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MNJ: It almost feels like it was yesterday that I played Trine for the first time. A real marvel of a game, it was. Not only did it feature beautiful graphics and phenomenal physics, but there were also some really good puzzles to be found as the three unlikely heroes made their way through the given encounters. It was a different kind of sidescroller/platformer, and people recognized the value of this new title. Two years later, Trine 2 was released for the general public to enjoy. This title was a much-improved version of an already brilliant game. With even prettier visuals and more dynamic sequences, Trine 2 was better in virtually every way, except maybe for the puzzles, which were now a tad bit too easy for my taste. After these two games and a hefty expansion, there was little place for improvement and thus Frozenbyte, the developer, had to come up with something new for the series third installment. Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is, then, the seemingly final evolutionary...

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HG: The previous two The Guild games may well be the reason for the lack of hair on my head. I loved both medieval life simulators to bits and spent weeks tweaking my business, buying up or forcefully taking over rival businesses and carefully navigating my family towards political power. My hair, however, suffered. Numerous bugs, poor AI, illogical behaviour of your business managers and a slew of other problems had me pulling my hair out of sheer frustration. Yet, I could not stop playing.

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HG: When I told Matt that we were going to see a new adventure titled Kathy Rain this Gamescom, he immediately said That must be a detective story, and it was. Kathy Rain is a self-confessed love letter of its lead designer Joel Staaf Hästö to adventure games from the nineties. Actually, it might even be a love letter to the nineties itself, a time which lends itself far better for a good detective story than the world of today. Budding detectives could not look everything up on the Internet, cellphones were a rarity and to go somewhere you mostly used your own navigation skills.

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HG: It is hard to believe that everything that we have seen of Shiness (pronounced by the guys of Enigami as Shyness) so far was all achieved with just the Kickstarter budget, which was a few bucks shy of $140.000. For an Indie game, this blend between RPG and martial-arts style fighting certainly looks impressive.

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HG: Set on the dangerous railroads of 19th Century America, Bounty Train is a game about managing carriages, fighting off bandits and ultimately achieving revenge against those who have betrayed you. You are Walter Reed, son of a hugely successful railroad tycoon. However, after his death, your fathers former partners betrayed your family name and have taken control of the company. Its up to you to get the shareholders back on your side and take back what is rightfully yours.

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HG: If you are a long-time Settlers fan, youll probably agree with me that the series went off the rails from Heritage of Kings onwards. Settlers 7 was an enjoyable experience but still nothing like the original games. The team at Funatics, having worked on several Settlers titles, must have looked at how the series has evolved and thought to themselves what was wrong with the original games? and cooked up the idea behind Valhalla Hills.

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HG: When you sit down with the good folks of Team 17, you have a 50/50 chance to see something Worms related. Or so I thought, and then they showed us Sheltered, a post-apocalyptic survival game. It was unfortunate that Team 17s announcement of Sheltered more or less coincided with that of Fallout Shelter. Yet seeing the game in action, it quickly became apparent just how different two post-nuclear-bunker-expansion-and-survival (say that quickly 5 times) games can get. And Im not just talking about the pixel art.

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HG: There are plenty of Warhammer games in development right now across all sorts of genres. This one, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr, is an action RPG, and is also going for the longest name out of all of them. In it, you play as an Inquisitor of the Imperium of Man, as the title would suggest. Where martyr comes into it remains to be seen, but theres not a lot of mystery in the meaning of the word.

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Josh from SR writes, "Its hard to get me on board when a game requires a persistent online connection. I could argue for hours as to why I think its such a bad move, reframing people without good internet to play the game offline and without lag, if they so choose."