Young Suns is an optimistic life sim for an unoptimistic time coming in November, and I’m already forming intense opinions about its cast of NPCs

If you had to move to another planet in our solar system, which would you pick? Me, I’d go Neptune. I’ve always thought it’s underrated, as our neighbours go, and it’s a particularly pleasing shade of blue. I would die immediately due to cold and pressure, which I guess is a problem. I guess that…

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Escape From Playtime is a co-op survival horror where you play itsy-bitsy toy animals, and its playtest is taking signups now

There is, you must admit, something a bit disconcerting about children’s toys. The sightless eyes, the static expressions—it all combines into a hollow unpersonhood that triggers some ancient, primeval fear in the low regions of your brain. Something that also doesn’t help: the unslakeable lust for murder. Alright, that last part maybe does not apply…

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Lemonade Apocalypse has 3 simple tasks for you: Become a lemonade billionaire, ‘fuel climate change,’ and ‘manipulate voters’

I’ll tell you this right now: I’m already into what Lemonade Apocalypse is putting down. Let me count the reasons. First, its PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct reveal trailer is a very fun satire of both billionaires and the billionaire-mindset podcast industrial complex. Two, I think it will tickle the parts of my brain that…

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