Non-linear and explorative games are a mortal weakness of mine. I’ve always had a deep love for games that encourage me to immerse myself head-first into danger-fraught digital worlds, overcoming their challenges and uncovering their many secrets. Today, we’ll be taking a few minutes to examine an old favorite of mine – 1994’s System Shock…
Released on Steam back in 2015 by The Pompous Pixel, Dustbowl is an ambitious adventure RPG heavily influenced by other series of post-apocolyptic games such as Fallout, Metro, Wasteland, and STALKER. Featuring retro stylings, open world exploration, a smattering of simple survival elements, and a fairly hearty amount of character dialog, Dustbowl unapologetically wears its many…
Finally answering some questions left on everyone’s tongues after E3 2018! That narrator seems a bit odd, though. I didn’t realize I was watching a nature documentary.
Check out Heat Signature: A Love Letter on the 2 Headed Hero YouTube channel for our animated takes on the game’s final form! HEAT SIGNATURE’S spaceship-infiltrating guerilla tactics gameplay combines pause time strategy with top-down shooting and puzzle mechanics to present a beautifully-woven formula of skillful and cerebral gameplay. I, for one, have developed an unhealthy amount…
The 2 Headed Hero has spent many an hour in monster lairs, deadly dungeons, and vast castles. We like to think that we know our RPGs, and 1993’s Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos from Westwood Studios and Virgin Interactive was a catalyst during our formative years as young PC gamers. In light of the…
A video version of this Lands of Lore retrospective is available on the 2 Headed Hero YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the channel for more Backlog Quest episodes! Read on for the edited text version. HEYYYY KIIIIDS! Do ya like dungeon crawlers? Do ya like DOS games? Are you an old geezer like me that even…
A poorly impersonated Patrick Stewart joins the 2 Headed Hero on the newest Backlog Quest analysis and retrospective! Today’s episode is a look back on one of our favorite RPGs from our formative years: Westwood’s Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. Check out the full video analysis on 2 Headed Hero’s YouTube channel! This…
We pit four Battle Royales against each other in our special celebration episode! Gaijin’s Cuisine Royale, HiRez’s Realm Royale, Landfall’s Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, and the browser-based Surviv.io duke it out for the ultimate in bragging rights. Expect Tarantino references, badly voice acted Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson impressions, golf claps, and arterial spray in this…
Before I start my review, I’d like to get one thing straight: I am not the biggest fan of Rogue Likes. Yes, I just played through 13+ hours of Moonlighter, a Rogue-Like, and now am writing what I hope is an unbiased review based entirely on its merits, but this is where I stand.…
Disclaimer: Hearts and Barrels has a partnership with Humble Bundle. What’s Humble Monthly, you may ask? Well, it’s a monthly game bundle provided by the folks over at humblebundle.com. What you get each month is a grab bag of well-rated Steam games typically valuing in the realm of $200, while only costing you $12/month. You…