Perfect Gold: Love and All That Glitters

With yet another successful Kickstarter project, it is clear that the Filipino developers have been producing highly sought-after games. This time, they introduce a title that is different from their portfolio (the genres of The Letter and Love Esquire are horror and bishoujo, respectively). Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness is a coming-of-age yuri visual novel that highlights love and magic. Will you fall under this game’s spell? Read on to find out.

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Hiker Games makes a second attempt to release a Vietnamese Call of Duty

Does anyone remember 7554? No, this is not the PIN for our company credit card, but the date of one of the most important events in Vietnam’s recent history; the Battle of Diên Biên Phu. With the subtitle “Glorious Memories Revived”, 7554 is also the title of the first game (2011) by Emobi Games from Vietnam. The Call of Duty-style 3D shooter was supposed to present a lesser-known chapter in the history of Vietnam to a broad world audience and at the same time emphasised PC game development in Vietnam. That didn’t work out as intended: Despite good approaches, 7554 was flawed technically and gameplay-wise and is widely considered a failure. Almost ten years after the release, the developers (now Hiker Games) want to try it again, returning with the announcement of another shooter game from a Vietnamese perspective, including a crowdfunding campaign. The name, however, is no less cryptic this time either: 300475.

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Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury Arrives With A Bang

After been featured on our list of new games from Vietnam for two consecutive years, one of our most anticipated games has finally arrived. A sequel to the 2016 top-down tank shooter Tank Brawl, the Phung brothers from developer Phung Games now dub Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury as the “best tank game ever”. Can it deliver on that promise?

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A Tactical Battlefield For Ambitious Players

Phew, it’s been a long time since we first heard of Eximius: Seize The Frontline back in 2016 as part of Steam Greenlight (Who still remembers it?). Now the ambitious mix of multiplayer shooter and real-time strategy has finally been launched on Steam. After a long development period, a dispute with the former publisher, and a long and successful early access phase, has Ammobox Studios from Malaysia achieved their first big hit?

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Labyrinth Of Legendary Loot Is A Maze To Die For

The most exciting thing about Labyrinth of Legendary Loot, a roguelike dungeon crawler from Dominaxis Games, is how agile the gameplay feels despite being turn-based. You’ll be zipping around, fire and poison spewing from your hands as arrows and energy waves and on the tile you were just at, before finally sticking your Brutal Axe into the skull of the wizard who’s been hiding behind a wall of spiders and bears since you entered the room. It feels fast (despite being, you know, turn-based), it feels intuitive, and like all the best roguelikes, RNG granting you an absolutely busted combination of loot feels amazing.

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