Robert Fenner's Reviews
Sunless Skies is one of the most interesting and well-written games ever made.
Creating a "good" H.P Lovecraft game in 2018 is probably an impossible task, but Call of Cthulhu is a valiant effort.
Death Mark is a genuinely scary experience that would be stronger if it didn't feel obliged to fall back on out-of-place cheesecake shots.
Metal Max Xeno lacks just about all of the characteristics that made the series interesting to begin with.
Heaven Will Be Mine is the no-bones-about-it queer Mobile Suit Gundam we've always wanted.
428: Shibuya Scramble's Western release is a miracle. Don't sleep on it.
Chasm's procedural dungeon, though a technical marvel, ends up woefully underutilised and results in a title that does little to set itself apart from its peers.
Zwei: The Arges Adventure is better observed as a Falcom museum piece rather than a tight, satisfying experience, but I'm thrilled we've access to it all the same.
Cultist Simulator is a posthumanist spiral that, like its endless card combinations, is greater than the sum of its parts.
The 25th Ward has a few cool ideas, yet they're almost always held back by outdated ignorance and rampant misogyny, turning what could have been a powerful avant-garde adventure game into a frustratingly juvenile monument to phallocentrism.
The must-skip hit of the winter.
In a sea of copycats, The House in Fata Morgana is a standout visual novel.
Misao may not be a filling portion, but sometimes all you need is a bite-sized parody.
Funny, sad, and with the sharpest teeth, Doki Doki Literature Club is one of the most pleasant surprises of 2017.
Abstraction Games have done a great job emulating Kemco's MacVenture ports, just know going in this is a package that knows its audience.
Chaos;Child is, for better or worse, a 5pb visual novel.
There's a bud of good ideas present in Blue Reflection. Unfortunately, it spectacularly fails to blossom.
Ys SEVEN has never felt more at home than it does on PC.
River City: Knights of Justice has the potential to be a quick and dirty fantasy brawl, but instead it ends up a tedious exercise in frustration.
2064: Read Only Memories isn't just a gorgeous homage to Japanese-style adventure games of the late 1980s and early 1990s, it's inclusive, positive, and heartwarming.