Reviews

When I undertake a review for a game, I play it with one thing in mind, if I had to describe the title in one sentence to one of my non-gaming friends, what would I say? For most games, this one-liner is simple to come up with. For something like Fortnite, I would sell it […]

Cults management sims are wacky. Whether we’re sacrificing our followers to an Eldritch being from the great beyond or poisoning the punch for giggles, cult sims offer an excellent power trip for the morally ambiguous entrepreneur. While most cult management sims have stuck to core elements of managing a secret society, like Cult of the

Scorn, one of the most unique-looking titles to release in 2022, was heavily inspired by the artwork of two artists you’re probably unintentionally familiar with. H.G. Geiger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Geiger was the visionary visual artist for the original Alien movie, and Zdzisław Beksiński reached internet fame with his confusing, grotesque, and darkly expressive paintings.

There’s an age-old technique in writing that states things are more satisfying when they come in threes. I can say without hesitation that after playing through FlyAway’s Triple Take, this is not entirely true. In fact, after sinking nearly eight hours into the punishingly difficult precision platformer, it wasn’t the fact that I had to

When I was younger, I found a lot of solace in embedding myself in the media I was consuming, whether that was a film, a book, or, more often than not, a video game. As a child with an incredibly overactive imagination, I would devote hours to losing myself in scenarios where I became the

“New York is a sucked orange”. That was philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s indictment, anyway: the city as a depraved cesspit bled dry of any value. It’s the antithesis of the old metaphor insinuating a limitless bounty of opportunity: the Big Apple. Or perhaps those two analogies are more interwoven than they first seem. In the

Text adventures are brutal. The combination of intuition, guesswork, and luck won’t hesitate to murder us if we neglect the feral monkey flinging dung at us three paragraphs ago. While most text adventures have transitioned into hybrid isometric games like Divinity 2 and Disco Elysium, where text is a prelude to combat or silly antics,

As a storytelling medium, video games have revolutionized the craft. Video games allow consumers to engross themselves in stories like never before, and Beacon Pines is no different. This indie game will grip you from the start and refuses to let go, taking full advantage of the tools it has at its disposal. Beacon Pines,

Let me be the first to tell you that in school, Chemistry was quite easily one of my worst subjects. When faced with the proposition of learning the periodic table and trying to understand the chemical reactions that take place between certain liquids and metals, I instead decided to create a game where a friend

As someone that has always admired Nintendo’s brand of whimsical and wholesome titles from afar, never quite mustering up the courage to branch out to another strand of consoles for more than a generation, I have found myself locked away from titles that have had the gaming Populus enamored. I didn’t get to witness the