It's not uncommon to see games about revenge-driven protagonists, murderous psychic cults, and stories where you leave a trail of bodies in your wake. What makes Children of the Sun's approach to…
April 9, 2024 | 11:00 EDT
If you could pigeonhole any publisher, it would be Whitethorn Games. A catalog composed of cottage-core and kitschy chronicles of ordinary people doing (extra)ordinary things, whether it’s the…
April 8, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
Every now and then, you get a puzzle game that perfectly uses the gaming medium to create a whole new kind of puzzle that’s as engaging as it is clever. I didn’t plan to write a Cocoon review, but…
October 10, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
The early 2010s was a weird time for Capcom, releasing what is arguably some of the company's worst-performing titles. In 2010, we saw the release of Lost Planet 2 and Dark Void, two games that…
June 27, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
There’s a vast sea of city-building games out there on Steam. There are several cozy ones that you can just turn your brain off and play, and there are strategic ones that can take up hours in one…
March 27, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Few games are able to evoke powerful senses of wonder and pure joy, and those that do are often considered some of the best of all time. The last game I remember being just pure delight for its…
March 12, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Escape Academy's base game was one of the unexpected gems I originally found in the Steam Next Fest earlier this year, and I went on to thoroughly love the full game when it was released in July.…
November 11, 2022 | 01:00 EST
I'm always interested in a bit of wholesome zen comforting puzzles. Additionally, something about putting things in order just feels right. So I was intrigued when I first heard of A Little to the…
November 7, 2022 | 10:00 EST
Like any cat owner, Stray should perk up your ears, just as it did mine. My own cat -- who is appropriately named Kitten -- is perfect in every way, minus the fact that she always has a scowl like…
July 18, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
Escape Room games have been a hot trend for a while now, with entire franchises like Rusty Lake and mc2games being built upon the principle that you need to solve the puzzles and get out of the room/…
July 13, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
There is a lot of debate surrounding the distinctions between consciousness and AI which many scientists and creatives try to address. There are plenty of stories about machines developing a way of…
June 29, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Card Shark has all of the elements for a delightful quasi-historical romp through eighteenth-century France. Going from table to table, fleecing the aristocracy with sly tricks and aces up the sleeve…
June 1, 2022 | 04:29 EDT
Narrative-focused games can be a bit of an acquired taste. After all, video games are primarily an interactive medium, so there’s no shame in not being into games that treat interactivity as a…
May 18, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Whether it's a roguelike or a roguelite, their games are similar: Get as far as you can. The difference between the two is that the latter is more lenient in terms of giving you shortcuts and more…
May 4, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
I think most of us would revel in the idea of living in the multiverse and recent studies have shown that that may be the case. Of course, that doesn't mean we're anywhere close to visiting parallel…
March 3, 2022 | 10:00 EST
For those who don’t know, horticulture, as defined by Webster’s dictionary, is “the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.” In Strange Horticulture, you run a…
February 2, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Regardless of the creative medium, escaping into fiction is a draw for everyone at one time or another. It could just be an unprovoked yearning for unfettered adventure or a defense mechanism against…
January 31, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Is there anything Shovel Knight can't do? He's starting to become the indie genre's Mario, so recognizable and appearing in so many different games: platform fighters, Metroidvanias, runners, and…
December 12, 2021 | 09:00 EST
I'll admit: I wasn't kind to Sometimes You's Energy Cycle. Even by the diminished standards this developer/publisher set for itself, its puzzle ambitions went nowhere. But the great thing about…
November 8, 2021 | 11:00 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
Developer/Publisher combo Sometimes You sprang up in the mid-2010s to carve a niche in the "discount indie" space. As most mainline indies are climbing up towards the $15-$25 range, it's nice to have…
November 2, 2021 | 11:00 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
Vampire fangs, blood-sucking mosquitoes, and a basement full of horrors - or is it wonders? In JARS, you follow the tale of a quiet little boy named Victor as he explores the seemingly endless…
October 20, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Note: This review does contain minor gameplay spoilers for Inscryption. Read at your own discretion. Inscryption is an infuriating game to explain in detail. It is not because of convoluted or…
October 18, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Have you ever wanted to be a grape that fights monsters, buys hats, and sleeps on a nice and cozy leaf? Thanks to Garden Story, I now know what the ideal life is. Set in a fruity and colorful top-…
September 13, 2021 | 10:30 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
Books are a popular source material for many video games. From Sherlock Holmes to The Witcher, there’s a plethora of genres and stories to choose from. However, one series that I didn’t expect to get…
July 21, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
I will totally admit that I don't really understand how sewing something works. To me, it's a magic process that just sort of ends up with a completed product, and I never know how, even when, when I…
June 16, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
The more normal and complacent everything seems, the more extreme it feels when madness descends upon it. In the case of Fluxscopic Ltd., they have decided to bring it crashing down onto a small,…
May 31, 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
Light redirection puzzles are a pretty common theme in puzzle games, but I don't think I've ever played one where it was literally the entire game. Honestly, going into Solas 128, I was expecting to…
February 9, 2021 | 11:00 EST
With the recent success of Myst’s reinterpretation for VR platforms, players are understandably hungry for more interactive worlds stuffed with puzzles to solve and mysteries to unravel. French…
January 29, 2021 | 10:00 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
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
Its always impressive to me when a studio's very first game manages to be get almost everything right. So many video games struggle to pull off all the major aspects of video game development, with…
November 4, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Paper Beast was already a critically acclaimed VR title from Pixel Reef studios, so the surprise of their brand new Folded Edition - a non VR version of the game - is a welcome one. Especially…
October 29, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Games try to tackle the themes of life and death all the time. While there's always going to be varying degrees of success, it's not often that a game has been able to address the celebration of life…
October 24, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Adventure is a common topic for games, so are magic and wizards for that matter. Mask of Mists doesn't perhaps win many points in originality for being a first-person adventure game based on the…
September 10, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
We judge media based on perspective. Movies, books, tv shows, and games that we revere are seen that way because they successfully put us in the perspective of another. Games, however, offer the…
July 16, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
A Fold Apart releases at a particularly difficult time. With a global pandemic underway, most of us are isolating in our homes. While many are fortunate to have family close by, some are without that…
April 17, 2020 | 06:00 EDT
There are few roguelikes as seminal as The Binding of Isaac. An expansive dungeon crawler filled with countless intricacies and endless possibilities, it's truly a game that feels like a slot machine…
November 15, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Hunie Pop is a Dating Sim and Puzzle game in one and comes after a successfully funded kickstarter. Kyu with the very first girl you meet, Lola.Merging two genres together, Hunie Pop begins with…
October 24, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
At some point, I decided I need to just give myself up to the dance. Hit the dance floor and go absolutely wild. Unfortunately, I don't have any dancing skills, but this is a minor issue in the grand…
October 22, 2019 | 06:54 EDT
A sojourn is defined as a temporary stay. You can say a group "sojourned in New York", or "the sojourn was short but eventful." In the case of the video game, The Sojourn, the term is used to define…
September 21, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
Catherine is a game I remember being excited for because it had Katsura Hashino at the helm as director and producer. For the uninitiated, he led the development of the Persona series since 3. In the…
August 30, 2019 | 10:30 EDT
Let’s face it, a lot of post-apocalyptic games look alike. Lots of murderous, leather-clad bandits driving around the desert in armored cars, trying to be Mad Max, but lacking the panache. It’s the…
August 15, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
As a longtime Thief player and a big fan of Amnesia, I hold high expectations for first-person immersive horror experiences. In Close to the Sun, Storm in a Teacup has made a first-person horror…
May 11, 2019 | 12:00 EDT