A lot has changed with farming sims since Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life originally released nearly 20 years ago. What was once a relatively niche genre has now seen many new releases each year, with…
June 22, 2023 | 09:30 EDT
Legacies are a tricky thing, running parallel with the vacuous nature with which humanity weighs itself. It’s easy for you to consider your life to remain less than a footnote in the wake of a few…
April 19, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
There's a fitting absurdity to the decision to wait a full decade before following up on the success of McPixel. The original rode a wave of success that can't be duplicated in 2022. It gained an…
November 14, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Sometimes, the best place for an overnight stay isn’t the area’s 5-star hotel with room service and a fancy ballroom. Rather, it’s the bed and breakfast that’s run by a teenage bear and his friends.…
July 28, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
In a move that can only be described as a long time coming, The Sims 4 Werewolves finally introduces werewolves to this generation of The Sims franchise. The game pack adds on to the occult…
June 29, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is, against all odds, an eternal franchise. Each generation will have its batch of mutated warriors taking on ninjas throughout New York City that reflects their unique…
June 15, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
"Today, she remembers. Today, she looks at the man who loves her, and feels familiarity and safety." This is one of the first few lines of We'll Always Have Paris, thrusting you right into the heart…
April 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
While spring might be just around the corner, that doesn’t mean winter is gone for good yet, so strap on those skis and snowboards and get going! Or if it’s above freezing where you live, you could…
March 9, 2022 | 08:00 EST
Dogs are fantastic. They rank right up there with cats in the general order of “things people love on the internet” and are also tied for one of the best things in the world, along with parfaits,…
January 20, 2022 | 09:00 EST
With COVID-19 and subsequent limitations on travel, various occupations, and so on, total game-streaming viewers and hours recorded reached new heights in 2020. One of the biggest draws wasn't the…
November 22, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Memories of the past can be good, bad, or somewhere in between. A day at the arcade, a lonesome Christmas night, and a minimum wage shift at a fast food restaurant. Where Cards Fall walks us through…
November 7, 2021 | 11:00 EST
In recent years, the shelter movement has been gaining more and more traction in the United States and other countries around the world, giving rise to slogans like “Adopt Don’t Shop” and “Who…
November 2, 2021 | 05:10 EDT
You can tell a lot about a piece of art by how it makes you connect with its characters. Where some go for grand gestures and big moments, some deal with the intricacies of the everyday. The way…
November 1, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
On today’s edition of escaping the woes of capitalism through video games, we move out to a town on the Canadian coastline to take up fishing. Said town goes by the titular name of Moonglow Bay, once…
November 1, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
I've been playing guitar for around a decade now but I've been playing rhythm games for much longer. This divide is always there in modern music games and how they commit is perhaps the most…
October 21, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
The meditative experience that is Cloud Gardens is, in a nutshell, an absolute joy. Despite it being the end of the world and all, there’s just something relaxing about engaging in a little bit of…
September 28, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
What would you do if a gigantic magical Kraken gave you an amulet and told you to keep living the same three-day time loop to save the world? Yeah, the protagonist isn’t sure either. And with that,…
September 24, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Considering how far technology has come, almost anybody can be a photographer with the device they have on hand. Despite this, photography has always been kind of a passing element in videogames…
September 13, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Townscaper is a game without a goal, more of a tool when you really break it down. Probably not the best way to open up discussing it for review, but it is important to recognize this right off the…
August 30, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Can you Be-Leaf It? Hoa is the game equivalent of a children’s bedtime story: a light narrative that serves as a vehicle for a comfortable atmosphere, memorable magical episodes, and an easy moral…
August 23, 2021 | 09:30 EDT
Sometimes a game will wear its influences on its sleeve. When Button City opened with a background that was taken directly from a 90s arcade carpet but with a little more pastel and a little less…
August 9, 2021 | 11:05 EDT
As the title would suggest, The Sims 4 Cottage Living is a new expansion pack that aims to bring some of the most recognizable aspects of countryside life to EA's popular life simulator The Sims 4.…
July 26, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Over the years, the downloadable content for EA’s latest entry in The Sims, their long running life simulation franchise, has developed somewhat of a poor reputation. Often associated with high…
June 7, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
