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Feature: A real good cuppa
2020 has been a good year for visual novels set in coffee shops and cafes. The excellent and stylish Necrobarista immediately springs to mind, but despite its name (and being set in arguably the best coffee shop in all of video games), it doesn't actually involve making a single drink. Coffee Talk, on the other hand, is all about the ins and outs of the…
Feature: Do they serve tea?
If you liked Coffee Talk, then you’ll love Before The Coffee Gets Cold
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You can play mini deck-building RTS Necronator: Dead Wrong this month
Necronator: Dead Wrong is a little RTS on rails with a healthy heap of deck-building on the side. Eat your strategy vegetables! The developers at Toge Productions (who also just released Coffee Talk) have debuted a new trailer for the evil RTS before it his early access this month.
Feature: No logo on the foam
Mellow. I see little value in reducing games to a single word, but here that word is inescapable. Coffee Talk is a light visual novel with a drink mixing system, that lets you gently nudge its subplots towards good or bad outcomes. I can't tell you it was a particularly gripping, dramatic or funny story. But it was very mellow. That may sound like faint…
Feature: Big Makoto Shinkai energy
A Space For The Unbound’s short demo has carved out a big space in my heart
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Feature: Turns out there were a lot
Alice Bee: Good afternoon, esteemed colleagues. We were all locked, at one time or another, in the RPS EGX dungeon this weekend. Given that it's a veritable bonanza of video games, both large and small, we should discuss the bestest games we saw over the weekend. I'm sure it will be entertaining and useful for our readers! Who wants to offer the first game up…
New publisher Modern Wolf declare commitment to “ethical game development”
New wee indie publisher Modern Wolf announced themselves to the world this week, and made a big show of declaring they are "committed to ethical game development." Their initial lineup of five games sounds pretty neat, including the next games from the studios behind Neo Scavenger and Out There. More folks in the industry do talk openly about its troubles these days but it's still…
Part point-and-click adventure, part music album, part storybook, part poem, part fairy tale – She And The Light Bearer talks about blending a whole lot of things into one game. But above all else, is it ever pretty.Just look at the way the foliage moves and the light filters down from above in its trailer:
There’s a particular vibe to a good coffee shop; a chill atmosphere where people catch up with one another and enjoy a good hot drink. Coffee Talk captures that same vibe, with its lo-fi chill-hop soundtrack and the gentle noises of pouring water both from the rain and the espresso machine.It also aims to capture the human stories that pass through cafés like this every…
The 'dadification' of games is an interesting phenomenon. As a generation of primarily male game developers settle down and start families, it's hard not to observe a growing trend of protective father figures cropping up as game protagonists, some better at it than others.Gothic fantasy parenting/management sim My Lovely Daughter seems a fitting antidote to all of that. An alchemist attempts to revive his lost…
