Category: PC Games

Citizens of Earth Developer: Eden Industries Publisher: Atlus Genre: RPG Release Date: 01/20/2015 Citizens of Earth started off on Kickstarter. It looked promising, with clear Earthbound influences and the ability to recruit everyday citizens as party members, but sadly it ultimately didn’t meet its funding goal. It seemed like that would be the end of…

Dead Effect Genre: First Person Shooter Developer: Dykast Lubomir Publisher: Dykast Lubomir Release Date: 12/17/14 When a game is released at a budget-minded price, certain concessions should be extended to it; a game that launches at $60 should be held to a much higher standard than a game that launches at $10, because the cost…

Dreamfall Chapters – Book One: Reborn Developer: Red Thread Games Publisher: Red Thread Games Genre: Adventure Release Date: 10/21/2014 It’s been eight years since Dreamfall: The Longest Journey first came out. Likewise, there was a six year gap between The Longest Journey and Dreamfall. After a successful Kickstarter campaign that exceeded the original $850,000 goal,…

A Bird Story Developer: Freebird Games Publisher: Freebird Games Genre: Adventure Release Date: 11/07/2014 Telling a story without using any words presents a special challenge, because that precludes any dialogue or narration to carry the characters and plot and convey them in a manner that’s understandable to the audience. That’s exactly what A Bird Story…

The Detail Review Genre: Adventure Developer: Rival Games Ltd Publisher: Rival Games Ltd Release Date: 10/28/2014 Please note that this is a review of one chapter of an ongoing episodic series, and not a complete review. The Detail is a point and click adventure game in the style of recent TellTale games such as The…

Dungeon of the Endless (PC) Publisher: AMPLITUDE Studios Developer: AMPLITUDE Studios Genre: Real Time Strategy RPG Release Date: 10/27/2014 Calling Dungeon of the Endless a Real Time Strategy RPG is a bit of a misnomer, but it’s the closest I could really get to defining it. There are real time strategy elements, RPG elements, randomly…

The Sacred Tears TRUE Developer: AlphaNuts Publisher: Nyu Media Genre: RPG Release Date: 09/25/2014 Nyu Media has brought quite a few doujin games over from Japan, primarily shooters like the eXceed games and GIGANTIC ARMY. They also released the visual novel Cherry Tree High Comedy Club (and are working on the sequel). The Sacred Tears…

Shadowgate Developer: Zojoi Publisher: Zojoi Genre: Adventure Release Date: 08/21/2014 I remember this game from the NES days. This is despite me being a home computer gamer during, and after, the great video game crash of 1983. I had never encountered Shadowgate prior to its re-release on the NES. I didn’t even know there was…

Five Nights at Freddy’s Genre: Adventure/Horror Developer: Scott Cawthon Publisher: Scott Cawthon Release Date: 8/18/2014 The horror genre hadn’t seen a lot of huge strides forward this year; while there are more than a few decent indie releases poking around here and there, nothing transcendent had really risen to the forefront, and honestly, Dark Souls…