Review: The Berlin Apartment
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Review: The Berlin Apartment

We’re closing out our reviews for 2025 with a game I’d been looking forward to since I first saw it towards the start of the year: because I mean, look at it. The Berlin Apartment is one of a couple of games recently released by German developers Blue Backpack, along with metroidvania Constance but long-term readers will know something like The Berlin Apartment is a lot more in my lane.

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Review: It Takes a War
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Review: It Takes a War

We could only manage to talk about the game's demo for forty seconds in the video we put out on our favourite demos of Steam Next Fest, but, not content with the headache it previously gave us in terms of finding non-spoiler-ific things to say, we're back and looking at the full release.

Let’s see how Thomas Mackinnon’s “pretty poor Counter Strike clone"" does this time…

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Review: The Roottrees are Dead
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Review: The Roottrees are Dead

In The Roottrees are Dead, the Roottrees are Dead. Namely, the President of the Roottree Corporation, his wife, and their three daughters. You’re tasked with identifying all the remaining blood relatives of the Roottree family, ostensibly to sort out the inheritance issues that might arise with the family’s untimely demise. 

 It’s often compared to Return of the Obra Dinn - which is likely IndieLoupe’s only five-star game... can it live up to that hype?


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