
Runs are broken up into floors, and each floor is broken up into a series of randomly-generated rooms. Each run takes between 30 minutes to an hour (give or take a bit), and when it’s over, you do it all again. Isaac’s main method of attack is engaged by firing his tears at an enemy. It’s also a great representative of the twin-stick shooter genre. You could argue it’s the king of all roguelikes. Why do I play this game so much? To make a long answer short: I never know what’s going to happen. And I’ve logged another 75 on the Switch version since release. I’ve played a game about shooting your tears at monsters for 500 hours. The combined content footprint of the Isaac universe has this reviewer at somewhere close to 500 hours of play.
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The remastered ( Rebirth) version hit Steam and the consoles in late 2014, and in the intervening period since, two full expansions have released ( Afterbirth & Afterbirth+).

For a game that originally saw release as a crude project developed in Flash back in 2011, Isaac’s been on quite the journey. The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is the opening salvo of this strategy. There’s hay to be made from adopting the “let’s try everything” approach, and Nintendo seems motivated to work out deals with small, popular studios that are willing to port their games over to a shiny new platform. And mobile, free-to-play fare has wrapped its long arms tightly around the broader games market, limiting its growth significantly.
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The indie games industry – especially on PC – has positively exploded since the last time Nintendo was pushing a viable home gaming system. But they’re also waking up to the enormous opportunity inherent in the middle-ground between their new console’s form factor and power. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is already locking up Game of the Year considerations left and right, and Nintendo’s plan to flesh out the year with tent-pole first-party releases suggests they are aware of the pacing problem that doomed the Wii U. They are certainly off on the right foot, though. As the saying always goes, “time will tell” if Nintendo’s gambit of fusing their two hardware divisions together leads to higher sales numbers in the long term.
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And while it obviously won’t compete with the hardware in the PS4 and Xbox product lines, it’s still a very capable primary home console. Hey Poor Player has done extensive coverage on why Nintendo’s newest console is a cut above the rest when undocked (and untethered) from the living room. I’ve still got a long list of 2-D titles (retro or otherwise) that I’m hopeful will make their way to Sony’s nigh-abandoned portable.īut even if they never do, there’s less reason to grow fearful about the handheld landscape now that the Switch is out. For years, my Playstation Vita capably filled the role of delivering mobility to my gaming ecosystem – that is, of course, on the off chance that a developer actually remembered that the thing exists. Nothing on this Earth gives me greater joy than when a game I’ve sunk hours upon hours into on a desktop gets re-released on a handheld.
