Doki Doki Literature Club is the kind of game where the moment it ended, I wanted to spend more time with its characters. Although I'll never be able to play it for the first time again, here are a few games you can check out if you're also yearning for a similar experience.
If you're into indie games and have a Switch, you're drowning in options right now. Even though Stardew Valley and Golf Story are begging to eat up all your free time, don't forget Oxenfree, a charming adventure game about being a teen, and also ghosts.
Good Old Games is having a solid sale right now, but they're not the only ones offering bargains.
Today's episode of Kotaku Splitscreen is all about high school kids and high school squids.
While Oxenfree has already been one of my favourite games of 2016, its 4-6 hour play time means that most players who enjoyed it back in January probably haven't loaded the game up again since then. Now, with the release of Oxenfree on PS4, a game expansion called New Game+ has been added to all platforms.
Alien Isolation is one of my favourite games ever. I tell people this all the time, I discuss the game in depth, I recommend it to everyone -- only, I've never actually finished it.
The game is just so long -- which isn't a bad thing when you like a game, but with a genre like horror, sometimes shorter is better. In fact, the genre is just crawling with amazing, contained experiences, many of them free to download: here are my favourite six.
Oxenfree is one of my favourite games of 2016 so far and, while playing it, I did openly wonder why the hell it wasn't released on consoles.
Now Sony has announced that Oxenfree is coming to the PlayStation 4.
Just over a month ago I put together a list of my ‘most anticipated’ games of 2016.
It was tough. Surprisingly tough. Dark Souls III? Of course. No Man’s Sky? Yep. The Last Guardian? I have my doubts about that one...
Compared to the list I might have made in 2015, 2016 seemed a little sparse.
Here’s what I wrote. I said: “I suspect 2016 will be defined by the surprise packages, the games we don’t even know about yet.”
In my most anticipated games of 2016 list I wrote about how this year will most likely be all about the 'surprises'. It looks like we've already had our first. Oxenfree has had a fair amount of hype. Anyone here played it yet?
Oxenfree won't make you scream. It's not that type of horror game, if it's even a horror game at all. It's not the sort of game that Let's Players and Twitch streamers will milk for entertaining jump scares. Instead, Oxenfree will stick in your mind and leave you unsettled when you're trying to sleep. It'll make you care about seeing its characters safely through its trials. More than anything, Oxenfree will have you coming back for more.
2016 is looking to be an odd one for game releases, at least from this side of the year. Big AAA releases are few and far between, with no hugely anticipated games like last year's Fallout 4. Even Assassin's Creed is rumoured to be giving it a miss. In fact, one of the year's most anticipated games is No Man's Sky, being developed by a small team over in the UK. 2016 could easily turn out to be a great year for both indies and new IPs.
There isn't a great deal of games out there trying to nail the teen thriller/slasher vibe, and the fact that Until Dawn did it so well has resonated with a lot of people.
But come January next year, you'll probably have exhausted all the dialogue choices and totems in Until Dawn. You'll need something new to play. Fortunately, OXENFREE might be just the ticket.
