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Darkest Dungeon

Review: Darkest Dungeon – Red Hook Studios

Darkest Dungeon is a ruthless progression-based role-playing dungeon crawler, mixing elements of traditional fantasy with the writings of Lovecraft and Poe in a merciless grind through the manor of your ancestor.

Review: Oats Studios – Neill Blomkamp

This assembly of short (and some really short) films by Neill Blomkamp is not a series so much as an assemblage set of cinematographic thought experiments that gives some insights into what moves Blomkamp as an artist.

Review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Disney

Percy Jackson – named after the hero Perseus in ancient Greek mythology – is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy trying to survive in a world that thinks him weird. After a fateful trip to a museum, however, he quickly finds his world uprooted. Apparently, Greek gods and monsters are not a thing of the distant past, but still very much around. In addition to that, they are all hunting for Percy because he is a demigod.

Sunless Sea

Review: Sunless Sea – Failbetter Games

Sunless Sea is a steampunk rogue-like with elements that harken back to the writings of Coleridge and Poe, in which you sail your dapper vessel across the vastness of the underground Unterzee in search of riches and fame.