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Will RailGods of Hysterra Be Fired Up and Ready for Travel in April?

Hopefully, the developers corrected the issues I found in the demo release for RailGods of Hysterra’s Early Access.

Early Access Will Be Available on April 10, 2025

Troglobytes Games’ RailGods of Hysterra is a survival game which needs an accessibility option if I’m going to keep playing. That’s because the text was incredibly tiny! Even on a 45 inch screen, I had trouble reading and there were no in-game controls to adjust contrast. I spent a week with the demo before deciding to get my eyes checked. They’re good, but even when I revisited it, I struggled with reading.

When there’s a game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s fantasy world known as the Dreamlands. I’m certainly excited. Although it doesn’t borrow from any of ths stories, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time to find tie-in material. For now, this game is about surviving this world. When this version mixes up resource management, item builds and land exploration, I better be careful about what’s ’round the corner.

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In Rewinding Games’ Wild Demo of Roots Devour, Playing a Hungry Monster is Easy!

And we know which entity the player’s avatar will become in the intro to Roots Devour! Read on for our spoiler regarding whom that Great Old One is.

Spoiler Alert

Roots Devour is a puzzle solving game by Rewinding Games set in some dark woodland area, where players can play the villain! It borrows from H.P. Lovecraft‘s writings and perhaps Evil Dead too. That’s because the creature I’m playing had to seek not-so-innocent vertebrates to drink their blood! They give form I’m in the required essence to survive and grow. As the name suggests, it’s about extending a living tree’s roots to as far as they can go!

What’s effectively creepy is the fog of war which envelops this game. I’m never within it, and unless I extend the roots to explore, what’s revealed are either difficult terrain or playing cards. They represent either various aspects of a dying forest or victims I can either drain or have to figure a way around! This maze took more than a few tries to reach any place meaningful. Continue reading “In Rewinding Games’ Wild Demo of Roots Devour, Playing a Hungry Monster is Easy!”

From Wild Arms to Armed Fantasia, This Video Game is Worth Waiting For!

The best part of why Wild Arms is so beloved is because of the music first, and world building second. It lives again under a new name: Armed Fantasia!

Armed Fantasia- To the End of the Wilderness Prromo Poster When I last wrote a retrospective that included the latest status of the Wild Arms franchise, not much has changed. Although the original is available on the PlayStation5, sadly no one is interested in continuing. There was a Wild Arms Mobile and Million Memories for smartphones, but sadly when it didn’t get translated and offered to an international market, the game died. Thankfully, executive producer Akifumi Kaneko is not letting the world he helped create fade. In its place is a spiritual successor titled Armed Fantasia, which is still in development.

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Attack on Titan VR’s First Global Challenge is Coming!

The first collaberative effort to bring Attack on Titan VR to life comes in a challenge for players (as members of the Survey Corps) take on a coming onslaught!

Press Release

Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable, developer UNIVRS’ first-person action-adventure VR platformer based on the highly acclaimed manga circulated around the world to over 140 million fans, challenges Scout Regiment members with the new “Global Challenge – Thunder Spear Unlock” event, running from Wednesday, Feb. 26th at 10:00 PM PST to Sunday, March 9th at 11:59 PM PDT.

“Global Challenge – Thunder Spear Unlock” allows players to work together and pool points in the hopes of unlocking the powerful Thunder Spear for the entire community. During this limited-time Global Challenge event, Scouts will be able to play co-op mode with friends who own Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable (Part 1) without needing to purchase the Armored Titan Expansion Pack (Part 2) content.

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More Love Sim than S4U: Citypunk 2011 and Love Punch

Interpersonal relationships drive and define what players must engage in with S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH. It’s less about being in front of the computer and more on what smelling the roses must mean in this unique indie video game.

To play through a video game that is more hypertext driven than graphical can be a hard sell these days. Although the graphics are few and far between in S4U: Citypunk 2011 And Love Punch, thankfully there is some when the avatar decides to leave the computer. Just what U0U Games‘ latest product represents is quaint and a test of patience since reading all the dialogue is important.

Technically, you’re interacting in an environment reminiscent of ICQ and those older chat programs before the coming of Facebook. The world is circa 2010, but I don’t remember the graphical user interface that dated. While navigating that old operating system took getting used to, memories of dealing with Windows 98 were once a nightmare! Although the retro elements are rather heartwarming, is it enough to keep me going?

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From Dec 2024 with Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable to Last Attack in 2025, is this IP Over?

To compare Spider-Man VR to Attack on Titan VR wouldn’t be fair. Both came out about the same time last month, but neither are fully complete.

Attack on Titan VR Unbreakable Card I suspect not every fan of Hajime Isayama‘s best-known series will rush to play Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable (AoTVR). Developer UNIVRSE provided an early access version early last year, and it was playable. However, bugs made some aspects difficult. Last month, version 1.0 was made public on various platforms, including the Meta 2, which I played on.

One good thing about this virtual reality game is that nobody needs prior knowledge about the anime/manga to enjoy. The introduction brings gamers up to speed. I wanted a first-person perspective of being eaten! There are some scary moments put into getting picked up by one! Unfortunately, this experience doesn’t get that visceral because that would require a personal computer system to render all the graphic detail.

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