The picturesque setting of Sumire opens up in the quiet hours of the night. The titular character, Sumire, wakes up from a dream of embracing her late grandmother and is filled with a sense of…
June 7, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
A spiritual successor to 2018’s wildly popular sandbox building simulator House Flipper, Castle Flipper attempts to bring the magic of that game’s relaxing renovation to a new medieval setting.…
June 2, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
The Longest Road On Earth is an odd experience. Often feeling more like a movie than a game, and an artsy one at that, it can be hard to fully formulate how to even review it. So much of the way you…
May 27, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Indie games have always been great at offering real charm. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is something built on the love of this charm but the dedication doesn’t always pay off. When humor is at the…
April 22, 2021 | 03:15 EDT
There are no shortage of bizarre little indie games out there for both the PC and Nintendo Switch, and a large portion of these games are hardly worth most player's time or money. When I first saw…
April 14, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Doctor Who has a rich history of spin-offs from its main TV series, with everything from audio dramas to books to web series. And, since 1983, a plethora of video game spin-offs. These have ranged…
March 28, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Have you ever come across a sequel that is so iterative, it almost feels redundant to talk about? That’s sort of the sensation I've had with Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, the hit sequel to the original puzzle…
March 23, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
If you’ve ever wanted to fulfill any fantasies about driving at top speed with reckless abandon as you let the road tell you where you need to go, well, this is NOT the game for that. In Can’t Drive…
March 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Being an awkward loner in high school is bad enough—being one during the apocalypse is even worse. In Explosm Entertainment’s Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse, you play as Coop “Go Away,…
March 11, 2021 | 10:00 EST
With its vibrant art, colorful graphics, and simple yet ingenious mechanics, Bonkies brings laugh-out-loud fun to couch co-ops with a touch of ridiculousness. After all, you play as a space-traveling…
January 28, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Crosswords and mysteries, puzzles and clues - as the classic song says, "these are a few of my favorite things." When I heard about Crossword City Chronicles, a game which promised to feature all of…
January 25, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Even the most beautiful of tropical paradises can be host to a dark secret. Are you brave and clever enough to seek it out? Will you answer the Call of the Sea? Plucky, analytical Norah certainly…
January 23, 2021 | 12:00 EST
There's a surprisingly broad niche of educational games targeted primarily at children that find a home in a nostalgic audience. Titles like Letter Quest and its addictive Scrabble like combat and…
January 12, 2021 | 10:00 EST
They say you only get one great love in life—the kind of love that accepts you for who you are, ugly flaws, excess baggage, unsightly blemishes and all. It’s the kind of love that doesn’t really…
December 16, 2020 | 03:05 EST
Like most things, being a detective is nowhere near as glamorous as it is in fiction. For the most part, detectives are likely to be solving routine cases that don't involve TV crime staples like…
August 31, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Some games are all about a grand, epic adventure. In this Littlewood review, I'll be exploring a game that approaches the classic fantasy narrative from a different perspective: what happens when you…
August 11, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
The environment for battle royales has grown stale and stagnant as of late. We're left with the typical fan favorites like Call of Duty: Warzone, Apex Legends, and of course, Fortnite. One could say…
August 10, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Licensed games are a tricky proposition. Most of them turn out to be so-so experiences. Many are rushed to meet some sort of deadline, while others are simple cash-grabs. That puts SpongeBob…
June 22, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Back in 2016, a visual novel/bartending hybrid called VA-11 Hall-A captured the hearts of many, combining a little slice of life with some drink mixing. It was an overall success, and it has a sequel…
January 28, 2020 | 06:00 EST
Comedy and improv aren't easy. Not everyone can stand in front of a crowd and retell a funny story or zing the audience with horrible one-liners. Improv comedy isn't always about that solo experience…
October 22, 2019 | 07:19 EDT
We could all use someone saying something nice to us. However, it's occasionally tough to actually find someone willing to sit down and listen. So we turn towards the anomaly of the internet, hoping…
September 15, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
The year was 2013. BBC’s Sherlock was waiting for a highly anticipated third season, CBS’s Elementary had premiered its second season, yet another iteration of Lupin III had just premiered the year…
August 23, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
AuroraBound Deluxe is the premier PC and Mac release from Irish game developer Final Game Studios. A port of the AuroraBound mobile game released earlier this year, Deluxe is a relaxing puzzle game…
November 11, 2017 | 11:00 EST