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: 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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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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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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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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First Look: CRASH: Autodrive

CRASH: Autodrive puts players in the of shoes of Emily Knight, a down & out college student who must investigate a murder with three strangers after the self-driving Autocab they are in hits and kills a cyclist. I got the chance to give the game a try and here are my thoughts.

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First Look: How To Win

How to Win is an anarchic adventure/gaming experiment where anyone who plays can decide the rules of the world, and which direction the story goes. I played the first few chapters and here are my first impressions.

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First Look: LudoNarraCon

LudoNarraCon is a global, digital convention celebrating narrative video games, the talented people who make them, and the fans who love them, hosted on Steam. I had the honor of getting early access to the event and all of the featured games, and I am sharing what I think you should check out for yourself!

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First Look: Rhythm Hive

BigHit has finally released their rhythm game featuring their artists including BTS. As a frequent player of K-Pop games and a fan of BTS, I knew I had to give this a try and share my initial thoughts on the game.

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First Look: The StoryGraph

The StoryGraph is a new site and app for book lovers and avid readers to catalog their reads, review books, follow others in the community, and more. If you are familiar with Goodreads, StoryGraph has a similar concept. I’ve been poking around the site and decided to share my initial thoughts with you all.

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First Look: SubZero

SubZero is a popular Webtoon about two clans ruled by dragon-bearing individuals that have been at war for many years. But that war will end with the alliance created through the marriage of Kyro and Clove, the prince and princess of their respective clans. Years of boiling hatred, growing dissent from assassins, and a secret may break it all if they aren’t careful.

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First Look: Paradise Killer

Paradise Killer is an open-world detective game where you play as Lady Love Dies, a formerly exiled master detective, as she tries to solve the numerous murders that have happened on Paradise. I was given a key for the game and have some thoughts to share with you all.

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First Look: Love Me Knot

Love Me Knot is a Webtoon about a girl named Avery who can see the red string of fate, which is said to connect soulmates together. But her string leads to no one and she thinks she will be forever alone until she meets others who can see the strings too.

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First Look: Superstar JYP Nation

The Superstar series of games are rhythm games you can play on mobile. Each individual game focuses on a specific K-Pop company such as YG, SM, and JYP. I specifically played the JYP Nation version and wanted to share my thoughts.

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First Look: Neon Future

Neon Future is a sci-fi comic series created by Steve Aoki and Impact Theory about a future cold war between the Augmented, those who have integrated technology into their bodies, and the Authentic, those who haven’t. I have read the first few episodes and want to share some thoughts with you all.

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First Look: BTS Universe Story

BTS Universe Story is the mobile game based on the Bangtan Universe and has officially been released. I have played through the first chapter as well as explored the other stories and I’m going to share my initial thoughts with you all.

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First Look: Beyond Blue

Beyond Blue explores the mysteries of our ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep sea explorer and scientist. Become a part of a newly-formed research team using groundbreaking technologies to see, hear, and interact with the ocean in a more meaningful way than has ever been attempted.

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First Look: Devolverland Expo

Devolverland Expo is a first-person ‘marketing simulator’ set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled. Basically, Devolver turned their convention promos into a game! Devolver is one of my favorite developers so I immediately knew I wanted to explore this.

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First Look: Best Friends Forever

Best Friends Forever is an upcoming dating sim all about dog lovers finding their human companions. Not only are you trying to woo others, but you also have to legitimately take care of your new dog. The demo is currently out so I gave it a try and here are my thoughts.

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