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There is a particular kind of amnesia, rare in a genre that usually hands you a diary and a tragic flashback, in waking up on an island and discovering that home is a word with no furniture in it. The trees are still trees. The hunger is still hunger. The first thing that tries to eat you is not a metaphor. Far Lands, the lightweight open-world survival game from Scalpel Softworks, is built on tha...[Read More]

There is a particular kind of loyalty, rare in a year that usually hands you a remaster and a slider, in watching a 1995 arcade hero decide the only honest job is still to run, jump, and shoot a kingdom of toys that learned to bite. The pendulum is missing. Scrubby is not subtle. The ponytailed action figure you just spawned is already late for a cabinet that no longer exists. Biomechanical Toy (Q...[Read More]

There is a particular kind of greed, rare in a genre that usually hands you a ship and a spread, in watching a mechanical snake decide that every new segment is both a gun and a problem. The cores are arriving. The doctor is not subtle. The tail you just built is already late for its own funeral. Mechaconda, the top-down bullet-hell from solo shop Nato Games and publisher QUByte Interactive, is bu...[Read More]