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Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around
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DreadXP is taking on the visual novel dating sim genre in gaming and adding an eldritch twist, I’m speaking of Sucker for Love: Fist Date the first of three stories featuring a hero trying to score a date with one of three ladies who are Lovecraftian creatures. In Sucker for Love, players will have to keep their eldritch ladies happy by performing dangerous rituals and staying alive from the otherworldly horrors you let loose, all to earn a kiss from Estir (Hastur), Ln’Eta (Cthulhu), and Nyanlathotep (Nyarlathotep). Sucker for Love: First Date will be sliding into your DMs on January 22nd on STEAM. Players can wishlist the game now by clicking HERE.
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Kojima Productions and 505 Games are teaming up to bring Kojima’s genre-defying game Death Stranding to PCs this spring. Players can once again join up with Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus) and BB on their journey across the treacherous landscape of the former United States in order to reunite the country, all the while facing an otherworldly presence that made the wasteland it’s home. Death Stranding Director’s Cut will include higher framerate, photo mode, and ultra-wide monitor support. for the tech nerds, the game will for the first time incorporate Intel’s new Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) graphics technology to create a better visual experience for old and new players to Death Stranding. Death Stranding Director’s Cut will be coming to PC in Spring 2022 for STEAM and Epic Games Store.
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The gaming industry surely made up for lost time this year and horror games were among them. I’ve reviewed a lot of games this year and there were quite a few horror titles among them. going through my lists I picked out all the horror titles and broke down the list more to pick out games that were fun, had good scares, and were just overall good horror games. So without further ado, here’s the Top 5 Horror Games Reviewed in 2021 starting off from good and working our way up to best! 5: The Medium Bloober Team is no stranger to making good horror games but The Medium was on another level with its amazing artwork showing the world of the living and the dead through the eyes of a psychic. The game follows Marianne, a medium who visits an old soviet resort in 1999 Poland after being called upon to investigate. Marianne soon learns that something very wrong
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Turtle Rock Studios is made up of the same folks who made the legendary FPS zombie kill fests Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 so when it was revealed that they were making Back 4 Blood you bet your ass I was excited as I played the hell out of the L4D games! So when I got the chance to review this game I was excited… then things went sour (more on that in a few). Unfortunately, things did not get better but I still want to thank Turtle Rock and Warner Bro Games for the opportunity for this review. Back 4 Blood follows a group of survivors known as Cleaners who venture out as a sort of kill squad that goes after the Ridden, people infected by parasitic worms that turn them into zombie-like creatures, with some mutating into monsters. Onto the game itself. When it comes to the controls they’re…OK. it’s your standard FPS control scheme
Continue reading →
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The so bad it’s good holiday slasher from 1984 Silent Night Deadly Night could soon become a board game to add to your yuletide game nights! The film’s producers teamed up with Fright-Rags Inc. to make a Kickstarter to help bring this fun vision to life! 1-4 players can team up and try to stop Billy, the Santa-dressed killer, from killing Mother Superior at the Orphanage! Play as Andy, Denise, Mr. Simms, or Sister Margret to try and foil Billy’s plan all the while risking yourself in the process. Players will have to try to set up roadblocks to slow Billy down while drawing action cards featuring moments from the film. The board will be double-sided with a Naughty and Nice side, the nice side being the standard game while the Naughty side is set up as a drinking game! The Kickstarter ends January 13th and backers will be able to pre-order the game through the Kickstarter. If you’re interested
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Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the
Continue reading →
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THQ Nordic yesterday released a large expansion to their RPG adventure Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. This DLC titled Fatesworn continues the story after the events of the game’s main story set years later with the god of chaos Telogrus awakening and wishing to bring chaos to the world of Amalur, not wanting to see your hard work of bringing peace back to the land, you again set out to put this god in his place! There’s really not much I can say without spoiling the story, but when it comes to the game itself, you can refer to my previous review of the main game HERE as pretty much the game’s controls, graphics, and sound are no different now as they were previously BUT I will say the map has improved where the minimap is no longer locked in place (you can change that in the options if this option was always there I’ll admit I missed that!). What I
Continue reading →
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Over the years you at one point must have heard people say, or post on social media, that they either wonder if or wish that the Purge was or could be real. The 2013 film The Purge gave audiences uncomfortable feelings, or awkward excitement… and spawned four sequels and a television series. The story takes place in a dystopian/utopia society where once a year all crimes are legal (but people seem to REALLY be into the murdering kind), and the films focus on either an individual or groups of individuals trying to survive the night of lawlessness. In the films the idea behind having a Purge was to give the masses a release resulting in lower crime rates during the rest of the year and the economy thrived from it, spoiler alert, in real life just one purge night would completely destroy a country financially since all emergency services (like fire fighting) would not be in service, a lot of
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Ebb Software has shared with anxious fans some great news that after a long wait their first-person horror game Scorn will be coming in 2022! Scorn is an atmospheric horror adventure set in a twisted biomechanical world reminiscent of the works of H.R. Giger. Along with the news of the release comes news about Ebb’s Kickstarter campaign where supporters are encouraged to continue donating as they will be treated to behind the scene content such as works in progress, and a more technical look at the work going into Scorn. Ljubomir Peklar, CEO of Ebb Software had this to say about Scorn: We’re really pleased to be able to share more news on the game and its release date. Scorn has been a real work of passion for the entire studio. The atmosphere, the journey, and the experience, we want every moment in Scorn to elicit an emotional response and feeling. It is our hope that Scorn stays with players
Continue reading →
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Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around
Continue reading →
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DreadXP is taking on the visual novel dating sim genre in gaming and adding an eldritch twist, I’m speaking of Sucker for Love: Fist Date the first of three stories featuring a hero trying to score a date with one of three ladies who are Lovecraftian creatures. In Sucker for Love, players will have to keep their eldritch ladies happy by performing dangerous rituals and staying alive from the otherworldly horrors you let loose, all to earn a kiss from Estir (Hastur), Ln’Eta (Cthulhu), and Nyanlathotep (Nyarlathotep). Sucker for Love: First Date will be sliding into your DMs on January 22nd on STEAM. Players can wishlist the game now by clicking HERE.
