Blasphemous 2‘s endings are lovingly bizarre. The mixture of religious allegory, eldritch nightmare, and superb animated cutscenes captivates and horrifies me. Even so, while I adored the frustrating futility of the bad ending and the good endings’ final reward, these conclusions can be monstrously challenging to achieve, compelling us to endure hours more of arbitrary […]
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Players scared to try out painfully popular OnlyUp no longer have to worry, as it’s been removed from Steam for good. To specify, OnlyUp is a ruthless platformer, much like Getting Over It, where players climb a mountain of reused assets while avoiding falling and losing all their progress. Through its success on streaming platforms
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   Fans of Rusty Lake style Adventure games can look forward to Underground Blossom, a bizarre point-and-click subway-themed adventure coming at the month’s end.  Following the adventures of stoic Laura Vanderbloom, Eurogamer details Underground Blossom’s trek through a grim subway with strange musicians, miserable passengers, and off-kilter personnel to guide our journey
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Fans of the hit cyberpunk cat sim Stray can rejoice with the announcement of an upcoming animated film adaptation! While the cozy cat platformer makes for a strangely odd take for making into a movie, Kotaku details Annapurna adapting Stray due to the game’s wild popularity the year before. For the game itself, Stray follows
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  Stardew Valley Fans can anticipate the return of Grandpa from beyond the grave in the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier update. First revealed in a Haunted Chocolatier tweet earlier today by Stardew developer Concerned Ape, the post shows an unnamed elderly figurine in a purple robe in bed claiming to have had a terrible dream.
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The Sentinel of the Emery ruined me. Between the giant troll’s slash attacks and an assortment of spinning blades, the Sentinel was a vicious early boss that took many attempts to beat. Even still, the Sentinel of the Emery guards the double jump ability, one of the best abilities in Blasphemous 2 and our only
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I have a lovingly strange relationship with visual novels. Even if I adore their strong narratives with devasting outcomes, like Sayori’s terrifying fate in Doki Doki Literature Club, the incredible minimalistic gameplay and poor pacing can be unforgivingly boring. In comes Videoverse, a visual novel set in a declining 2003 social media chatroom following a
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Stardew fans looking for their next fix before update 1.6 can check out Pufferdle, a free Wordle-esk fishing minigame available now! As Polygon details, Pufferdle combines Stardew Valley’s fishing mechanics with Wordle, forcing us to catch a particular fish and then deduce its identity based on the weather, location, time of day, and season. While this minigame
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  Settlement managers can look forward to the release of Pioneers of Pagonia in December!   With a reported early access release date of the end of December, Eurogamer details how players can enjoy this ambitious new management sim with over “40 different building types, more than 70 different goods, and dispersed production
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I adore Lesmes’s fight. Between enduring the three nail-baiting stages culminating in a final, Ornstein and Smough-esk battle against the religious cyborg zombie and his tinny doppelganger, Lesmes was one of my favorite starts to Blasphemous 2. Even so, while I enjoyed learning his attack patterns and developing my own strategy for dealing with the
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