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Starting out as a young woman woken up with the aid of an AI-driven talking traffic light, disoriented, and apparently without any recollection of who or where you are, Unreal Life certainly comes out of the gate a bit weird...
Bridge construction games have become a subgenre of the physics puzzle game persuasion that has had an interesting degree of staying power...
There’s always something a bit entertaining about games that mix cuteness with a little bit of mean brutality and that core silliness seems to be part of the driving force behind Cake Bash...
I can't ever get enough roguelike games in my life it seems, and I'm always intrigued to see how it can be used as a catalyst for changing up expectations for new genres and break ground...
Going back quite some time the FPS puzzle adventure has seen a variety of takes over the years...
Seeing this title immediately brought back fond memories of the classic Battle Chess, which was generally pretty enjoyable even if I was never very good at playing the game...
The Sniper Elite series has always been an interesting red-headed step-child off to the side of the FPS genre...
While I’ve never been super serious about playing pool it is a sport I’ve enjoyed in quite a number of pool halls and friends’ homes over time...
As time has gone on the first-person shooter genre has gone through quite a lot of changes and evolution, generally moving from simply being all about blowing through hordes of enemies and trying to add in either story elements or genre mixes to help it become a bit more elevated...
With the global pandemic just now reaching a full year since it was first discovered Five Dates is a bit of a quick turnaround marvel, looking to capitalize on an opportunity to make a rom-com-styled game in the days of Covid...
Memorialized in books, movies, and television shows, the space race is one of the most significant triumphs of both science and human will ever...
As you may know by now if you’ve read quite a few reviews I generally find narrative games to be less-than-stellar more often than not...
It's always nice to see new takes on trending genres, and Unhatched has jumped into the fray with its own flavor variation on a deck-building strategy game...
Multiplayer brawlers, no doubt inspired in part by the tremendous success of Smash Bros, are pretty well a dime a dozen out there including on the Switch, driven mostly by indie offerings both ambitious and humble...
Indie horror titles have a tendency vary wildly in their quality, often being built with a focus on jump scares over playability or a cohesive game experience...
Oh man, I do try to be open minded about games for all audiences and at all budgets even but when you hit a game like this it's hard not to hear the record scratch sound in your head...
Puzzle action games can and have come in many forms, though I don't think I've ever seen any go to the degree of simplicity seen in Linelight...
This is one of those titles where I'm a bit torn because this roguelike beat-em-up has many elements that I like but it's impossible not to reflect on some of its weaknesses, especially given the tremendous strength of roguelike representation on the Switch at this point...
The rise and fall of music titles and their mainstream popularity has always been a bit interesting to watch...
Once again the My Universe series delivers a more casual and kid-friendly take on games, this time with a restaurant experience that falls somewhere between Diner Dash and Cooking Mama, though in general without the associated pressure...