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Lengthy demo powered up for CRT7

Lengthy demo powered up for CRT7

Retrofuturistic tech puzzler coming soon from the BAFTA-winning creator of SOLAS 128... Read more

Don't Nod to bring canine tale Koira to PC

Don't Nod to bring canine tale Koira to PC

Wordless hand-drawn fantasy adventure coming in 2025 from indie Belgian developer Studio Tolima... Read more

Unearthing The Crimson Diamond with Julia Minamata

Unearthing The Crimson Diamond with Julia Minamata

Solo Canadian developer Julia Minamata joins us to talk about her upcoming adventure game, a gorgeous pixel art love letter to Laura Bow and other classic Sierra text parser games. Bonus top fives: most memorable Sierra deaths... Read more

The Murder Hotel currently under construction

The Murder Hotel currently under construction

Supernatural serial murder mystery "with a twist" unveiled for Windows PC on Steam... Read more

Demo plots course for upcoming Saltsea Chronicles

Demo plots course for upcoming Saltsea Chronicles

Story-driven adventure from the creators of Mutazione coming to PC, PS5 and Switch later this year... Read more

Demo delivered for Sons of Saturn

Demo delivered for Sons of Saturn

Narrative-driven, old-school slideshow horror adventure coming later this year to Windows, Mac and Linux... Read more

Kickstarter clears the way to Neo Junk City

Kickstarter clears the way to Neo Junk City

Successful crowdfunding campaign to bring cyberpunk pixel art mystery to PC in 2025... Read more

Tall Story's game jam entry to be reborn as Heir of the Dog

Tall Story's game jam entry to be reborn as Heir of the Dog

Jekyll and Hyde freeware spoof from the creator of Lucy Dreaming to get full commercial expansion... Read more

Demo unleashed for Stars in the Trash

Demo unleashed for Stars in the Trash

Full version of hand-animated watercolour cat adventure coming soon on Steam for Windows PC... Read more

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review – Longer, more complex narrative sequel not quite as finely tuned as its predecessor

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review – Longer, more complex narrative sequel not quite as finely tuned as its predecessor

Bigger and better than its predecessor in some ways, more bloated and less focused in others, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is an intriguing sequel for those on the right wavelength for this kind of gameplay-lite narrative experience... Read more

The (Half) Year That Was

The (Half) Year That Was

With 2023 passing the halfway point, Joshua, Jack and guest co-host Pascal look back on the highlights and disappointments of the first six months, with a final top five look ahead at the best still to come... Read more

The Haunted Hospice now open through Steam

The Haunted Hospice now open through Steam

First-person survival horror available now for download on Windows and Linux... Read more

GOBLiiiNS5 video walkthrough

GOBLiiiNS5 video walkthrough

In this sequel to the first Gobliiins,  three adventurous elves must combine their skills to solve crazy puzzles in a strange universe. There's OUPS, who picks up and uses objects and is the most capable of communicating with other characters. ASGARD the... Read more

Return to Grace video walkthrough

Return to Grace video walkthrough

Follow archaeologist Adamari “Adie” Ito in the year 3820 AD as she embarks on a wildly dangerous mission to uncover what happened to the ancient artificial intelligence known as “Grace.” Adie has made it her life’s work to get to the heart of why Grace,... Read more