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The Sunday Papers
You know what, reader? Sundays are for whatever you goddamn feel like. Go swimming. Get lost in the woods. Take a kintsugi pottery class. Fix a broken appliance. Eat more than one hot dog. Learn Welsh. Smash your kintsugi pottery and take another class to repair it. Rearrange to…
James Archer · 1 day ago
Object Impermanence is a puzzle game where the moment you look away from something, it stops existing
Remember when you were a baby, and someone would cover their face with their hands, thusly disappearing entirely from existence, only to return and scream at you? This is to do with something called object permanence, an idea of understanding that even when you can't see somethi…
Oisin Kuhnke · 2 days ago
Man a gate and keep out people, chickens and unknown horrors alike in the Paper Please-esque Dreadwoods Gatekeeper
Most Papers Please-likes that I'm aware of tend to all have a throughline in being 2D. That'll for sure be because one, it'll be easier to make and two, most derivative works don't exactly move that far away from their source of inspiration. That isn't so for Dreadwoods Gatekeep…
Oisin Kuhnke · 2 days ago
Build a medieval castle piece by piece and then defend it from enemy knights in the city builder and RTS Bergfried
How about a two-for-one today? Perhaps something from the RTS tower defence and city builder departments? Oh, and we'll throw in a medieval flavouring too, on the house. With all of that mixed together and wrapped up nicely, you get Bergfriend, a game in which you build medieval…
Oisin Kuhnke · 2 days ago
After spending more than a decade in early access, robotic survival game Scrap Mechanic enters 1.0 later this month
You ever just blink and 10 years of your life have gone by just like that? I wonder if that's how the developers behind Scrap Mechanic feel, given that the survival sandbox game about building fancy machines out of whatever you can get your hands on celebrated its 10th year in e…
Oisin Kuhnke · 2 days ago
Dragon Age writer David Gaider's next game is a light-hearted heist RPG, if he can get the funding for it
Since being founded back in 2017, Summerfall Studios have only managed to put out a couple of games, 2023's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, and last year's Malys, a devil exercising deckbuilder. Unfortunately for the studio, neither game did amazingly, but according to co-f…
Oisin Kuhnke · 2 days ago
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