Posts by Nate Lakritz
Overture Review
Created by the widely known Black Shell Media’s game development subsidiary, Black Shell Games, Overture is a roguelike RPG with plenty to offer. It is a clean game with a surprising amount of depth and creativity in character selection. Practically every essential roguelike feature is included, from dungeon boss battles to a plethora of loot...
Protocol Review
Protocol is played in the style of a walking simulator, where instead of exploring a unique environment or experimenting with your surroundings sandbox-style, you essentially play as a slave. Gameplay consists of following a literal protocol and proceeding through a dangerous sci-fi landscape as a lab rat. One wrong move to contradict your A.I. overseer’s...
Pocket Family Gets Revamped for Android Release
Pocket Family is a free simulation game where you design your dream house and interact with a virtual family. It’s been well received on the iOS App Store with a 4.3/5 rating and will be coming to Android soon. The Android version will revamp many of the game’s features and start off in Early Access....
RuneScape Celebrates Its 18th Anniversary
Today marks RuneScape‘s 18th anniversary. The groundbreaking MMO has reached some impressive milestones, including over $1 billion in lifetime revenue, the record for highest attendance at an annual player convention (RuneFest), and over 5 million installs of Old School RuneScape on mobile devices. Jagex, the company behind the game, is enjoying the success of their landmark...
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is Going Digital
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is widely known for being one of the most successful board game Kickstarter campaigns to date, amassing over six million dollars in funds. It’s an immersive tabletop game for 1-4 players filled with beautiful art and storylines. Soon, the physical version of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon will...
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Is Having a Kingdom Hearts Collaboration Event
Final Fantasy mobile spinoff Brave Exvius is having a Kingdom Hearts collaboration event from now until January 11th to celebrate the upcoming release of Kingdom Hearts III. Players will be able to obtain popular Kingdom Hearts characters Sora and Cloud during this special event. A short announcement trailer can be viewed here. Players can also...
The Blind Prophet Kickstarter Launches Soon
Currently being developed as a solo project by French artist and writer Baptiste Miny, The Blind Prophet is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. It features a hand-drawn world with traditional point-and-click exploration and puzzles. The Blind Prophet claims to “challenge you and provoke you to think about the importance of our existence, good, evil, and...
SOMA is Free to Download on GOG Today
As part of GOG’s winter sale, survival-horror hit SOMA is free for anyone to download until December 30th at 11:00 AM UTC. That means there’s only about 12 hours left to pick up the game at the time of this writing. All you need to do is visit SOMA’s page on the GOG store, log...
Gunkid 99 Preview
Heavily inspired by action-platformer Super Crate Box, Gunkid 99 throws you in a tightly-enclosed arena with a ton of enemies and many weapons at your disposal. You’ll tend to take a defensive stance against your opponents as projectiles swarm the screen. The main gameplay mechanic is a constantly shifting weapon rotation, where your task is...