Review: Terrorarium‘s Murder Garden Trek is Treacherous, Bug-Filled
There aren’t enough games that you play as the villain. Incidentally, I had a chance to play two of them: one is a modern refresh of an older game—Destroy All […]
Review: Superhot: Mind Control Delete Delivers Tension and Thrilling Gameplay
How do you innovate on a game that described itself as one of the most innovative shooters in years? That’s the task developer Team Superhot faced when following up their […]
Review: Deadly Days Is a Strategic Rogue-Lite to Sink Your Teeth Into
There is a certain irony to playing Deadly Days, standing against wave after wave of zombie hordes, only to mindlessly consume hours of your own day with the proverbial, “One […]
Review: We should talk. is a Game That Could Improve Your Real Life Relationships
There are few games I feel like everyone should play. In general, I believe games are as personal a choice as ice cream flavors and fashion. What you enjoy and […]
Review: Playing with Visual Illusions in Superliminal
The tagline for puzzle game Superliminal is “Perception is reality.” A more accurate summation would be perspective is reality. The indie from Pillow Castle Games plays on how your perspective […]
Review: Hunt A Killer’s Immersive Murder Mystery Has Us Hooked
Are you a true crime buff? Do you think you have what it takes to solve a murder? If so, you’ve probably already heard of Hunt A Killer—the murder mystery […]
Review: Night Call Has a Cool Style, but Eventually Overstays its Welcome
What indie games often lack in production value, they can make up for in style. Night Call, is a perfect example of this. The dialogue is communicated only via text and […]
Review: After a Long Vermintide 2 Hiatus, the Grail Knight Brought Me Back
For years I’ve been playing video games with friends—it’s always been our way of hanging out across the thousands of miles that separate us. For a long time, Vermintide 2 […]
Review: Waking is a Nightmare
Video games have been trying to tackle mental health more and more lately. Games like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice not only did the research to get it right, but was able […]
Review: The Last of Us Part II is a Technical Marvel with a Draining Story
As one of the premier studios in video games, any time Naughty Dog releases a game it’s an occasion. The Uncharted series is incredibly popular, but their 2013 game The […]
Review: Neversong‘s Moody Nightmare World Doesn’t Strike the Right Chords
Some games take their worth from what they do new for a genre. Games like Braid that pushed the mechanics and story limits of a platformer, or your Cuphead that offer […]
Review: Hunt with Man’s Best Friend in Hunting Simulator 2, Though it’s Dogged with Issues
When I was younger, I played a good amount of hunting games, but I never really got into them. There’s something about their pacing that I couldn’t appreciate. Now that […]