I’m going to admit something to you: I was pretty hyped about developer Iron Galaxy’s apocalyptic monster slayer Extinction. It looked to me like an Attack on Titan anime meets Dungeon Defenders […]
Review: Extinction Does Not Live up to its Premise
Review: Surviving Mars is a Near-Future Vision of Space Age Colonization
Developer Haemimont is best known for the last few Tropico games—a series of city building and construction management games where you would take the role of a dictator overseeing a small island […]
Review: Q.U.B.E. 2 Punctuates Physics Based Puzzles with Sci-Fi Thrills
Q.U.B.E. 2 is Toxic Games follow up to 2011’s Q.U.B.E., a physics-based puzzle game by that’s long drawn comparisons to a less punctuated but more popular title, Valve’s Orange Box hit, Portal. In Q.U.B.E. 2, , there’s […]
Review: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is Bloody, Spectacular, and Rewarding
Let’s face it: the Warhammer IP is hit and miss. There are good Warhammer games, and incredibly bad ones. Luckily, developer Fatshark has managed another good entry into the vast Warhammer canon. […]
Review: Pit People is a Funny and Absurd Adventure
Developer The Behemoth reached legendary status back during Xbox Live Arcade’s heyday with the release of Castle Crashers back in 2008. They have slowly but steadily been releasing games ever since, with […]
Review: Rad Rodgers is a Retro-Styled Platformer Stuck in its Teens
Rad Rodgers started its life as a Kickstarter game, hoping to fulfill a nostalgic itch while simultaneously eschewing kid friendliness with promises of gore, foul language, and adult themes. Rad Rodger manages […]
Review: Dandara–Nonlinear Fantasy Adventure with a Unique Perspective
Developed by Long Hat House, a two-man studio running shop in Brazil, Dandara seems to ask the question, “What if Metroid was fantasy instead of science fiction?” Scoring finalist in three different competitions […]
Review: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Manages Fun Gameplay, Historical Accuracy
Warhorse Studios has finally released its long-awaited epic Kingdom Come Deliverance. An open-world role-playing game set in historical Bohemia and based on a true story, Kingdom Come does something that few sword […]
Review: Indie Game Past Cure Has AAA Look, Not Much Else
Minor plot spoilers ahead: One thought kept coming back as I played though the first few hours of Past Cure, the third-person action/stealth debut from German indie developer, Phantom 8 Studios: “These […]
Game Review: Fe is a Pretty, Perplexing Puzzler
The first thing that drew me to Fe was its art style. I saw a trailer for it in January’s Nintendo Direct Mini, and immediately knew I wanted to get in that world. […]
Game Review: Dynasty Warriors 9 is Inept, Insipid and Tedious
Koei Tecmo’s flagship franchise for years now has been the Omega Force developed Dynasty Warriors. It is a series of games known for singularly powerful warriors battling large hordes of enemies. The […]
Game Review: Monster Hunter World: Hunter, Gatherer
Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has been a staple of video games since the first title released 14 years ago. There was some success with handheld spin-offs, and when main series Monster Hunter […]