Reviews

We, as gamers, are witnessing a renaissance of sorts when it comes to top-down isometric RPG, and there is a newfound hunger for point-and-click worlds, text-based encounters, and intricate RPG systems. We have seen games like Disco Elysium, Baldur’s Gate 3, Wasteland, and Pillars of Eternity spark a new wave of modern players. But, not […]

A genre of video game that I feel doesn’t get its flowers enough is the 2D puzzle platformer. Unless you throw an ominous and spooky vibe on top to get people hooked like in games such as Bramble The Mountain King, or Little Nightmares, often people don’t want to know. But there have been so

You can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your family; that’s what they say, right? I’m paraphrasing, but you get the point.  It’s a sentiment that pretty much everyone can get behind. Even though your sister might be a dweeb that made your life hell, or your mother is constantly breathing down your neck

We all have that place in the world that we call our happy place. The one place in the world that when we drift off into a daydream, we end up picturing. Whether that be standing on the sand as the waves roll in before us, or lying in a countryside meadow as a kaleidoscope

There are games out there that have an innate ability to suck you into an addictive and repetitive gameplay loop that could theoretically have you playing forever, and these are games that I am deeply fearful of, but also adore. Stardew Valley’s ‘One more day’ loop had me up into the wee hours. Slay the

I have a confession to make. I prepared for this review a little too well. Let me explain. Just a few weeks back, I decided to play Control, a game that embraces the science fiction offshoot known as ‘New Weird.’ A genre that is about as self-indulgent and ostentatious as they come, but when done

Christian Whitehead is perhaps the best example of a fangame creator to a full-on game developer pipeline, starting with a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame, then making ports of Sonic games officially, then creating a brand new Sonic game, and now onto a wholly original game with his own studio, this game being Penny’s Big Breakaway.

About eight months ago, I was watching a PlayStation showcase, and as it were, the rare PlayStation day one indie was shown, this one being a trippy, psychedelic Metroidvania named Ultros. This stood out to me among anything else offered in the presentation, and It was a day one wishlist for me. Aside from the

Have you ever played a game, got to the end, had the credits roll, and thought to yourself, ‘Well, there’s nowhere the writers could go from there’? I ask because that’s the exact feeling that I had when I called time on Turnip Boy Commit’s Tax Evasion, the first in this rather peculiar series. From

Sovereign Syndicate is an ambitious new CRPG and the first game by indie developers Crimson Herring Studios. Despite taking the heaviest inspiration from the modern classics Disco Elysium and other series like Shadowrun, it’s evident how many other aspects of the genre influence this passion project. The mystical and steampunk elements feel close to the