Gaming Reviews

I have a love-hate relationship with older strategy games. I love the creativity that goes into making a game work with so few resources available to the developers. With a few frames of animation, a handful of static images, and…

There have always been games geared towards the fastidious, careful player. While they can exist in any genre, they tend to be management or tactical titles, stuff like FTL, Door Kickers, Frozen Synapse, Against the Storm; games in which thinking…

Note: This review contains minor spoilers for the opening chapters of Backfirewall_. Sometimes we take our phones for granted. The marvels of smartphone technology have become ingrained in our society, and for most of us, they’re dependable everyday companions that…

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider isn’t the only game that seeks to emulate 90s platformers. They are, in fact, a dime-a-dozen, even if we only count those that strictly adhere to the 90s design ethos (spike traps, speed, and turning everything up…

Kukoos: Lost Pets might be the worst game I’ve ever played. Being generous, I’ll just say that it is one of the worst games I’ve ever played, assuming that anything worse than this would’ve caused enough brain damage to make…

I’ve always enjoyed the Metrovania genre. It feels good exploring, finding upgrades and new powers, and defeating challenging bosses. There have been a few twists on the formula over the years (like Dead Cells’ roguelike-meets-Metroidvania), but a combination I’d never…

Taking a cue from car manufacturers and sports games, Let’s Sing 2023 has arrived in late 2022, bringing with it 30 new songs. Besides the new tracks, Let’s Sing 2023 will be exceedingly familiar to anyone who picked up the…

Games have come a long way as an art form. The early years of gaming were simple stuff, Pong and Asteroids; as they got more complex and more popular, they were generally still seen as silly entertainment. Games like Half…