Review: Overpass is a Hard Pass
One of the genres of video games I like best are racing games. I have loved them ever since the first ones I got my hands on for NES and […]
Review: Deep Sky Derelicts Definitive Edition Brings Gritty Sci-Fi Deck Building to Consoles
I’ve had a lot of roguelikes coming my way lately. Well, it’s been more like non-stop roguelikes and rogue-lites for the past few years—and that’s a good thing. Deep Sky […]
Review: Roundguard Is a Delightful Mix of Peggle and Slay the Spire
Let me get this out of the way: Roundguard is absolutely delightful. It combines two of my favorite games: the pachinko-like Peggle, and the deckbuilding roguelike Slay the Spire. It’s […]
Review: Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition Brings New Levels and Quality of Life Changes to the Gravity Defying Metroidvania
I first heard of Dandara when a writer pitched the review to me in 2018.When he submitted it, all I knew going in was that it was a metroidvania. After […]
Review: Hidden Through Time is Silly and Charming
There’s a genre of video games that it seems like most people usually ignore: the hidden object game. I mean, they’re everywhere. I’ve seen the one based on the Castle […]
Review: Once a Fan Recreation, Black Mesa Manages to Transcend its Source
I remember when Half-Life came out. I convinced my mom to buy it for me “for Christmas” around its release in November. I couldn’t possibly wait a whole month to […]
Game Over–C2E2 Day 3 Game Retrospective
It’s all over folks, C2E2 2020 is done and gone, leaving us only with fond memories. It feels like C2E2 gets bigger every year–their game presence certainly has. There was […]
Review: Corruption 2029 is a Great Stealth Meets Turn-Based Hybrid
The developer Bearded Ladies made a name for themselves with their hit Mutant Year Zero. When they announced, only a short few weeks ago, that Corruption 2029 would be arriving […]
Review: Mosaic is Striking, Surreal, Boring
We’re all stuck on this planet together, hurtling through space, grinding away daily at thankless jobs until our inevitable demise. This sort of existential dread has become old hat for […]
Review: Wargroove Gets a Whole new Campaign in Free Double Trouble DLC
I didn’t get a chance to play Wargroove when it originally released. I always thought that was too bad, since it reminded me of a westernized Fire Emblem and […]
Review: Local Multiplayer Party Game Thief Town is a Good Fit for Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a great system for party games. You can bring up the eShop without seeing bunches of them. So what then makes a Nintendo Switch party game […]
Review: Zombie Army 4: Dead War is Over the Top Zombie Shooting Fun–Bring Friends.
When I was younger, and I was first cutting my teeth on shooters, the two most acceptable enemy types were Nazis and zombies. It wasn’t controversial back then to […]