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Pupperazzi immediately impresses with its adorable dogs bounding across a variety of colorful levels.
A good, but not great, new IP, Poison Control skillfully harnesses NIS's abilities to present a visually-striking, musically-engaging world with unique gameplay concepts.
There's a lot to love with Paradise Killer. From the cool cast of characters, to the open-ended nature of the investigation, players will find it easy to dive in.
Room No. 9 excels with its extremely novel, and frightening, concept.
Anyone interested in narrative-focused games needs to check If Found… out.
Murder by Numbers is a game for people who enjoy playing nonogram/Picross puzzles.
Some players may want to mainline Shenmue III in order to see all the story has it has to offer as quickly as possible.
It's weird how a developer who is both so skilled at crafting visual novels and dungeon crawlers ended up creating a game that is not perfectly suited toward either audience.
The key thing that Sweet Pool has going for it is the unusual themes it presents players with. This is one of those games that you’ll end up thinking about even after you’ve finished it. Just be sure to go with the complete version if at all possible. The Steam edition is cut in such a way that it’s impossible to recommend playing without obtaining the patch.
MachiaVillain is a provides a terribly fun concept for a management simulation game.
It's exciting to see a game like SeaBed receive an official English translation.
Although it should take most ten hours to complete, A Hand in the Darkness provides something unique in the visual novel space.
Skeleton Boomerang is a challenging 2D platformer with a lovely variety of levels, weapon variations and goofy enemies to battle against.
The Darkside Detective is a charming point and click adventure with a taste for the sillier aspects of horror. Expect to see references to 80s and 90s pop culture while solving cases alongside the Darkside Division's finest. It's not the sort of game likely to stump players with inane item puzzles and that's a good thing. Some changes could have been made to further streamline the experience, but it works well enough without them.
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is in many ways akin to the horror games that flourished in the PS2 era.
Nekopara continues to grow with each release.
There are pros to picking up Deemo: The Last Recital on Vita. This single purchase opens you up to tons of what the mobile game has to offer without any need of DLC purchases.
Nightshade has tremendous promise but tends to fall short in the moments that it fails to empower its own protagonist.
Da Capo 3 R is a massive visual novel that is set to provide hours upon hours of entertainment for the sort of visual novel fan who loves their slice of life tales with a dose of fantasy.
Anyone who enjoys racing games and owns a Switch does not have many options for games right now beyond FAST RMX. Fortunately, it should provide players with at least a dozen hours of gameplay as they work their way from the novice cups to more advanced races.