Post Tagged with: "demo"

ARKADIANAX Is A Shmup That Mixes 2D And 3D, But Misses An Opportunity

ARKADIANAX Is A Shmup That Mixes 2D And 3D, But Misses An Opportunity

When it comes to arcade-style shmups, there tend to be only a couple of ways that developers tend to differentiate [...]

by × May 13, 2013 ×
Fight Through The Darkness In The Heroine Dusk Demo

Fight Through The Darkness In The Heroine Dusk Demo

This solidifies it, then. Well done, Legend of Grimrock, you have officially caused the interest in first-person, grid-based dungeon crawlers [...]

by × May 3, 2013 ×
You Contra Be Kidding Me: Continue? Philly Under Fire

You Contra Be Kidding Me: Continue? Philly Under Fire

Whoa! What’s that? A new Lazy Brain game? Hell yeah, and you know what? Even though it’s not complete yet, [...]

by × April 24, 2013 ×
Learn Yourself Some Thrust Control With This Demo

Learn Yourself Some Thrust Control With This Demo

Many years ago, people stood in front of arcade cabinets or sat in front of tiny TV screens, squinting in [...]

by × April 24, 2013 ×
What’s The Point In Voice Commands? In Verbis Vertis

What’s The Point In Voice Commands? In Verbis Vertis

Today I felt compelled to play the 0.2 demo of In Verbis Vertis for reasons that even I can’t explain. [...]

by × April 23, 2013 ×
Ecotone Offers You Riddles In Order To Solve Its Mysteries

Ecotone Offers You Riddles In Order To Solve Its Mysteries

The last time I played a game that had levels based on a sentence, I was whirring about inside a [...]

by × April 17, 2013 ×
The High Notes Of Music-Video Games

The High Notes Of Music-Video Games

As a kid of the 90s, I remember running into the living room, jumping on to the sofa and watching [...]

by × April 16, 2013 ×
Samurai Jazz Sounds Cooler Than It Is At The Moment

Samurai Jazz Sounds Cooler Than It Is At The Moment

Combining the inherent coolness of jazz and noir with the masterful technique of a samurai. Why has it taken this [...]

by × April 16, 2013 ×
Factorio Is A Machine-Fetishist’s Best Friend

Factorio Is A Machine-Fetishist’s Best Friend

There was a time when everything was Minecraft; you couldn’t move for the sea of Minecraft-related discourse. Games, articles, tributes, [...]

by × April 15, 2013 ×
Ballpoint Universe Is A Stunning Hand-Drawn Game, Browser Demo Available

Ballpoint Universe Is A Stunning Hand-Drawn Game, Browser Demo Available

Often, graphics are described as “hand-drawn” by us idiots who write about games, but it’s usually not true as these [...]

by × April 11, 2013 ×
Playing Dreadout’s Demo Is Like Being Inside An East Asian Horror Film

Playing Dreadout’s Demo Is Like Being Inside An East Asian Horror Film

Okay, look, I apologize. A few months ago I had a bit of a chortle at Dreadout because, well, come [...]

by × April 1, 2013 ×
Watch Your Garden Grow: Bloomfairy Contains Fairy Dust But Could Be More Magical

Watch Your Garden Grow: Bloomfairy Contains Fairy Dust But Could Be More Magical

Frolicking with the fairies is something I do best – they often let me out of my cage here so [...]

by × March 23, 2013 ×
Discover The Ancient Ruins Of Atlantis Via A Steampunk Submarine Trip In Fathom

Discover The Ancient Ruins Of Atlantis Via A Steampunk Submarine Trip In Fathom

Back when I was kid, and I mean a proper one, and not the overgrown baby I am now, I [...]

by × March 22, 2013 ×
Schein Demo Depicts A Grieving Father In Three Different Lights

Schein Demo Depicts A Grieving Father In Three Different Lights

Okay, I’ll confess. The main reason I was drawn to Schein was because I read that it was supposed to [...]

by × March 21, 2013 ×
Starshock Aspires To Be A Classic Sci-Fi Horror Shooter, But The Demo Isn’t Convincing

Starshock Aspires To Be A Classic Sci-Fi Horror Shooter, But The Demo Isn’t Convincing

Allowing players entry to a moon station where hostile drones and bots are lying in wait armed to the teeth [...]

by × March 20, 2013 ×