In my earliest gaming days, I loved playing Runescape. Jagex's long-running fantasy MMO, while not as high profile as its peers, maintained a strong grip on me thanks to its mix of grand fantasy…
March 29, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
It’s easy to consider pretension as nothing but a net negative, especially when you’re uncertain of what you’re dealing with. Not knowing exactly where the path will take you is certainly a fear-…
July 1, 2023 | 10:56 EDT
It's hard to understate how influential Resident Evil 4 has been on the industry. One of its prototypes would branch off and become the famous Devil May Cry series. Games like Gears of War, Uncharted…
March 17, 2023 | 03:05 EDT
South of the Circle is an experience clearly designed with a specific platform in mind. It was released on Apple Arcade in 2020 and a lot of its design decisions, from control scheme to UX to UI, can…
July 29, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
Welcome to New Ginen - a vibrant island town filled with tourist traps, snooty rich people, and a rich but forgotten culture overshadowed by visitor attractions. You play as the titular Voodoo…
July 11, 2022 | 10:00 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
What if robots survived the apocalypse that wiped out all humans on Earth? Well, then society might end up looking a little something like it does in Primordia, the first major release from indie…
March 3, 2022 | 11:30 EST
Our favorite violent maniacs are back! Sam and Max return to the Switch in the remastered version of Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, the second Telltale game about the duo. This time, the pair…
December 10, 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
New ports of fan-favorite Resident Evil 4 are nothing new, but Resident Evil 4 VR, out now on Oculus Quest 2, is the definitive survival horror experience that fans of this classic have been waiting…
October 27, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
It isn’t often that video games get Director’s Cut editions, but I think we’ll make an exception for Kathy Rain. The debut offering from developers Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury, Kathy…
October 26, 2021 | 11:00 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
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
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
If you're unfamiliar with the terms of Pascal's wager, it goes thus. Believing in God is better than not believing because if you don't believe and God is real, you'll be punished, whereas if you do…
March 11, 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
Team Meat’s hotly-anticipated blood-spattered auto-runner, Super Meat Boy Forever, has landed. It isn’t a bad game but I couldn’t help find it disappointing. As a sequel to 2010’s highly-acclaimed 2D…
January 4, 2021 | 12:00 EST
In 1945, English author George Orwell would see his novella Animal Farm published. The story is a fable, warning of the dangers of totalitarian rule through the lens of the Russian Revolution and the…
December 10, 2020 | 09:00 EST
With its deliberate lack of maps, icons, and any kind of navigational systems, it might seem like The Pathless is titled such just to describe its UI to you. But Giant Squid and Annapurna Interactive…
November 17, 2020 | 12:30 EST
This has been a doozy of a year for social gatherings and party games. With so many people still needing to isolate themselves, the idea of getting together to play video games like The Jackbox Party…
November 3, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Point-and-click adventures are about as old as mainstream gaming itself. From the early days of Maniac Mansion and Myst to the more modern titles such as The Walking Dead and Life Is Strange,…
August 3, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
When David Attenborough's Blue Planet II dropped anchor in 2017, it made a huge splash. Exploring the oceans and showing rare creatures, it was a record-breaker and a chance to glimpse a world that…
June 11, 2020 | 03:00 EDT
Each and every one of us has experienced true guilt at some point in our life. Shame because of what we did or didn't do, whether it was our fault or not. Some of you may be able to call to mind a…
May 30, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
If Found... seemed like a relatively unassuming visual novel. It mixes together certain contemporary sci-fi ideas with existentialist themes and young adult staples like aimlessness and self-identity…
May 28, 2020 | 12:00 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's something sort of harrowing about the bottom of the sea. Maybe it's the unknowable life forms or the darkness. Maybe it's the thought of millions of tons of water crushing your bones into a…
April 6, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Everything about Kentucky Route Zero really sounds like it should appeal to me. Like, really, every part. It's an episodic adventure game about a small town that is going through a particularly awful…
February 11, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Immersion in horror gaming is hard to achieve. More than any other genre, horror requires you to be completely sold on its narrative. That's very tough when the controller and TV are acting as an…
January 15, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Mobile games are on quite an uptick lately. While there's always been a decent amount of solid mobile experiences every year, there was definitely a time where most games available on your black…
December 23, 2019 | 01:00 EST
Every few months a mobile game comes along that makes me say “I can't believe this is on a phone”. While most of those titles involve slightly better FPS controls or is just a decently ported console…
November 22, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Like most people who grew up in the 90s and early millennium, the dream of having an arcade at home isn’t an uncommon one. While modern consoles, smartphones, and practically anything with a screen…
November 7, 2019 | 12:00 EST
What is it about role-playing games that drives us to passion? It seems more than any other genre we have RPG players and developers wear their hearts on their sleeves with ease, to the point of…
October 27, 2019 | 04:49 EDT
When I look back on all the Lyft and Uber rides I’ve taken in my life, not even the best ones come close to reflecting my experience playing Neo Cab. You play as a ride-share service driver in the…
October 9, 2019 | 06:44 EDT
New releases are constantly pushing the line between video games and movies. If it isn't David Cage stretching the boundaries of what counts as a game, the indie scene squeezes out walking simulators…
September 12, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Minimalism. The philosophy sparks joy in some. In many ways, SiNKR 2 reflects that joy. Developer Robert Wahler puts minimalism on a pedestal here, trimming out all the fat to leave players with the…
May 9, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
About a year ago, I wrote an editorial that discussed modern day politics through the lens of a video game. The center of that conversation, the indie simulation-strategy title Riot – Civil Unrest,…
February 4, 2019 | 04:00 EST
I'll admit, I'm no longer a JRPG person. It's a genre I used to care about quite a bit, but I now find that I lack the patience to sit through turn-based combat and overly convoluted anime-esque…
December 5, 2018 | 12:00 EST
Where Shadows Slumber is a game that I've been following for some time. I first saw a tiny poster with intriguing art at a Playcrafting event and got to talking with one of its developers. Since then…
November 27, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Like the CRPG, the classic point-and-click adventure is going through a revival. Story-driven and humorous, these games are often dismissed as casual and lacking in compelling gameplay or innovation…
July 10, 2018 | 09:00 EDT
Welcome to our Infinity Operation Red Veil review. For those unfamiliar with Infinity, it's a cyberpunk-esque miniatures skirmish game by Corvus Belli that is currently on its third edition (Infinity…
May 22, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
The last episode of Batman: The Enemy Within ended with John Doe making an important choice. Either he took after Harley Quinn's teachings and became a villain, or he took after Batman and became a…
April 16, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
For those unfamiliar with Infinity, it's a miniatures skirmish game by Corvus Belli that is currently on its third edition (Infinity N3). The rules are available as a free download via their…
April 12, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Secret of Mana is the recently released remake of the 1993 classic SNES JRPG of the same name. Back in the 1990's, I was very much a Sega fangirl. I missed out on a lot of the games which are now…
March 3, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within exceeds my expectations at every turn. Every time a new episode comes out, I find myself glued to the game for its two-hour runtime, and I'm always so excited to see how…
February 11, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within has just hit its halfway mark. The first two episodes have seen Batman dealing with various classic villains adorned with new twists. The season has managed to keep things…
December 21, 2017 | 11:00 EST
The last time I said "this is the perfect IP for Telltale and one that I can't wait to see what they do with" it was with Game of Thrones. That has rather infamously been considered one of Telltale's…
December 4, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series hasn't really been great. In fact, it'd be more accurate to say it barely manages to clear the bar of "good". Each episode has been a…
November 11, 2017 | 01:00 EST
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