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Idle RPGs, MMOs, browser games and mobile RPGs, taken apart properly. Every review carries a score out of 10, what the game does well, what it does badly, and the kind of player it is actually for.

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Horse Manager

Horse Manager is a $2.99 solo-developed management sim from André Cerqueira that asks a simple question: what if you ran a horse racing stable, rendered entirely in charming retro

6.5 / 10

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Nightsoil

Nightsoil casts you as an old gong farmer working his last night shift in cholera-ravaged 1854 London — a man who cleans privies and empties chamber pots for a living, accompanied

6.5 / 10

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Rusty Seas

Rusty Seas is a $19.99 furry-themed beat-'em-up from solo developer Don't Feed the Wuff, following a wolf girl named Mirig as she collects washed-up salvage and dunks rival

7 / 10

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Swiftrace Canyon

Swiftrace Canyon is a fast, momentum-based racing platformer starring a meerkat who really wants to win. Developed and published solo by Optimotter and priced at $11.99, it landed

7 / 10

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Tearscape

Tearscape is a $10.49 top-down action RPG from NERDS TAKE OVER that wears its influences proudly: Game Boy Color-era Zelda games on the exploration side, Bloodborne and the broader

7.5 / 10

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EDENS ZERO Review: A Scrappy, Sincere Trip Through Hiro Mashima's Cosmos

KONAMI's action-RPG adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga trades budget and polish for genuine affection for its source material, delivering a combat system that starts stiff but blossoms, a story that ends before it should, and one of the deepest costume systems in anime gaming.

6 / 10

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