First Look: Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a challenging city builder about managing settlements in the high mountains. Carefully plan your production chains, trade networks and avalanche survival strategies to satisfy the needs of your citizens (and yaks) and make the Kingdom of Laysara thrive in this new game by Quite OK Games and Future Friends Games.

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First Look: WitchHand

WitchHand is a deck-building game created by Jon Nielsen where you play as a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization, befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells, and gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.

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First Look: A Highland Song

A Highland Song, the latest game by developers Inkle, is a narrative adventure game where you traverse the hills of Scotland on a journey to the sea. The folklore-inspired game with rhythm game and platformer mechanics caught my eye and I wanted to share my first impressions with you.

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First Look: Astronaut: The Best

Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure about running a proper space academy using hard work, lies, and witchcraft, all while trying not to be the next director to meet their demise. Let’s take a first look at this new game from Universal Happymaker.

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First Look: Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is an upcoming game about helping Greek gods and goddesses restore their lost memories on a mysterious island. Let’s take a first look at this indie adventure game from Polygon Treehouse and Whitethorn Games.

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Franchises That Should Get The Hogwarts Legacy Treatment

With the release of the highly anticipated Wizarding World RPG Hogwarts Legacy, I was thinking about what other universes would make for an interesting open world game that we haven’t seen before. Here are some that I’d like to play, given the chance.

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A Winding Path Review

A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure game about finding the beauty of the world and enjoying the little things. Explore the atmosphere of ancient caverns, enchanting forests, and busy settlements, help colorful characters, find the rain and unveil its magic.

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First Look: Witchy Life Story

Witchy Life Story is a wholesome crafting visual novel from Sundew Studios about a witch having just two weeks to save a town’s harvest festival through magic. Tend your garden and collect plants for spells and rituals to help the villagers of Flora. After all, if magic isn’t for solving everyday problems, what’s the point of a village witch anyway?

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Beacon Pines Review

Explore a strange, small town with a dark secret through a curious twelve-year-old and his friends in Beacon Pines, a cute and creepy adventure game from hiding spot games. You control the story and their fates, but when the stories end you can try again to solve more mysteries, uncover more secrets, and craft different endings.

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First Look: I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist is a survival life sim game where you spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative deckbuilding RPG with a timeloop twist. Let’s take a first look at this game from Finji and Northway Games.

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First Look: Teacup

Teacup is an adorable narrative adventure game where you play as a small, shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party. I played the demo for this wholesome experience and want to share my thoughts with you.

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First Look: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! is a four-part epic interactive fantasy adventure through a weird world of magic. What was once an adventure gamebook is now available digitally thanks to inkle studios, and I was given the chance to check it out.

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Quick Picks: LudoNarraCon 2022

LudoNarraCon, the global, digital convention celebrating narrative video games, is back this year with panels and 42 awesome games to check out. I went through the games and found the ones that stood out to me, so let’s take a look.

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Love Wordle? Try These Games Too

Wordle, the daily word game that became an overnight sensation, has gotten the world into word games. So I thought why not suggest some other fun games, both table and video, to play that get your word-guessing skills working.

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Save One Drop One: Mario Kart 8 Courses

With the recent release of the Booster DLC which adds new maps to the beloved racing game, I decided it would be fun to put all existing courses head to head in another edition of Save One Drop One!

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First Look: Sigh of the Abyss: Shadow Bonds

Sigh of the Abyss: Shadow Bonds from Rascal Devworks is a lore-rich visual novel that introduces us to the world and characters of Sigh of the Abyss. I was given the chance to play this prologue and want to share my first thoughts with you!

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Idol Manager Review

Do you think you can manage being the CEO and manager of an entertainment agency? You can find out by playing Idol Manager, a business simulator game about conquering the entertainment industry. I’ve played this game a lot and finally decided it needed a review.

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