Gaming Reviews

When Thymesia’s initial trailer dropped many immediately pegged it as a Bloodborne clone; their interest in the game was therefore based on whether or not more Bloodborne was something they wanted. I too assumed it was yet another AA soulsborne…

Many video games have three common character tropes: the princess, the hero, and the villain. These games also have the same basic outline for their story — the villain kidnaps the princess, and the hero has to go on a…

I’m a huge wuss when it comes to scary stuff. Horror movies, spooky video games, a dark hallway in an unfamiliar house – all terrifying. So when I tell you Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is scary, you may need to…

When creating Trek to Yomi, Leonard Menchiari and Flying Wild Hog Rzeszów wanted to create a game that lets players feel like they’re in a Japanese movie from the 50s and 60s. To accomplish this, they made sure everything felt…

When I saw the initial Loot River announcement trailer, it felt like someone had looked at my most-played genres on Steam and created a game by mixing them together. Soulsborne style combat? Check. Dark fantasy world? Check. Pixel-graphics, procedurally generated…

With Road 96, Digixart set out to create a procedural road trip game, in which you can have an unpredictable journey, while also making choices along the way that will influence the larger story. The result is a game that,…

I’ve always wanted to like racing games. I’m a pretty competitive person, and “race ya!” is one of the earliest — and purest — forms of competition anyone ever engages in. Yet over the years, most of the racing games…

It seems like every new game that comes out requires more hyphenated descriptors than the last one. Today’s impressively long list of adjectives comes courtesy of Young Souls, a co-op side-scrolling beat-em-up dungeon-crawler RPG developed by 1P2P and published by…