different. You go into it with a million ideas, creation at your fingertips and all of the power of VR to realise it. The only limitation is your imagination and you go in with the assumption that your imagination is limitless. Cool...
Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!
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Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!

Shoppe Keep was a wonderful shop management title, played from a first-person perspective with a strong focus on just selling items to customers. It didn’t really venture further than that, and it was hard to get into due to the progression system feeling lacklustre. Shoppe Keep 2 is here to change the game. Shoppe Keep had always been a fun experience no matter how many times I revisited it. Sadly the initial enjoyment of earning enough money to upgrade the store ending up feeling like more work than it needed to be. Customers didn’t flock in, but those that did lobbed your items like a tired bull trying to cause chaos. Shoppe Keep 2 arrives on Early Access with a much stronger focus on management than its predecessor. It also seems to feel just as sluggish in gameplay as the previous ...
For The King Review – A Tale Told In Coin Flips
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For The King Review – A Tale Told In Coin Flips

Released on April 19 and sneaking onto PC everywhere is board game turned turn-based RPG For the King. After spending some nights in the soft glow of my computer and accompanied by two friends to help in my journey I bestow upon you the reader a tale of rage and laughter. This is my review of For the King. Can BEARLY contain my excitement….sorry had to be done. Gameplay For the King takes you onto an adventure in the land of Fahrul. The game takes you on a journey to restore peace to the land after the king was murdered by an unknown assailant. You explore the map in a party of three whither that be with two friends, two online strangers, or you can control everyone. This game is a rogue-like joy ride across a hexagonal map. You start with a choice of three modes. The main...
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Review – Stack Rats on Rats on Rats
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Review – Stack Rats on Rats on Rats

Using fire, axes, bows, and a healthy dose of name calling wage an all out battle against the forces of both rats and evil northmen in Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Fatshark released Warhammer: End Times-Vermintide through Steam in 2015 amongst positive reviews. Following the familiar structure of Left4Dead it introduced us to the world of Warhammer and how much fun bashing in hordes of rat people can be. On March 8, 2018 they brought us Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for the PC to my excitement. Now after a month since release let’s see how it’s holding up.   Gameplay Verminide 2 doesn’t change the future of co-op gaming. But man does it improve upon it. You start in a tutorial as Markus Kruber, one of the five classes to play in this game, who has been captured and placed into a cag...
Murderous Pursuits Preview – Making Assassination More Fun
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Murderous Pursuits Preview – Making Assassination More Fun

If you prefer to eliminate your foes with stealth, and tactics rather than running in, all guns/swords blazing, then you might be interested in jumping on ship during the Jurassic Period, with Murderous Pursuits. Blazing Griffin’s assassination focused multi-player title, Murderous Pursuits ran an Open Beta from the 20th of April 2018, until 5am Monday 2018. Now, this one for me had been hiding away. I had seen nothing of the title anywhere before the open beta announcement until a friend of mine told me about it. So it was a lovely surprise to see it a few hours before it went live. Now, Murderous Pursuits is the toned-down equivalent where if Assassin’s Creed and Dishonored had a baby, and merged that DNA with a hint of The Ship, this is what you’d see birthed. The reason I mention...