When Bonbon first launched, our Adam found that the quiet little story of domestic horror in '80s Britain spoke to him, in a creepy nightmares-whispered-in-your-ear kinda way. Before we put him back in The Box, he described it as "a house of horrors that hit far closer to home than most". That alone should be enough to get your attention.Assuming it didn't, maybe this will: Bonbon…
Posts tagged “Aetheric Games”
Feature: Leave the nightlight on
When I was a kid I once woke up so scared that I couldn't open my eyes. My bed faced a window and I knew that if I looked, there'd be something outside the window, scratching at the glass. It felt safer to walk rather than to run, slowly sliding from beneath the blanket and treading through treacly air to the door, eyes still closed.…
Feature: Listen now or feel discomfort
Podcast: The Electronic Wireless Show talks Tacoma, The Shrouded Isle and comfort games
You look tired, traveller. Come in, sit by the fire and listen to the RPS podcast with us, the Electronic Wireless Show. It's about comfort gaming this week - the things we play when we feel down in the dumps or ill with the flu or just a little cold and tired. Here, drink it all up with your ears, like a nourishing audio broth.…
Freeware Garden searches the corners of the internet to highlight one free game every day.Bickadoodle starts off with an apparently distressed damsel waiting in her tower for a knight to come and do knightly stuff of the typical light fantasy variety. Like, for example, serenade her. Or maybe kill the threatening dragon who has irritatingly just dropped by and seems intent on destroying a perfectly adequate romantic…
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle, according to an old British legend. Deep within this dank and uninviting place, lives Jonathan Burke, overworked servant of "the thing upstairs." But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door, for there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out.Don't you download…