Anita van Beugen


49 games reviewed
72.2 average score
70 median score
51.0% of games recommended
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Oct 23, 2025

PowerWash Simulator 2 polishes every aspect of its predecessor with better visuals, smarter tools, and more satisfying cleaning, delivering a stress-free, content-rich sequel that fans of the series will instantly enjoy.

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Oct 17, 2025

Keeper is a visually stunning work of art with mesmerizing design and style, but its short length, predictable story, and clunky camera keep it from being as emotionally powerful as it looks.

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Oct 15, 2025

BALL x PIT is an addictive roguelike by Kenny Sun that offers great value through its diverse characters, floors, and combinable special balls. Each floor features unique visuals, music, and enemies, encouraging varied tactics rather than repetitive play. While some evolutions are unbalanced and AOE damage dominates, the Arkanoid-style gameplay keeps runs fun and engaging. Progression feels rewarding, with stronger characters, new blueprints, and unlockable content.

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Sep 21, 2025

Arctic Awakening delivers a short, atmospheric mystery: as a walking simulator you trek through gorgeous, music-driven landscapes, engage in thoughtful exchanges with Alfie, scavenge food and tools (with even “useless” items aiding Kai), and make choices that shape the ending—held back only by slightly clunky first-person climbing and minor bugs/clipping.

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Sep 19, 2025

Blue Brain Games’ The House of Tesla is an engaging, chaptered puzzle adventure whose smart hint system and reset-friendly design outweigh weak cutscenes and early clarity issues, coming impressively close to The Room’s benchmark.

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Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is a Norse-myth roguelike bullet hell with varied classes, distinctive maps, and satisfying bosses, but thin long-term progression and weak tracking/unlocks sap its staying power. The fun is in short bursts rather than long grinds.

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Sep 2, 2025

Hirogami is a creative origami-inspired platformer with smooth controls, unique animal transformations, and optional challenges that make it both accessible and rewarding for completionists.

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Aug 29, 2025

SHUTEN ORDER is an ambitious fusion of five genres with a layered story, striking style, and strong gameplay, though its heavy dialogue and interruptions sometimes break the flow.

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Aug 19, 2025

Echoes of the End starts as a visually rich adventure with intriguing worldbuilding, but suffers from clunky, unresponsive combat and awkward pacing. The lack of dialogue and stiff animations undermine the action, though clever environmental puzzles offer welcome relief. Myrkur Games shows promise, but needs polish to turn this into the smooth, engaging experience it could be.

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Aug 5, 2025

Ritual of Raven is a life sim that stands out with its story-driven focus and well-developed characters, offering a familiar yet engaging gameplay loop enhanced by unique mechanics like card-based machine programming and moon phase–sensitive plant care, all within a detailed 2D pixel world—though minor issues like an out-of-place alien, pricey decorations, and static museum items slightly detract from an otherwise memorable narrative experience.

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Tales of the Shire lets you unwind in the peaceful life of a Hobbit, offering cozy activities like fishing, farming, and elaborate cooking with rewarding progression, though its shallow quests, lack of deeper interactions, missing festive elements, and technical shortcomings hold it back from being the idyllic Shire experience it could have been.

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Jul 29, 2025

Dune: Awakening offers a beautifully crafted world, solid survival mechanics, and flexible roleplaying, but uneven combat, repetitive quests, and a lonely, empty-feeling MMO experience mean it's best suited for those willing to overlook its flaws in exchange for immersive hours on Arrakis.

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Jul 8, 2025

ISLANDERS: New Shores is a colorful, relaxing yet challenging city-builder that serves as a worthy successor, offering clear visuals, strategic scoring, creative sandbox features, and amazing content for its price.

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Jun 25, 2025

Despite improvements in controls and graphics, Tour de France 2025 struggles to translate the excitement of cycling into engaging gameplay, with repetitive races, limited strategy, bugs, and removed features like split-screen co-op.

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Jun 12, 2025

Despite being the studio’s debut, Date Everything! nails what makes a visual novel dating sim work—memorable characters brought to life by stellar voice acting, clever design tied to each character’s object identity, layers of wordplay and humor, and engaging progression through limited daily interactions, quests, and text-based minigames, with the only downsides being a lack of new dialogue after reaching an ending and some minor bugs.

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May 27, 2025

Building on the foundation of the original, Monster Train 2 delivers a fantastic and challenging sequel with new clans, mechanics, and endless strategic combinations, though it’s slightly held back by clunky UI and unbalanced foes.

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May 8, 2025

Spirit of the North 2 offers a compelling story and clever dungeon puzzles, but its overly large world, lack of visual polish, and clunky platforming hold it back from reaching its full potential.

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Apr 21, 2025

Commando: Origins was meant to mark the grand return of the franchise, but with a lack of cohesive story, limited freedom, numerous bugs, and poor optimization overshadowing its nostalgic and varied missions, it’s best to wait for a few patches before diving in.

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Apr 15, 2025

Chains of Freedom features some strategic depth in its turn-based combat, but is held back by weak storytelling, dull exploration, poor pacing, and combat that’s often dragged down by frustrating design choices.

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Mar 16, 2025

Wanderstop is a unique, thought-provoking game that explores themes of burnout, change, and anxiety, with slow, deliberate gameplay that reinforces its message, though the protagonist’s plastic-like appearance and clunky keyboard controls detract slightly from the experience, making it best played with a controller in a calm state of mind.

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