Culdcept the First (also attributed as Culdcept the First Saturn Tribute) is a very fun game, that does show its age. This is basically a re-issue of the 1997 Sega Saturn game that mashes together deckbuilding (think Magic: The Gathering) and boardgames (such as Monopoly).
With these annual seasonal renewals of the sports season comes the related video games as well, and the question reviewers such as myself always face is this: Is this year’s game worth purchasing one year after the last one? My answer? Yes, absolutely. NBA fans are going to almost certainly enjoy NBA 2K27.
Midnight Moments is a cozy cyberpunk diorama-building game that is stunning. Unlike games that require you to complete quests or take out assailants or even solve challenging puzzles, this one only requires one thing: imagination.
Isle of Reveries is a top down 2D action adventure game that made my nostalgia for old school Zelda games flare up really hard. A good blending of puzzle, exploration, and combat, Isle of Reveries is a wonderful title to experience inside and out.
Let me tell you about this cozy game my daughter and I are playing together called Outbound. Now, I've been following this game from the initial Kickstarter back in April 2025 to its full release in May 2026. The best Mother's Day gift for myself and my first ever collector's edition in a physical copy!
In OVER REQUIEMZ Yuhiru is thrown into the castle of Oz and is immediately accused of trying to assassinate the King and shoved into the dungeon. Not only is she treated like a criminal...
Today we’re looking at what has rapidly become an absolute favorite in the open-world RPG genre for me. An interesting story, memorable NPCs, stunning visuals, and a setting absolutely dripping with flavor, Dread Delusion sets its tone immediately and sticks with it.
...and I have been playing NHL games since. It didn't matter whether it was EA or another game like 2K in the 2000s; I loved hockey games and still do, but is NHL 27 a step in the right direction?
Asdivine Knot is the latest title in the Kemco JRPG library. Following protagonist Verselio, who's on the run from the church that they once served, he'll be accompanied by an odd selection of party members as they all find a reason to band together…
Our story begins in Akihabra, Tokyo Japan. The protagonist Okarin… Or rather Rintaro Okabe, (Voiced by Mamoru Minyano) is a recent high school graduate who rents an apartment with his best friend and resident computer hacker, Itaru ‘Daru’ Hashida (Voiced by Tomokazu Seki) during the summer of 2010.
12 August 2026, Kyiv, Ukraine | Today, after 3 years of turbulent development, Frogwares is proud to say they have released The Sinking City 2 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
The Reception So Far
Currently, the game is sitting at an overall rating of 81 / "Strong" on OpenCritic, along with a 95% approval rating on Steam, and 4.95 / 5 on PSN from the first wave of publically viewable reviews.
"The game opens with a message of thanks to our supporters and then about the struggles of making the game during the war. But we end by saying, 'We believe this is the best game we have ever made,' and we are so happy to see so many critics and players agreeing with this sentiment. We took a massive risk changing genres while still trying to keep what our existing fans love about our games, but it seems to have been the right choice.
-Sergiy Oganesyan, Head of Publishing, Frogwares
About The Sinking City 2
The Sinking City 2 is set in a Lovecraftian vision of 1920s America, in the infamous city of Arkham. A supernatural flood has driven out all but the most deranged residents, leaving decay and eldritch horrors that roam the streets. Step into the role of Calvin Rafferty, an occult adventurer whose cavalier actions have led to devastating consequences. After a dreaming ritual goes wrong, his girlfriend, Faye, is left trapped in a mysterious sleep. Now Calvin must navigate the drowned streets of a derelict city in a desperate attempt to bring her back. On his quest, he’ll come face-to-face with a plague of otherworldly creatures, the Slither, who possess and twist the dead into lethal, walking puppets.
Game Features
Fight to Survive: Use an arsenal of 1920s-inspired weapons to fight against Eldritch abominations.
Explore The Decaying City of Arkham: A world of rotting apartments, flooded markets, and abandoned hospitals that you’ll explore by foot and by boat.
Find and Use What You Can: Scrounge for limited resources and balance a finite inventory as you decide what to bring and what to leave behind.
Choose to Investigate Further: Explore your surroundings more deeply and solve optional cases and puzzles to uncover secrets, upgrades, and lore.
A Twisted Lovecraftian Tale: Experience a captivating and morally gray story of personal loss, woven through the Lovecraftian mythos of occultism and incomprehensible creatures
ABOUT FROGWARES
Founded in 2000, Frogwares is an independent game development studio based in Ukraine and Ireland. We are behind the Sherlock Holmes series and a Lovecraftian detective-horror game series, The Sinking City. Thanks to the work of our talented team of artists and programmers, our games are available for all major platforms, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
Granada, Spain – July 24, 2025 | WildSphere is pleased (or perhaps we should say, revels) to announce the launch of its next horror masterpiece: OXIDE Room 208. This frantic body-horror that promises to turn your worst fears into reality, will arrive digitally tomorrow on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series, Steam and GOG.
Get ready to spend $29.95€ on PC and $34.95€ on consoles and a few screams of horror for a visceral, raw, and unique experience that will leave you breathless...
But that's not all, collectors of the macabre are also in luck! Tesura Games joins the carnage to bring an OXIDE Room 208 Collector's and Standard Editions for PlayStation 5 this Halloween. Stay very, very tuned, because the exact details will be sent to you very soon.
Warning: OXIDE Room 208 is a demented, intense, visceral, and unforgiving experience. If you are a sensitive person, play in public spaces, or plan to stream your game live, be sure to activate "Safe Mode for Streaming" before you start playing. Dare to cross Door 208... if you dare. Stay in touch, horror fans!
