Gaming Reviews

Since Valentine’s day is a made-up, materialistic holiday, it seems a particularly appropriate day to tell you about something else you should buy that involves lots of red, hearts, and is totally made up — Infernax, from Berzerk Studio. These…

You won’t find many people who don’t know what “Pokemon” is. Nintendo’s monster-raising franchise exploded in popularity in the late 90s with Pokemon Red / Blue / Green / Yellow, selling 47.5 million copies to date. At the time of…

This review contains minor spoilers for the first act of Chorus. I’ve been trying to recapture the magic I felt playing Tie-Fighter as a kid for almost 20 years now. I played with my childhood best friend Sam in his…

As someone who generally can’t be bothered to meticulously craft a beautiful home in a video game, I’m only the target audience for half of what Len’s Island has to offer. So when I found myself putting off my next…

Developer Serenity Forge and publisher Way Down Deep have taken a new approach to dating sims with their game Date Night Bowling, by letting you do more with your date than talk. In fact, you won’t really be talking to…

When I read the back-of-the-box blurb for Bloodshore, I didn’t know how to feel about the concept of an FMV game where the plot is essentially a remake of Battle Royale. The battle royale game genre officially became oversaturated in…

I would wager that most people reading this review have probably never heard of Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars. The game was quietly announced in early September, and was released just as quietly on October 28, as a…

If you are a board game fan, you probably know about Gloomhaven: a video-game-inspired RPG experience packed in a heavy box full of dungeon tiles, cards, stickers, and battle tracking mechanisms, featuring multiple campaigns and hundreds of automated battles. Aside…

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.…