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 […]
Review: Biped Stumbles Gracefully Onto Nintendo Switch
When our Games and Tech Editor originally reviewed Biped on PC, he said it was a hilarious blast to play with a friend, and that he would wholeheartedly recommend it. So […]
Review: Japanese Fighter Samurai Shodown is Finally on PC
Hell yes, Samurai Shodown is finally on PC. Released on every major platform so far, including Nintendo Switch and showing up as one of Stadia’s Pro launch titles, it’s about […]
Preview: Cut Ships Down into Salvage in Sci-Fi Hardspace:Shipbreaker
Science fiction is rarely mundane. Usually, it’s about what makes us human, some evil empire that must be brought down—or really, any number of stories that deal with deep philosophical […]
Review: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is back on Steam, and Now on Switch—Nostalgia Not Required
The RollerCoaster Tycoon name may have been tarnished by more recent releases—I’m looking at you RollerCoaster Tycoon 4, RollerCoaster Tycoon World and RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures—but Planet Coaster seems to be […]
Review: Summer in Mara is an Escape into Paradise
These have been some dark days. 2020 has been, for a lot of us, a pretty crappy year. I think that’s why games like Animal Crossing have been so popular. […]
Review: Desperados III Is a Wild West Stealth Tactical Dream
I never played the Desperados series before. I had certainly heard of it, but this almost twenty year old series was just outside the games I usually played–which is too […]
Review: House Flipper for Nintendo Switch: We’re Not Mad, Just Disappointed
One of my guilty pleasures is HGTV–more specifically, shows about flipping houses, or hunting for them. I don’t really care about the hosts necessarily, or even the circumstances surrounding the […]
Review: Evan’s Remains Is a Great Game Bogged Down by a Messy, Convoluted Story
Video games are great, because they aren’t bound to any one way to tell a story. Hell, some don’t even have stories, and are purely mechanical. Others are extremely narrative […]
Review: Beyond Blue is a Love Letter to the Ocean
I loved Subnautica and Soma. They’re two very different games, but they’re both terrifying glimpses into the deep unknown. But those games were built to scare, and weren’t so […]
Review: Super Holobunnies: Pause Café is Wasted Potential
I’ve been sitting here, trying to think of an intro to Super Holobunnies: Pause Café that doesn’t give away my feelings for the game. But it’s hard. See, Super Holobunnies […]