Hi everyone! You may have noticed that this installment of My Week Unwrapped is another day late. There was a death in my family yesterday and I was a bit overwhelmed. I almost skipped it completely this week, but then I realized that would make next week's ridiculously long, especially since there's some big releases both this week and next week. So here we are with a very late roundup of all…
Powerless By: Narratio My first experience with the narrative choose-your-own-adventure type game, Powerless, by Narratio, was a positive one. After spending about thirty minutes with it, I wrote here how impressed I was with it, that it seemed very polished. I didn't encounter many spelling or grammar mistakes, the writing was strong, and the stories were interesting to me. I liked how you choose different characters -- or personas -- and then…
Hello guys and gals and welcome back to My Week Unwrapped, where I discuss the games I've been playing over the last seven days. I was focusing a lot on a few games, so this won't be a terribly long post. But it's still chock full o' great games, whether you like puzzles, action or point-and-click adventures. So let's get started! EvergardenI had Flippfly's gorgeous Evergarden a couple of days before release…
Barbearian, Unavowed, Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes, Evergarden, Powerless, The Company Game, The Lone SurvivorHi everyone and welcome back to another late installment of My Week Unwrapped, where I discuss all the games I've been playing over the last seven days. I pushed it off to another Wednesday so I could fit more games into it. This week was a little odd in that I decided on a whim that I…
Powerless By: Narratio Narratio's upcoming Powerless has a compelling pitch. It's advertised as an "interactive doomsday simulator," and its goal is to put the player into realistic life-and-death situations to see how they would react and whether they could survive. You play as multiple different characters as they try to make it out alive after a coronal mass ejection (CME) kills all power on Earth, causing mass destruction. Each character comes in…