Escape Velocity

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Review: Of Fire and Stars – Audrey Coulthurst

Part 1 of Of Fire and Stars – Princess Dennaleia is betrothed to the prince of a neighboring kingdom to seal an alliance. When she meets her fiance’s sister, princess Amaranthine, the two girls together start investigating a secret that could threaten the kingdom.

Collected: Bioshock by 2K Games

COLLECTION: The once magnificent Underwater City of Rapture is deserted, and as you make your way through its dangerous corridors, you slowly discover what happened to what was once Andrew Ryan’s Utopia.

Rogue One

Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Gareth Edwards

Spin-off of the Star Wars Series – The daughter of the man who designed the Death Star is pressed into the Rebellion’s service to find her father and learn more about the weaknesses of the Empire’s newly constructed superweapon.

Altered Carbon

Review: Altered Carbon – Netflix

In a future in which your consciousness can be downloaded into a machine in your neck, convicted rebel and terrorist Takeshi Kovacs wakes up in a new body, 250 years after being caught, leased to solve the murder of a man rich enough to have survived his own death.

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.

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.

Brass Empire

Review: Brass Empire – Rock Manor Games

This steampunk-themed deck builder sees players compete for the services of the best employees and the most powerful blueprints in a battle for the pile of brass coins in the centre!

Review: KliFi – Adriaan van Dis

In a future Netherlands, the government is controlled by climate denying populists, and Jákob Hemmelbahn witnesses the result of the government’s negligence when a storm washes away the houses of the less fortunate.

Review: Primordia – Wormwood Studios

Primordia is an atmospheric point-and-click-game that follows the journey of the android Horatio Nullbuilt and his sidekick Crispin across a post-apocalyptic wasteland following the theft of their ship’s power core.