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1 week ago | 
fingerguns.net | Joshua Thompson
We’re nearly halfway through the year, and I already can’t quite keep up with all of the indie games. Is that due in part to the fact that Blue Prince has got me completely lost in the rooms and halls of Mt. Holly? Sure. But there’s also a much larger problem on the horizon – a lot of brilliant titles releasing. Last month, Promise Mascot Agency got a perfect score at Finger Guns with its bombastic and reverent take on the management sim genre.
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2 weeks ago | 
fingerguns.net | Joshua Thompson
Photo modes have been one of my favourite aspects of video games over the past few generations. The ability to take stylish screenshots of a game’s world or create a masterpiece to feed into my amateur photographer tendencies is a perfect side objective to get lost in. But what if taking photos wasn’t just a side gig to saving the day but the main mission? Lushfoil Photography Sim is just that… Until it’s not, unfortunately.
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2 weeks ago | 
fingerguns.net | Joshua Thompson
Photo modes have been one of my favourite aspects of video games over the past few generations. The ability to take stylish screenshots of a game’s world or create a masterpiece to feed into my amateur photographer tendencies is a perfect side objective to get lost in. But what if taking photos wasn’t just a side gig to saving the day but the main mission? Lushfoil Photography Sim is just that… Until it’s not, unfortunately.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Ross Keniston |Miles Thompson |Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen
The gang react to the Nintendo Switch 2 full reveal event! The price! The date! The games! The price of the games! The bloody price of the games! Join us won’t you?!Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we’d really appreciate it. Thank you. To download the MP3 of this episode, right-click here. Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson |Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen
Remember Journey? Of course you do. At this point, it’s as ubiquitous in the video game space as a Call of Duty or FIFA. Well, relatively speaking, of course. Studio Tolima have taken all the hallmarks of that 2012 indie classic and reimagined it to focus on the environment, plight of animal life, and an adorable pup companion. Its nose quite literally lights up the way – what more needs to be said?
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen |Miles Thompson
Few games succeed in challenging expectations. There’s an inherent patience asked of the player to sit with something perplexing, and for Centum, this is a big ask. On the surface, the game is a point-and-click adventure meets an escape room. However, it tries to deliver way more than just a comparable point-and-click, as the game strives to subvert how we look at AI, life and the medium of games.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Toby Andersen |Miles Thompson |Joshua Thompson
Trails Through Daybreak II has been out just over a month and true to form, that means Falcom need to throw their next game at you. Trails Beyond The Horizon. Most of us have barely finished the last one before a new trailer hits your eyeballs, spoiling everything. If you haven’t finished Daybreak II, fair warning, maybe don’t watch the trailer below, but for everyone else, feast your eyes.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson |Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen
Memory is a funny old thing. One moment you can recall an event with almost perfect clarity, then all of a sudden without realising, the details go fuzzy, the structure doesn’t line up, and we claw at the previous ability we had to remember it. KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person psychological horror game that absorbs itself in the endless possibility of memories. In a world where people can re-live the past events of others, almost nothing is off limits.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson |Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen |Greg Hicks
The First Berserker: Khazan plays like an amalgamation of all the spin offs of the Souls genre. The level structure and loot of Nioh, the dark fantasy roots of Berserk and Bloodborne, anime visuals akin to Code Vein. If you can name a motif that’s been inspired from Miyazaki’s seminal series, chances are you’ll find it here too. However, to call The First Berserker: Khazan a mere imitation of other titles would be to do it a massive disservice, a mistake I’d implore people not to make.
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1 month ago | 
fingerguns.net | Joshua Thompson |Toby Andersen |Greg Hicks |Ross Keniston
Much of what gets labelled the trendy moniker of cosy game are titles that do a decent job of checking the familiar boxes, more so than feeling like a refreshing cup of tea. The buzzword has felt a little diluted in recent years. And whilst there isn’t anything inherently wrong with X game having X setting but “make it cosy” as a premise, I now have a bit of trepidation before going into anything labelled as such.
