Tom Ravencroft, Author at MonsterVine

Shadows Awakening Review – It’s A Dead Man’s Party

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the modern era, there was a genre of game called Diablo clones. They were usually isometric, overhead...

Tom RavencroftSeptember 5, 2018

Writing antiheroes is tricky: They’re going to do bad things, but you want to root for them in some way. Sometimes you want to...

Tom RavencroftAugust 14, 2018

Gamers like to think of the world of game development as a halcyon wonderland where dreams become reality and everyone gets rich being a...

Tom RavencroftAugust 13, 2018

Every genre under the sun gets a massive reboot, but the twin-stick shooter remains a niche. There’s the occasional great title like Helldivers or...

Tom RavencroftJuly 31, 2018

VR hype seems to be hitting the cold, hard truth of reality. VR on Xbox went to a nice farm upstate to run and...

Tom RavencroftJuly 6, 2018

Omensight begins with the bad news: The world is ending. It’s not this week’s Twitter angst. It’s very clear early on in the game...

Tom RavencroftMay 29, 2018

If you like your games depressing, but informative, then 11 bit studios is your developer of choice. This War of Mine took us to...

Tom RavencroftMay 3, 2018