Visit WildSphere's social media for more information about Oxide Room 208, gameplay videos, development anecdotes, and much more.
Introduction/Brief Summary
Eight people trapped in an old laboratory find themselves caught up in sinister circumstances as they try to survive their final moments in this action-packed, terrifying body horror game full of gore and madness. Immerse yourself in a nightmare where the boundary between flesh and insanity blurs. Oxide Room 208 challenges you to face your fears in a dark and twisted environment.
Chronology of a massacre. THE STORY
Oxide Room 208 tells the story of eight people who are trapped by the ruthless Doc and forced to be connected to his experiment, Oxide. This dark and twisted place is controlled by Eva, an innocent victim used by Doc in his cruel research to turn her into the host of the experiment. However, Eva's sanity has reached its limit, causing the experiment to spiral out of control and create an organic, hellish environment that transcends reality. Now everyone is trapped in this nightmare filled with grotesque creatures and dangers, inspired by an old motel and the underground laboratory facilities where many atrocities were committed in the name of science. If you want to survive the night, find door 208 and go through it at all costs.
Dissecting the victims (the usual suspects)
Two shady characters trying to shoot a dirty movie with an undercover cop, a cannibal hiker and his fiancée, a rock legend searching for answers, a half-naked madman who seems to feel right at home down there, and two famous streamers from a well-known horror channel will be the perfect victims for the twisted creatures that roam the corridors of Doc's facility, and he has no qualms with mutilate their flesh and twist their memories until they are consumed and nothing remains, keeping hidden his terrible secret and his questionable and unethical experiment.
We all have some secret we can't tell anyone. So don't trust anyone! Some of those present have a much more sinister motive than just escaping from there alive.
When a character dies, there’s a good chance you will see them again, but they will have changed for the worse. Avoid the revenants at all costs!
** All characters in Oxide Room 208 are real actors and actresses digitized using motion capture techniques.
Explore different, eerie environments: Survive your journey through the forest, avoid the creatures lurking in the old mine, enter the underground laboratory where the experiment went haywire, or try to escape with your life through the greenhouse or the old motel while the rest of the survivors rot in the containment cells. Try different paths to avoid deadly encounters or find the armory and let the massacre begin. Visit seven different horror-filled locations that will make your hair stand on end.
Creatures Born of Nightmares
You are not the only one living in hell. The facilities are teeming with grotesque abominations, creatures born of chaos that defy reason. Their murderous intelligence and stealthy movements will relentlessly pursue you. Every encounter with these beings is a blow to the senses, a reminder that terror lurks around every corner, waiting to devour your last glimmer of hope.
When certain creatures see you, they will relentlessly pursue you throughout the facility. But don't just run blindly, because you might end up running into something even worse.
With art focused on the bodyhorror genre and over a dozen different types of foes, Oxide Room 208 will test your sanity.
The Fight for Survival
More than just a game, Oxide Room 208 is an immersive survival experience. Interaction with the environment is visceral: you manage your weapons and resources realistically, feeling every shudder in your hands as you take hold of your destiny. The camera, constantly shifting between the up-close first-person view and the expansiveness of third-person view, gives you a brutally intense experience of every moment.
KEY FEATURES:
Nine Real Characters: Each character is based on actors who were digitally captured using motion capture and facial scanning. Forget simple skins; their stories, scars, and secrets blaze the trail into the unknown.
Organic and chilling environments: From the grim motel hallways to sinister experimental facilities, every location is filled with details that will immerse you in horror.
Immersive dual perspective: Switch between first and third person to experience the horror from every angle and get the most out of your adventures in Oxide Room 208 with photo mode.
Cutting-edge technology: Unreal Engine 5 revolutionizes every scene with ray tracing, stunning dynamic lighting, and realism that will blur the line between fiction and reality.
Top-notch soundtrack and effects: With an exclusive vocal track by legendary rock band Sôber and a playlist curated by the talented ANBR music, we'll prove that rock and horror go hand in hand. Plus, both will be playable characters (ANBR music as Samael Tselios and Carlos Escobedo as Carlos Miller). You’ll experience all this in a terrifying atmosphere filled with sounds and effects that will remind you that you're not alone down there and that something could always jump out of the shadows.
Any last words before entering...?
If you think you have what it takes to face humanity's worst, stare into the abyss and not blink, and dig into a brutally honest storyline, you've come to the right place. Oxide Room 208 is a meat grinder, a space for anyone without fear of being consumed by darkness. The experience is intense, visceral, and unforgiving. Step through Door 208... if you dare to cross over.
WildSphere is a small, indie videogame studio with more than 12 years of experience in the industry. Among their most important titles are “Oxide Room 104”, "Gigantosaurus: The Game", "Timothy vs The Aliens, and “Naught”, publishing on many platforms, including the two latest generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Nintendo Switch and PC.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. and Supermassive Games released a new teaser trailer for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, which illuminates both the title’s driving mysteries and its place within the larger anthological series.
The new trailer can be viewed via the following YouTube link:
Developed by Supermassive Games, the critically-acclaimed studio behind the cult-classic thriller Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of standalone cinematic horror games anchored by three common threads: an unprecedented amount of branching gameplay—even for a Supermassive title—that yields near-limitless replayability; 5 controllable characters (per game) who can all live and die based on the players’ choices; and The Curator, an omnipresent narrator-like figure who seems to know just a little bit too much about Supermassive’s horrifying new universe.
Man of Medan will serve as the maiden voyage for the anthology, offering players a bottomless ocean of chilling experiences to be braved either with a friend or—for the particularly daring—alone. The title is slated to set sail on August 30, 2019 for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Steam® for PC.
