Gaming Reviews

If imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery, then The Game Kitchen and FromSoftware should feel quite flattered by The Last Faith. The debut PC and console title from Kumi Souls is an unabashed mashup of Bloodborne and Blasphemous,…

There are no two ways around it: The Talos Principle 2 is a masterpiece, intelligently designed to be not only one of the finest puzzle games of all time, but also to craft some of the finest philosophical discussions in…

Even if you are a fan of the relatively niche literary genre that is hard science fiction, you can be forgiven for not having read StanisÅ‚aw Lem’s The Invincible. The Polish novel doesn’t tend to show up on internet lists…

RPGs are my favorite type of games, and I’m always looking for more that I can try out in between Final Fantasy playthroughs. When I first saw the trailer for Long Gone Days, I was very interested in the bleak…

The Fabulous Fear Machine is an outbreak-sim strategy game, a love letter to pulp-horror comics, and Fictiorama’s best game yet. In it, you play through several scenarios as one of several ambitious, perhaps less-than-moral agents and assume control of the…

Space travel: still stupider than you think. Back in May, we gave you a sneak preview of a little game called Astronaut: The Best, an “occult management roguelite adventure” from Universal Happymaker. At the time, I gushed about the demo’s…

Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons is the newest entry in the Double Dragon franchise. And, quite possibly, it’s best. By combining class arcade sensibilities, modern presentation, and a good bit of clever design to bridge the two, Double…