Reviews

I still can’t fathom why I enjoy cleaning games. Between tearing apart spaceships for scrap or washing a dirty kid’s playhouse with an industrial-strength hose, Powerwash Simulator has spawned a veritable genre around cleaning and manual labor that I will gratefully devour time and time again. Even so, the simplicity of the cleaning loops can […]

Bontemps Games, a promising new Indie dev, has teamed up with Humble Games to bring us While the Iron’s Hot, a game all about blacksmithing that I took an interest in when I saw it back in the Wholesome Direct earlier this year. It looked to be a cozy game about rebuilding a town and

This is a new one for me in that I played this game on *gasp* PlayStation! As a dedicated Xbox girlie, it felt like a betrayal, but I wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity to play Calico. I love cute things, and I love cats, so a cute game about cats seemed perfect for me.

Cozy farming sims are my glasses of wine in the evening. They help me unwind and relax. Coral Island blipped on my radar when it was in Early Access on Steam. It looked like a 3D version of Stardew Valley with beautiful art and all the fun activities I enjoyed in SV–particularly farming and finding

It’s not often games slot perfectly into their predefined genres anymore — especially in the indie scene. Browse through Steam, and you’ll find a myriad of games splicing together mechanics and art styles from as many as three or four different genres, some genuinely hitting upon something new, others fading into obscurity amidst a sea

I adored Dredge’s cozy nautical horror. Between comfortably fishing for monsters, dodging undersea terrors, and confronting the Lovecraftian mystery behind it all, I was in love with the relaxing, spooky delight. Though the game had a few notable flaws in its late-game grinding and repetitive gameplay, I was thrilled for the announcement of its frozen

Ten years ago, back when roguelikes weren’t anywhere near the super popular genre they are today, a little project made by three people dropped called Risk of Rain, offering a fun roguelike experience you could play with friends or by yourself. Nowadays, Risk of Rain has grown to become a big franchise in the indie

Hotly anticipated viral games have a habit of letting you down. Whether they be huge AAA games marketed so aggressively that they have no chance of ever living up to the hype or indie games that catch the attention of the masses with cute visuals, a gameplay hook, or a gimmick that’s just too cool

Beautiful canyons, the bright cosmos above, oceans, and relatively tame atmospheric conditions. Regis III seems like a paradise for alien life and a curious astrobiologist. The Invincible teaches us not to trust first impressions. Polish sci-fi legend Stanisław Lem published The Invincible in 1964. Lem passed away in 2006, but his legacy of injecting heavy

Have you ever played a hectic restaurant management sim, then played an isometric action roguelike, and wondered what it would be like if you mashed the two together? Probably not, but studio Battlebrew Productions decided to try this concept out, tying it together with the metaphorical bow of an adorable art style with cute character