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WRATH AEON OF RUIN

New games that wish they were old

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» PUBLISHER: 3D REALMS

» DEVELOPER: KILLPIXEL, 3D REALMS

» RELEASED: 2019 (EARLY ACCESS)

» PLATFORM: PC, MAC, PS4, XBOX ONE, SWITCH

» GENRE: FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER

Either you go the easy road of making your game look like a relic from a bygone age by cutting your colour palette and lowering your pixel count. Or, you take the more devout path and go haul out the old machines, find the install CDs for the old development tools, and suffer

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