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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 245: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the classic adventure game that's like a Dan Brown novel but with more clowns. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be King of Fighters 98. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 244: EVO: The Search for Eden

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the SNES game about a mermaid who evolves into a goat-rhino who evolves into a man who kills a giant space amoeba and then gets lectured by the sun. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be King of Fighters 98.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 68: Plants vs. Zombies

 Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.    

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Sunless Skies

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sunless-skies/

 Sunless Skies is, in many ways, the game that Sunless Sea should have been. This time, Failbetter finally becomes comfortable with making a narrative-driven, text heavy RPG, leaving only vestigal remnants of grindy MMO-lik...

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Command and Conquer

The original Command and Conquer, one of the most popular real time strategy games of all time 

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Evoland

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/evoland/

An action-RPG journey through video game history.

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Gemstorm

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gemstorm/

An unusual falling block puzzler, hailing back to the PC shareware days.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 243: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the PS1 platformer that introduced the world to Namco's favorite long-eared cat. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Super Mario Odyssey. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 242: Dragonstomper

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this secret ancestor to the console RPG genre. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Super Mario Odyssey. 

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500 Word Indies: Ghostly Matter

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ghostly-matter/

An indie Metroidvania that pays to homage to various horror classics.

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Strike Commander

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/strike-commander/

Continuing the Wing Commander piece with this modern-day military jet fighter spinoff, which was a technical tour-de-force for the time, though didn't really grow much on its own.

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500 Word Indies - Ghost: 1.0 and Anatomy

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ghost-1-0/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/anatomy/

An indie Metroidvania and a cool-as-heck horror experience!

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 241: South Park: The Stick of Truth

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this surprisingly cromulent JRPG based on an American cartoon. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Plans Vs Zombies. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 240: Gain Ground

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega's epoch-repressing top-down dodge-em-up arcade classic.  

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 67: Mega Man 11

 Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.   

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Halloween (Atari 2600)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/halloween-atari-2600/

An Atari 2600 game based on the famous John Carpenter slasher flick.

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Silent Hill 4: The Room

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/silent-hill-4-the-room/

Finishing up the Silent Hill feature (for now, we have plans to cover the whole series down the line and compile them into another Konami-focused book) with the last game made by Team Silent. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 239: Torchlight II

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game about dungeons, ferrets, and freakishly huge forearms. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Mega Man 11. 

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Silent Hill 3

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/silent-hill-3/

Not quite at the storytelling genius of the second Silent Hill, but an excellent horror game nonetheless.

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Silent Hill 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/silent-hill-2/

Regarded as one of the best horror video games of all time, and with good reason.

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Silent Hill (Part 1)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/silent-hill/

Our main Halloween feature this year is a look at the four main Silent Hill games, beginning with the first entry for the PlayStation. We voted for this in our Best Games of All Time book over its more popular sequel, mostly because it has a certain level of grit and horror that the PS2 games lacked, in spite of having better stories.

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The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ninja-saviors-the-return-of-the-warriors/

A stellar remake of the SNES ninja brawler, itself a pseudo-sequel to the 1987 triple-screen Taito arcade game.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 238: Homeworld

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game about the Kushan exiles of the planet Kharak after their homeworld is destroyed by the Taiidan Empire in retaliation for developing hyperspace technology. Are you with us so far? 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 66: Sonic CD

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.  

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 237: Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a Dragon Ball card game. It's exactly as exciting as it sounds.  

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 236: Mister Mosquito

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where a single mosquito drives a Japanese family to madness. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Sonic CD. 

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Shadows of the Damned

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/shadows-of-the-damned/

Our Halloween coverage starts with Shadows of the Damned, Grasshopper's take on a Resident Evil 4-style horror action game.

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Gunpoint

A fairly successful indie action-stealth-puzzler from back in 2013.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gunpoint/


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Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators

 http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/mick-mack-as-the-global-gladiators/ 

Save the environment while also being conscious of McDonald's in this fairly decent side-scroller from the folks that would eventually make Aladdin (Genesis) and Earthwork Jim.

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More New Postcard Art: Yume Penguin Monogatari

More new artwork for our collector's card series - Yume Penguin Monogatari from Thor Thorvaldson!

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