Gaming Reviews

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…

Jagged Alliance 3 is… fine. If that’s all you need to know to make a decision either way, there you go. Jagged Alliance 3 is a lot like Jagged Alliance 2 (and a bit like classic XCOM, even if the…

We live in a universe of relativity and opposites: there is no shadow without light, no vacuum without matter, no long video games without — short ones? Filling a niche I’m not entirely convinced needed filling, Swiss-based SunnySide Games’ 2D…

The first Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a cult-gem and a personal favorite of mine. While imperfect, it has a glut of indie charm, some very funny moments, and a pretty clever analysis of surveillance and security. It had…