Continue reading →
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Kojima Productions and 505 Games are teaming up to bring Kojima’s genre-defying game Death Stranding to PCs this spring. Players can once again join up with Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus) and BB on their journey across the treacherous landscape of the former United States in order to reunite the country, all the while facing an otherworldly presence that made the wasteland it’s home. Death Stranding Director’s Cut will include higher framerate, photo mode, and ultra-wide monitor support. for the tech nerds, the game will for the first time incorporate Intel’s new Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) graphics technology to create a better visual experience for old and new players to Death Stranding. Death Stranding Director’s Cut will be coming to PC in Spring 2022 for STEAM and Epic Games Store.
Continue reading →
GamingHoliday HorrorProductReviews
The gaming industry surely made up for lost time this year and horror games were among them. I’ve reviewed a lot of games this year and there were quite a few horror titles among them. going through my lists I picked out all the horror titles and broke down the list more to pick out games that were fun, had good scares, and were just overall good horror games. So without further ado, here’s the Top 5 Horror Games Reviewed in 2021 starting off from good and working our way up to best! 5: The Medium Bloober Team is no stranger to making good horror games but The Medium was on another level with its amazing artwork showing the world of the living and the dead through the eyes of a psychic. The game follows Marianne, a medium who visits an old soviet resort in 1999 Poland after being called upon to investigate. Marianne soon learns that something very wrong
Continue reading →
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Turtle Rock Studios is made up of the same folks who made the legendary FPS zombie kill fests Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 so when it was revealed that they were making Back 4 Blood you bet your ass I was excited as I played the hell out of the L4D games! So when I got the chance to review this game I was excited… then things went sour (more on that in a few). Unfortunately, things did not get better but I still want to thank Turtle Rock and Warner Bro Games for the opportunity for this review. Back 4 Blood follows a group of survivors known as Cleaners who venture out as a sort of kill squad that goes after the Ridden, people infected by parasitic worms that turn them into zombie-like creatures, with some mutating into monsters. Onto the game itself. When it comes to the controls they’re…OK. it’s your standard FPS control scheme
Continue reading →
GamingHoliday HorrorNewsProduct
The so bad it’s good holiday slasher from 1984 Silent Night Deadly Night could soon become a board game to add to your yuletide game nights! The film’s producers teamed up with Fright-Rags Inc. to make a Kickstarter to help bring this fun vision to life! 1-4 players can team up and try to stop Billy, the Santa-dressed killer, from killing Mother Superior at the Orphanage! Play as Andy, Denise, Mr. Simms, or Sister Margret to try and foil Billy’s plan all the while risking yourself in the process. Players will have to try to set up roadblocks to slow Billy down while drawing action cards featuring moments from the film. The board will be double-sided with a Naughty and Nice side, the nice side being the standard game while the Naughty side is set up as a drinking game! The Kickstarter ends January 13th and backers will be able to pre-order the game through the Kickstarter. If you’re interested
Continue reading →
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Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the
Continue reading →
GamingProductReviews
THQ Nordic yesterday released a large expansion to their RPG adventure Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. This DLC titled Fatesworn continues the story after the events of the game’s main story set years later with the god of chaos Telogrus awakening and wishing to bring chaos to the world of Amalur, not wanting to see your hard work of bringing peace back to the land, you again set out to put this god in his place! There’s really not much I can say without spoiling the story, but when it comes to the game itself, you can refer to my previous review of the main game HERE as pretty much the game’s controls, graphics, and sound are no different now as they were previously BUT I will say the map has improved where the minimap is no longer locked in place (you can change that in the options if this option was always there I’ll admit I missed that!). What I
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorTrue CrimeTrue Story
Over the years you at one point must have heard people say, or post on social media, that they either wonder if or wish that the Purge was or could be real. The 2013 film The Purge gave audiences uncomfortable feelings, or awkward excitement… and spawned four sequels and a television series. The story takes place in a dystopian/utopia society where once a year all crimes are legal (but people seem to REALLY be into the murdering kind), and the films focus on either an individual or groups of individuals trying to survive the night of lawlessness. In the films the idea behind having a Purge was to give the masses a release resulting in lower crime rates during the rest of the year and the economy thrived from it, spoiler alert, in real life just one purge night would completely destroy a country financially since all emergency services (like fire fighting) would not be in service, a lot of
Continue reading →
GamingNewsTrailers
Ebb Software has shared with anxious fans some great news that after a long wait their first-person horror game Scorn will be coming in 2022! Scorn is an atmospheric horror adventure set in a twisted biomechanical world reminiscent of the works of H.R. Giger. Along with the news of the release comes news about Ebb’s Kickstarter campaign where supporters are encouraged to continue donating as they will be treated to behind the scene content such as works in progress, and a more technical look at the work going into Scorn. Ljubomir Peklar, CEO of Ebb Software had this to say about Scorn: We’re really pleased to be able to share more news on the game and its release date. Scorn has been a real work of passion for the entire studio. The atmosphere, the journey, and the experience, we want every moment in Scorn to elicit an emotional response and feeling. It is our hope that Scorn stays with players
Continue reading →
