Gaming Reviews

Daniel Mullins has been messing with the fourth wall — and the players beyond it — since 2016, when he released Pony Island. A resounding success, Daniel followed it up with The Hex, a very meta take on video games.…

Metroidvania is one of the most popular genres out there, with titles such as Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dead Cells etc. being among the highest rated games in recent years, by critics and fans alike. But did…

Ever since I stepped out of my first Vita-Chamber in Bioshock, I’ve been a sucker for games that explain why your character keeps respawning. Dark Souls’ Dark Sign, the simulations in Assassins Creed, Prince of Persia’s “Wait… that’s not how…

The last few Milestone racing games have drawn some criticism from fans, who’ve been disappointed with how much content has been saved for DLCs. At first glance, Hot Wheels Unleashed didn’t seem much different in that regard — but before…

In Sound Mind is a first-person psychological horror game that takes place exclusively in your own mind.You play as Desmond Wales, a therapist that finds himself trapped in an unfamiliar building, with no recollection of how he got there in…

As a huge fan of JRPGs, particularly the Final Fantasy series, I got excited when I heard about the development team behind Artisan Studios’s upcoming game Astria Ascending. Kazushige Nojima (FFVII Remake, FFX and FFVII) helped shape the game’s narrative,…

Saying that Blizzard has been having a bit of a rough patch recently would be a slight understatement — they’ve kind of made a name for themselves in recent years for stumbling face-first into controversy after controversy. From sexual discrimination…

Warning: This review contains minor spoilers for the plot of Eastward. One of the wonderful things about the rise of the indie game developer is the increase in the number of titles that draw inspiration from gaming’s past. It’s probably…

Starting the Loop of a Hero Knowing how much content an Early Access game will end up having is hard to predict, but the developers over at Four Quarters had a 2015 hit in the release of Please, Don’t Touch…