If you love fantasy RPGs but feel intimidated by the likes of Gloomhaven or Arydia (or have limited experience with the genre), this is where you start. HeroQuest is accessible and easy to play but has enough meat on the bone to avoid becoming dull after a session or two. It’s not as empowering as the competition, of course, but it’s a great on-ramp for them. Blue Prince is a roguelite puzzle game where you draft room tiles to try to build out from the Entrance Hall in search of the mysterious Room 46. I’m an avid fan of puzzle games that require you to break out the pad and paper, so when I tell you that I reached Room 46 at about 18 hours of gameplay, but I’ve currently got 68 hours played there’s a lot more to Blue Prince than meets the eye. The InZOI Steam launch is finally here, and the new life and simulation game is already a huge hit in terms of reviews and player count.
While it retains some of its predecessor’s flaws, that’s part of the charm. Rooms that you’ll have passed through literally 100 times will be revealed to hold incredible secrets once a certain clue has been deciphered. An easy example of this might be if you’re looking to light a candle, to do so you’d need to combine the Metal Detector and a Magnifying Glass.
Luke contributed regularly to PLAY Magazine as well as PC Gamer, SFX, The Guardian, and Eurogamer. Writing many, many words for the last 18 issues of GamesMaster, something he’ll eagerly tell anybody who’ll listen (and anybody who won’t). While happy to try his hand at anything, he’s particularly fond of FPS games, strong narratives, and anything with a good sense of humour. He is also in a competition with his eldest child to see who can be the most enthusiastic fan of the Life is Strange series. The interconnected open world maps, taken as a whole, make up an area significantly smaller than most open world games of recent years. But this ‘less is more’ philosophy works to the game’s benefit.
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You don’t need someone to play as Zargon if you’d prefer to be on the same side, though. Teams (or solo players) can use the HeroQuest app to play as Zargon for them, telling you where to place foes and throwing in some ’80s style smack talk as well. Set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, Indy embarks on a globe-trotting chase to recover a stolen museum artifact tied to an ancient mystery. It’s great to watch an in-game likeness of a young Harrison Ford, but hearing famed voice actor Troy Baker’s fantastic performance faithfully brings him to life.
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