Review: Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Makes a Valiant Leap to PC
Trails of Cold Steel is a charming and lighthearted story of eight gifted recruits to The Thors Military Academy in the mighty Erebonian Empire.
Author: Graham Stephen
Graham is a one man blogger over at Digital Brain and a lifelong gamer. He has a penchant for Dark Souls, immersive sims and coffee. An avid appreciation of kittens keeps him sane.
Disease, Isolation and Abstraction: Reimagining Death in ‘Pathologic’
Pathologic first caught my eye a few years ago when Rock Paper Shotgun called it “the best game you’ve never heard of”. They weren’t kidding, either. Pathologic is about as niche as it gets. I found this out firsthand, reviewing it for this very web site back in 2015 and I was blown away by…
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour Review
Duke Nukem 3D is a game very dear to my heart. Cast your minds back to late 1998, where a younger, more foolish version of myself used to delight in sneaking out of the house to visit a nearby friend and play a naughty game with swearing and breasts in it. At the time, playing Duke…
Hackmud Review
Hacker culture is pretty well exposed these days. In between the paranoid fever dream of Mr Robot and the myriad of indie games attempting to recreate the fascinating sub culture, along with all that real-world stuff of whistle blowers and Edward Snowden and privacy debates, the dystopia written at the birth of the Internet seems…
Zenith Review
Zenith is a game that shouldn’t work. In fact, it often doesn’t work. It’s a game that demands you pass it by. Its storefront on Steam looks as generic as it gets. Its myriad of bugs and issues should be turning you off. The shoddy menus and absolutely horrible combat system is so bad it…
Grand Kingdom Beta Preview
Sometimes, familiarity is a good thing. When you come to know and rely on something, it becomes a fond source of warmth. “Ol’ trusty,” you’ll call it. In a lot of ways, Nippon Ichi Software fills that gap. They are mostly known for their neat strategy/tactical RPG games, more recently, the excellent, weird, strange but…
Soul Axiom Review (PC)
There’s something to be said about esoteric, formless, almost alien experiences in art. Abstraction has been a concept that artists have played with since… forever, and Soul Axiom is no exception. It toys with light and dark, odd, angular shapes and absolutely no narrative direction whatsoever – and it just about gets away with being…
Monumental review
Monumental is a good reminder to not judge a book by its cover. The store front for this strange first person puzzler gives it something of a explorative, mysterious Dear Esther-in-space puzzle game, almost like the recently released The Witness – but in a space ship. Perhaps I’m being presumptuous, but you should never buy anything…
Sven Co-op Review
Sven Co-op is a Co-operative mod for the original Half-Life. It’s a simple premise: it’s Half-Life, but with your buddies. No competitive gameplay. No score streaks. Nothing fancy. Just play Half-Life with your friends. Now available as a standalone game on Steam, it’s the perfect time to get involved. You can share ammo with your…
Punch Club Review
Have you seen Raging Bull? It’s what you get when you set unchecked masculinity on a road to ruin. DeNiro plays a quiet, subtle lunatic to perfection, framed within a movie that doesn’t require you to be a fan of boxing to be shocked and moved by it. Rocky is like that. Well, it’s actually…
Fat Princess Adventures Review
Sometimes, the winding road of progress can be a mixed bag. Either you believe the older ways are the better ways, or you welcome change with open arms. Personally, I think the gaming industry operates on a large degree of rose-tinted rear-facing spectacles, but generally speaking, I fall in the category that believes progress is…
The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and his Square Mind Review
The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and his Square Mind is a new puzzle-platform hybrid on Nintendo 3DS and is a unique take on what Psychonauts touched on years ago, asking the player to assess, reassemble and analyse the protagonist’s mind. We follow Von Sottendorff around his jumbled, chaotic mind while trying to find sense, logic and…
Hurtworld: Just Another Survival Sim?
If you gaze into your crystal ball and look all the way back to 2012, you’ll more than likely find me playing DayZ for hours and hours at a time with my university friends. These were long afternoons spent enveloped in the early days of the mod, just before it blew up online, before the…
Hard West Review
Imitation, as the saying goes, is a form of flattery. That adage proves to be correct in the case of Hard West, a new turn-based tactical strategy game from the folks over at CreativeForge. Hard West lifts the successful mould left by Firaxis’ XCOM reboot and brings us a brilliantly crafted spin on the rebooted…
Addressing the Balance: Intellect vs Simplicity in Video Games
In your most cynical moments, it’s easy to boil culture down into its most basic, lowest parts. When you’re flicking through your TV channels, catching a glimpse of a sugary advert or a terrible trailer for a terrible film or game, you’d probably be right to presume our culture is a smorgasbord of muck. We’ve…
Pathologic Classic HD Review
Pathologic is a 2005 Russian psychological horror game set in a bizarre, isolated town beset by a deadly plague. You assume the role of three different characters who each experience the strange story from different perspectives, often with their stories intersecting each others. Pathologic is a unique – though brutally compromised – game that bleeds…
Brigador: Early Access Preview
Brigador is a Cyberpunk flavoured derivation of Terminator – a generous mix of the Future War segments of Terminator films, tempered by some of the visual flairs seen in Blade Runner. It feels a lot like Syndicate in that you spend quite a lot of time bulldozing huge, futuristic buildings and putting dozens of civilians,…
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon Review
Spiders have a dark mysticism to them. At a glance, they are as far away from a human as you can possibly imagine. They have eight spindly legs and way too many eyes, they can bite, they can be poisonous, and in the right environments they can be as big as your fist. As a…
Pure Hold’em Review
Poker is a unique game. It often plays out like a game of secrets and your visual appearance in game is just as important as the hands you play. How cool and calm you are (or not) can often turn the tide of a hand and bluffing your way to a sweet payout always feels…
Nobunaga’s Ambition: The Sphere of Influence Review
Nobunaga’s Ambition: The Sphere of Influence is a turn-based strategy game from Japanese studio Koei Tecmo. Koei have been quietly pumping out this kind of historical strategy simulator for long time now and they tend to fly under the radar here in the west. People fond of importing games may be more well attuned to…
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