Category Games

Articles concerning games, including all manner of video game reviews.

Why Pay to Play Games Are Ruining Video Games

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With the development of app-based games came a new and accessible way for games developers to cash in on the games they were creating. Instead of a one-time upfront cost, developers were coming up with new schemes to part players…

Life is Strange – A Full Review

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Part of my problem with blogging is I like to dabble in lots of things which makes my blog broad and hard to define. For a while I have been enjoying The Subtext’s game reviews and I wanted to give…

The Order: 1886 Review – A Subtext Quick Review

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This is The Subtext and I’m Dan and welcome – today we’re going to be doing a The Order: 1886 review, released in 2015 for PS4, developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony. Introduction to the Game It’s…

Get Even Review – By the Subtext

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This is The Subtext and I’m Dan and this is my Get Even Review. Get Even is a curious title, developed by The Farm 51 and published by Bandai Namco – it feels like a modern-day AA game – the…

The ABC Murders Review – The Subtext

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This is The Subtext and I’m Dan. This Christmas the BBC’s airing a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot so I thought it’d be fun to do an ABC Murders review of…

Kona Nintendo Switch Review: An Underrated Gem?

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Welcome to The Subtext – I’m Dan and this is my third game review that ties in with my YouTube channel! The two games we’ve looked at so far, Detention and Knock Knock, have been a bit on the unconventional…