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It's sometimes tricky to write reviews when it comes to scoring games that show a ton of promise and are engaging but then have a critical flaw or two you can't ignore...
OK, so perhaps at this point the concept of a deck-building strategy roguelike has been played out a bit… but what if you added an additional layer of RNG madness with dice just to spice things up?
There’s nothing I like more than a surprise game that shows up, slaps you around a bit, and leaves you thirsting for more...
Retro remix collections tend to be a mixed bag, but for fans of arcade classics even though not every title in Forever is equally compelling it still delivers the goods...
With a unique hand-drawn art style and some unusually inventive point-and-click puzzles When the Past was Around definitely stands out from the crowd...
Ever since the likes of Diner Dash (and some others) were a big hit in the casual space the time management action game genre has slowly evolved but kept the basics intact, mostly just throwing additional complexity into the mix...
I can respect games that aren't made for the adrenaline junkie set, whose goal is to proceed at a slower pace and enjoy taking everything in...
If you've seen my reviews of visual novels before you'll know that in a general sense I'm rarely a fan...
In the budget casual game arena there are some titles that embrace less complex controls, some only featuring one button even, and surprisingly deliver compelling gameplay...
There have been a variety of dogfighting sims on the Switch, with time frames ranging from the earliest instances of aerial combat on through the future in space...
There’s something pretty delightful when you encounter games that you’ve never previously heard of that, once you begin playing them, grab you and demand your attention until they’re completed...
Games that do things differently are always a treat on the system, and in terms of its approach there’s no doubt that Alt-Frequencies delivers in that regard...
There are, no doubt, loads of retro games of all flavors and degrees of quality on the Switch, and among them Tanuki Justice stands out as probably one of the most authentic not based on a property I've seen...
I've continued to be pleasantly surprised or even a bit amazed at the types of titles that developers have gotten running on Switch, especially when they're pretty ambitious visually...
It's absolutely vital that games, and probably most of all indie games, innovate and come up with new ways to approach genre play that's been around for a while...
At long last the conversion of DOOM: Eternal has made its way to Switch to satisfy your itchy trigger finger and much like the last DOOM... it's pretty hard to believe this game is running (well) on a console you can take anywhere...
When you create a franchise as successful as the Pokemon series it’s inevitable that there will be a long line of imitators...
While I understand the Drawn to Life games have their fans, and can see some of the appeal in being able to personalize the look of your hero, there's also no denying that they're decidedly casual...
Walking into the Nine Witches experience I hadn’t seen enough about the game to know what I was in for...
I'll openly admit that perhaps a degree of my disappointment with John Wick Hex is that it took a gameplay road I wouldn't have anticipated...