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It’s been an interesting year if you’re a fan of post-Apocalyptic zombie survival games, as now we’ve seen three very different approaches to the genre so hopefully at least one of them will make a connection for folks...
Simplicity in games can certainly be a good thing, especially when you're coming off of a bigger and likely a bit more exhausting title that has consumed your interest...
This is one of those cases where I'm a bit conflicted on how to score a release since on the one hand the actual game is generally excellent (though certainly now feeling dated) but the port is obviously a bit unstable (a few crashes) and buggy in spots...
Talk about a game driven by its unusual story, characters, and art style...
While there are plenty of retro arcade shooters out there, many of them quite good even, I'll at least give Spacewing War credit for going in a direction that sort of sidesteps the competition by going full-on Gameboy with its look and feel...
Ah, challenging games… they’re a love them or hate them affair depending on how much you like having a compulsion to launch your controller across the room...
When it comes to collections of retro classics it’s always a bit hard to know how to score them...
This is one of those games that left me feeling a bit bewildered in terms of how I felt and what to say about it...
First and foremost I'll give EleMetals credit for going all in on its head banging style...
Survival games are always a bit of a mixed bag for me, sometimes getting too hyper-focused on the mundane act of staying alive, other times simply too brutally tough to easily enjoy...
Originally impressed by my time with it when I played the demo for it from Steam Next Fest, Souldiers is a Metroidvania I’ve had my eye on without a doubt...
While I love blasting off faces and racing to the finish line, there’s absolutely something to be said for slowing down and taking in the beauty of the world...
Bless the indie developers who are determined to take ideas that may sound a bit crazy in concept and run with them, revealing potential new avenues of play to enjoy!
As a fan of both classic adventure titles and games with a unique sense of time and place, Lamplight City is an easy layup for me in some regards...
There's no question in my mind that Atari has done something wonderful going into their back catalog and rejuvenating what's becoming quite a collection of their classics...
Undoubtedly chill and charming, the lack of challenge and nuance in the game's title fishing lets it down...
As long-time readers will well know, I'm a fan of novel ideas...
Ah, mobile game conversions, gotta love em... or not.
Maybe it’s the 80s kid and 90s twenty-something in me, but I’ll admit that when a game features a slice of life from my own heyday, made clear by your character working in their mom’s video rental store, it can quickly get my attention...
Too often in the indie space I've found that games that bill themselves as being horror in some way have generally failed to deliver, or at least deliver in a convincing manner...