Evan Norris's Reviews
With a friendly approach to gaming, a warm sense of humor, and lots of content, the HP Collection is a good investment for younger and/or less accomplished gamers.
If Japanese indie developer Edelweiss wasn't already on your radar, consider this your wake-up call.
Moonlighter's combat, art, quality-of-life fixtures, and addictive gameplay loop make for an easy recommendation.
The Long Night Collection makes a suitably spooky debut.
If you're partial to local party games and/or abstract storytelling, Zarvot might be worth trying.
With plenty of clever color-coded challenges, frenzied four-player platforming, and lovely music and art, Joggernauts is a fair installment in the auto-running sub-genre.
A decent investment for The Surge faithful.
One of the better indie game on the market.
If you're looking for a Pilotwings substitute, keep looking.
Due to some sloppy physics-based controls and erratic gameplay, A Gummy's Life is probably better as a spectator sport.
An engaging, technically solid, surprisingly varied, and highly replayable action-platformer.
For all its atmospheric feats, Horus Station struggles to break orbit.
While Robbotto offers some quick fun for friends in local co-op and several different modes, its repetitive gameplay, underwhelming bosses, imperfect hit detection, and missing quality-of-life features keep it far removed from the game that inspired it.
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is a nice little game with lots of replayability.
An expert remake, imbued with lavish production design, superior voice-acting, flashy fighting, and hours of side content and virtual tourism.
Arguably the finest 2D action-adventure of 2018, a year that has seen an influx of well-crafted Metroidvanias.
Eschewing the Byzantine systems of many modern anime fighters, Blade Strangers invites fans weaned on early 90s arcade fighters back into the fold.
It has an artistic simplicity and mechanical purity reminiscent of Bill Rizer, Simon Belmont, and the Blue Bomber.
It's one thing for a game to embrace the mechanics of many different genres; it's another entirely to nail them all.
Fans of dungeon-crawling rogue-likes will most definitely gravitate to this tough top-down trip through the Dungeon of Doom, but others may wish to explore elsewhere.