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Cultist Simulator: Initiate Edition Comes to Switch
Life isn’t always as it seems. Sometimes you can get what you want by the simplest of means. In life, not everything is black and white; in most acts of everyday life, there is a gray area. This gray area can lead people to guess rules, morality, and their very own life. Those who challenge or question the status quo are called non-conformist or miscreants. Once a group forms that follow the...[Read More]
Darksburg Releases Later This Month on Steam
At PAX East 2019, we met with Shiro Games to preview their upcoming cooperative zombie roguelite action game Darksburg. Since then, Darksburg has sat in our steam library hidden away until its release. Earlier this week, Northgard and Evoland studio Shiro Games announced Darksburg would be departing from Stream Early Access and reanimating as a full official Steam title later this September. The g...[Read More]
Curious Expedition (Xbox One) Review
It wasn’t until the third run in Curious Expedition that I realized how much I disliked Charles Darwin. I’d managed to stay neck-and-neck with him through two expeditions as Ada Lovelace, but my third expedition had been an utter disaster. I’d gotten greedy and caused a volcanic curse to befall the region after stealing some artifacts from an ancient temple, and after that, it had been a race to j...[Read More]
Curious Expedition Gears Up To Explore Console Territories
Curious Expedition heads for new territories. The roguelike expedition simulator will be receiving a console release at the end of March and in early April across all three major console platforms. The announcement was made by the game’s publisher, Thunderful Publishing.
Ambition: A Minuet in Power Hands-On Preview
We’ve previously covered upcoming indie romance roguelike Ambition: A Minuet in Power. After a successful debut showing at PAX East this year, it’s clear that the team at Joy Manufacturing Co. is making solid progress on this unique title. I recently had a chance to sit down with the PAX demo of the game for an extended session, and feel confident that this game is going to turn some heads when it...[Read More]
MISTOVER Gets Launch Date and Additional Platform
It’s no secret that several of us here on Marooners’ Rock are very excited about MISTOVER, the upcoming turn-based RPG from KRAFTON Game Union. Now it looks as though the wait is nearing an end. Not only that, but gamers will have another option for which platform to experience this anticipated game.
Void Bastards Gets a Launch Date
Get ready, here come the bastards! Today. Humble Bundle announced an official release date for Void Bastards, the cel-shaded, roguelike, FPS from Blue Manchu and directed by Jonathan Chey.
Void Bastards – Roguelike FPS – Announced By Humble Bundle
Is announcing a game on a weekend a sign of humility, or total confidence that your announcement isn’t going to be lost in the shuffle of weekend events when no one is paying attention to the news? I don’t know, but I’m betting that Humble Bundle was going with the latter option when they released the news of Void Bastards on a quiet Saturday afternoon.
To Hell with Hell – Retro-Roguelike Announced by Lazurite Games and Deck13
Ready to cancel an apocalypse? Developer Lazurite Games and publisher Deck13 sure hope so, as they’ve announced their new bullet-hell roguelike shooter To Hell with Hell today in Franfurt, Germany. Players will slip into the high-heels of Natasia, a stripper on her way to work when all hell breaks loose – literally.
Chasm PAX East Hands-On Preview
Back in the days of my youth, I would spend a lot of days on sites like Miniclip, Nitrome, or OneMoreLevel. It was on those sites that I first encountered the pixel art style in gaming. Before that point, I had only come across them in arcades and other such establishments. And yet, I was hooked. I spent countless days fettering my summer afternoons in devotion to these pixel arcade games.
I Hate Running Backwards PAX East Preview
Take a cast of characters culled from some of the all-time classic, old-school difficulty action games. Throw them into a vertically scrolling bullet hell. Make them progress by doing the one thing that’s totally counterintuitive in normal SHMUPS: run backwards. That’s the formula for I Hate Running Backwards, and it works shockingly well.
We Previewed Last Encounter at PAX East, Now The Game is Available on Steam
Available today for everyone on Steam, Last Encounter is a top-down, twin-stick shooter with heavy weapon customization and a few roguelike influences. I got a chance to go hands-on with the game this year at PAX East, and garner a few impressions ahead of today’s PC launch.
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