Gaming Reviews

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.…

Metroidvania is one of the most popular genres out there, with titles such as Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dead Cells etc. being among the highest rated games in recent years, by critics and fans alike. But did…

Ever since I stepped out of my first Vita-Chamber in Bioshock, I’ve been a sucker for games that explain why your character keeps respawning. Dark Souls’ Dark Sign, the simulations in Assassins Creed, Prince of Persia’s “Wait… that’s not how…

The last few Milestone racing games have drawn some criticism from fans, who’ve been disappointed with how much content has been saved for DLCs. At first glance, Hot Wheels Unleashed didn’t seem much different in that regard — but before…