While secret clubs and organizations might seem like things of the past, in The Secret Order: Masked Intent you'll play as Sarah, the daughter of the leader of the Order of the Griffins. After receiving a phone call from your father explaining that one of their own has turned traitor, you'll need to dive into an adventure of epic proportions to stop the traitor and save your father before it's too late.
One of my favorite parts of Legend of Dungeon comes right at the beginning of a fresh round. Emerging from the video game aether through double doors at the top of the screen, your pixelated hero or heroine descends a stone staircase into the hearth of a cozy tavern. A fire crackles invitingly in the corner, adventurers of all stripes mill around the common area, and apples and ale line two central tables. It's here, for the first and last time in the game, that I feel totally safe.
Slam Bolt Scrappers is one of those video game experiences that you can sense is definitely onto something special with its core concept, but unfortunately fails to capitalize on the idea fully.
There's usually a definitive moment in games that allows you to gauge how you're going to feel about them, good or bad. That moment in Doom & Destiny is its very first scene: a mysterious villain is attempting to open the demonic Ultraworld via virginal sacrifice, but is thwarted thanks to a party that got a little out of hand the night before. He declares a need for a virgin replacement—cut to our four heroes, on their way to a Dungeons & Dragons game night.
As far as hidden object games go, European Mystery: Scent of Desire is something of a mixed bag. All told, it's a confounding blend of tired narrative ideas and innovative puzzles and its developers play fast and loose with period references (in it you'll see Medieval plague doctor outfits, 18th century tri-corn hats and early 20th century Gibson girls). Despite its cavalier attitude toward historical accuracy however, it remains an impressive and worthwhile hidden object game.
In A Wizard's Curse, you play as a young magic apprentice who gets tasked with tracking down a brilliant and insane master wizard,as he wanders the countryside turning people into stone. It's a cool idea in theory, but one that falls incredibly short in execution, and coupled with short, repetitive, and uninspired gameplay, this is one hidden object adventure whose spell has not only been broken, but damaged beyond repair.
We celebrate rhythm's ability to transcend cultural barriers and bring us together, but if Rhythm Destruction is any indication, phat beats are capable of ripping us apart, too. And not just flesh and bone—we're talking alien space craft.
Brick-Force is a browser-based and/or downloadable first-person multiplayer shooter that has been doing the rounds for quite a while now. In more recent months the game's popularity has really picked up pace, especially when it launched via games portal behemoth Kongregate last month.