Tacoma (Xbox One)
With their game Gone Home, Fullbright helped propel narrative exploration into the mainstream, and while it also lead to that
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Gato Roboto (Xbox One)
While the exploration focused platformers that make up the Metroidvania genre are often defined by their large interconnected maps full
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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One)
When the original Gears of War hit the Xbox 360, it ushered in a new era of shooting games. Winning
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TimeShift (Xbox 360)
Many years back, I got my nephew TimeShift for Christmas, believing the mix of first-person shooting and time manipulating mechanics
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Sparklite (Xbox One)
Genre names are important to helping people have a basic idea what a game will be like in only a
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Harry Potter for Kinect (Xbox 360)
The Harry Potter universe is certainly one of the more popular franchises for fans to imagine themselves in. Seven school
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Outer Wilds (Xbox One)
You have 22 minutes until you and your entire solar system are enveloped in an abrupt supernova. As a fledgling
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The Haunted Hoard: Carrion (Xbox One)
Carrion bills itself as a reverse horror game, wherein rather than being the heroes who hunt down a rampaging murderous
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The Haunted Hoard: Close to the Sun (Xbox One)
Horror and historical fiction come together aboard the steampunk ship known as the Helios in Storm in a Teacup’s horror
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The Haunted Hoard: Cold Fear (Xbox)
Released seven years before Resident Evil: Revelations took survival horror to the high seas but only two months after Resident
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse (Xbox 360)
During the era of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, many classic video game series were receiving gritty reboots. The
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360)
For many years, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis had hoped to create a third movie in the Ghostbusters film franchise,
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The Haunted Hoard: Dead Space: Ignition (Xbox 360)
After the first Dead Space game wowed players with its atmospheric horror enhanced by a sci-fi outer space setting, it
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Pinball Palooza: Demon’s Tilt (Xbox One)
At first, hearing a pinball video game only has one table can be a bit disheartening. On the surface, such
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Quality Time: Wandersong (Xbox One)
My experience when I learned about the game Wandersong is not only one common to many gamers, but to the
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Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (Xbox)
Usually, when I mention a game on The Game Hoard that I’m only now getting around to playing after playing
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Xbox 360)
Japanese game developers frequently draw on the Chinese novel Journey to the West in their games, the most common element
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Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Xbox One)
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is a game about reverse bike hikes. Rather than winding your way up a mountain path, this
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Bee Simulator (Xbox One)
When a game identifies itself as a simulator, it’s usually one of two things. It could be an attempt to
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The Guy Game (Xbox)
Back before free adult content was just a search bar away, people looking for such things essentially had to pay
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Scaler (Xbox)
Scaler is a game that can’t wait to get to its fantasy world, its opening cutscene immediately throwing you into
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