GameOn Magazine - Issue 176 - July 2024

In this issue

Welcome to issue 177 of The GameOn Magazine! So many games shown during Not-E3! Over 400 at my count, which is more than last year despite what celebrity videogames-adjacent personalities had claimed. Although they actually didn’t have one more thing…

Articles this month look at cheaters, backlogs, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. There are looks back, looks ahead, and generally this issue looks all over the place. One of our writers played Helldivers 2 and realised that it’d be a good starting block for a Warhammer game, in case liberty is what you need this month.

In the preview section we have a bunch of Early Access titles, with Alana sliding a Sledders, Mike deciding it’s Time to Morp, and Tina digging for the Roots of Yggdrasil. Also, Violet drank the BattleJuice Alchemist, while Luke got loaded on Cabernet.

Finally, the reviews have us playing catch-up with some of the great and not-so-great games released over the past few months. Adam entered A Living Room while Dylan visited the POOLS, and Alyssa sniffed some Distant Bloom. Meanwhile, Joshua raised the Undead Inc., Alana scritched the Little Kitty, Big City, and Violet planned Rusty's Retirement!

There’s plenty more, of course, so just get to reading and GameOn until next issue!

So I Tried... Papa's Freezeria Deluxe

Dylan played a game - Each edition of So I Tried… I will try a game that I have never played before. Will I find something new to love? Will I find something new to despise? I'll take a full half hour to see if this is the game for me, no matter how bad it gets or how badly I do, to see if this is the game for me. This time I decided to go and play Papa’s Freezeria Deluxe. I admit this was an impulse buy because I saw a few streamers playing it, and I decided to give it a go.

2 mins

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed DLC Diaries (Tatooine)

This is my ongoing exploration of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed where I will chronicle my playthrough like a text-based Let's Play. This time I play the DLC for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Tatooine.

4 mins

Valve, Anti-cheat, And Privacy

One of the biggest complaints the community has about Counter-Strike 2 is the amount of cheaters present in high-ranked matches.

2 mins

With Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Announced, It's Time I Finish the First

When Kingdom Come: Deliverance first came out, I fell in love with the experience.

2 mins

From the Top: God of War (2018)

Just under a year ago, I started my own little Heraclean task of playing through the whole of the God of War series — at least the ones I could get my hands on— all to prepare myself for the soft reboot of the series, God of War (2018).

7 mins

HELLDIVERS 2 Could Hold the Key to the Warhammer Game We Really Want

I recently started playing HELLDIVERS 2, and, while it has become something of an obsession, I had a thought: I was playing as an underequipped, undertrained recruit of a vaguely sinister regime against hordes of alien enemies. I was, in essence, an imperial guardsman.

2 mins

Time to Morp

With the recent preview of Time to Morp in this issue, the lovely folks over at Team HalfBeard took some time out of their schedule to talk to us before its release.

6 mins

Sledders

If you have ever had the opportunity to ride a snowmobile, I have a game that allows you to recreate that experience and won’t require you to freeze your buttocks off.

2 mins

Cabernet

I can’t entirely recall how I ended up coming across Cabernet, just that I knew one day that I wanted to give it a look.

3 mins

Roots of Yggdrasil

Roots of Yggdrasil centres around the survivors of Ragnarök— the end and rebirth of the nine worlds, according to Norse mythology, brought on by an epic battle of the gods.

2 mins

One Last Breath

Crikey, looks a lot like INSIDE, this, doesn’t it? I mean, a lot.

3 mins

The Lost Legends of Redwall: Feasts & Friends

The Lost Legends of Redwall: Feasts & Friends is a cooking simulator based on the Redwall book series.

3 mins

Little Kitty, Big City

I have anxiously been awaiting the release of Little Kitty, Big City since I first saw the announcement years ago, on the 13th of November 2021.

4 mins

Survival: Fountain of Youth

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a uh, well, you can tell from the title. It’s a survival game developed by Odinsoft Inc. and published by Twin Sails Interactive and CE-Asia.

5 mins

Men of War II

There was a time when games based on World War II were all the rage, with releases ranging from first-person shooters to stealth based espionage.

3 mins

SAND LAND

As someone who doesn't watch a lot of anime or read a ton of manga, I was very surprised to find out that Akira Toriyama had done more than just Dragon Ball.

8 mins

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