Point and click adventure games seem to be having somewhat of a renaissance lately. If you’re someone who grew up on them and enjoyed the subtle humor and head scratching puzzles of […]
Review: Tohu’s Weird Whimsical World Is a Mysterious Delight
2020 In Review: Our Favorite Video Games of 2020
So long 2020—you were a terrible year for a lot of reasons, but a surprisingly good year for video games. Sure, there was the big letdown that was Cyberpunk 2077. But this […]
Review: Dirt 5–Way Beyond Rally
The Dirt series is probably my favorite racing franchise. Not only are there high quality versions coming out of Codemaster every other year or so, you can get them in two flavors: […]
Review: The Survivalists Throws Monkeys into the Survival Mix
Co-op and open world survival games are some of the best. Some of my best experiences have been playing with friends on some digital island, surviving by gathering resources and grinding out […]
Review: Little Big Workshop Is a Rare, Delightful Console Management Game
I love management games. There’s something incredibly satisfying with taking a small operation, and expanding it until it gets larger. Cut out the fat, increase efficiency– you know, that sort of thing. […]
Review: Hotshot Racing Is a Fun Throwback to Arcade Racing
Most of my life I remember going to the local taco place, and in their dining room in a back corner, there was a Virtua Racer cabinet—or a game that looks […]
Review: Shing! Tries to Bring a Modern Touch to the Beat ‘Em Up Genre
Side-scrolling co-op beat ‘em up games have been around for decades, and it’s hard to inject something new into the genre. That’s exactly what Shing! attempted though, with a control scheme that […]
Review: Ghost of Tsushima Delivers on a Samurai Game in a Gorgeous Setting
With the PlayStation 5 scheduled to arrive this holiday season, Ghost of Tsushima will go down as the last major exclusive for the PlayStation 4. That’s fitting because Ghost of Tsushima is […]
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 Last of […]
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. People just […]
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 bad, because […]
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 much about […]
