Video Games

  • Some Thoughts on Crow Country

    Crow Country is the most recent game by British developer/publisher SFB games. It’s available for PlayStation 5, XBox Series X|S and Steam, and I recently completed it on the Steam Deck where it ran just fine.

    Crow Country is a survival horror game in the vein of original PlayStation classics like Silent Hill and Resident Evil, not just in content but in presentation – the game leans heavily on PSx style graphics, controls and interface to create the mood it’s going for. A mood it generally nails throughout the roughly six hour run time, give or take. All the normal survival horror staples are here – puzzles to get objects that shouldn’t used as keys and them using them as a key, characters with odd backstories and even odder motivations, and so forth. (more…)