Christian Donlan


246 games reviewed
79.3 average score
80 median score
84.1% of games recommended
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Recommended - Evil West
Nov 21, 2022

A gleeful splat-'em-up featuring a lovely bag of tricks.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Somerville
Nov 15, 2022

An escape from alien invasion, with beautiful art direction.

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Recommended - Pentiment
Nov 14, 2022

A brilliant narrative adventure that is filled with intelligence and heart.

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Recommended - Vampire Survivors
Oct 24, 2022

The PC phenomenon hits 1.0 in generous form

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No Recommendation / Blank - Gotham Knights
Oct 20, 2022

This is a slight muddle of a game, but it has its pleasures.

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Oct 17, 2022

Knockabout XCOM fun in a galaxy-hopping adventure that makes Mario's brother a true star.

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Recommended - Paradise Marsh
Oct 13, 2022

Explore an endless wetlands in this glorious study in nature and solitude

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Sep 28, 2022

Hob's Barrow is a game that refuses to leave your brain until the whole thing is untangled.

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Recommended - HYPER DEMON
Sep 22, 2022

Compact and terrifying, this score-attack shooter feels like it's come from the future.

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Recommended - Shovel Knight Dig
Sep 22, 2022

Compact and terrifying, this score-attack shooter feels like it's come from the future.

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Sep 19, 2022

A deft and heartfelt journey through nostalgia.

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Sep 15, 2022

There's a wonderful depth of tactics in this cyberpunk charmer.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Kirby's Dream Buffet
Aug 24, 2022

Knockabout sugary fun for four players.

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Recommended - Arcade Paradise
Aug 12, 2022

What a thing. Arcade Paradise made me think of Outrun and GTA and Mr Driller, and also my own working life in my teens as a dishwasher and a double-glazing salesperson, sure. But it also made me think of those mazes tiled on the walls of Warren Street tube. Warren Street! Get it? Little puzzles made to be solved between trains, but tricky enough to encourage you to miss your train in the first place. Then you solve the maze and you're off into a wider maze of the underground network. And maybe, who knows, there's a maze beyond that too.

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Recommended - Cult of the Lamb
Aug 10, 2022

A desire to please shines throughout this charmer with a hundred moving parts.

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Recommended - Hard West 2
Aug 4, 2022

Clever tweaks to a brilliant formula make this a tactics game just built for experimentation.

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Recommended - Hindsight
Aug 3, 2022

A daughter packs away her dead mother's things - and explores their life together and apart.

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Recommended - Mothmen 1966
Jul 13, 2022

An eerie journey back to the days when all games were a bit eerie anyway.

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Recommended - Deathrun TV
Jun 16, 2022

I could go on. Character outfits. Loadouts. A neat arcade mode. A room where you can wander among the unlocks. Brilliant audio which has clearly been recorded by the development team. Deathrun TV is a beautiful twin-stick made of lovely little pieces. And all the pieces matter. Eugene Jarvis would be proud, I think.

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Recommended - Card Shark
Jun 9, 2022

It reminds me of a story about Ricky Jay, the great and much-missed close-up magician and historian of magic. After a particularly dazzling piece of card control performed for a New Yorker writer, he was asked if there was anyone left in the world who would still play cards with him.

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