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Europa (PC) Review

Some of the best stories in gaming are told in short-form, high-effort mediums, and I go out of my way to track them all down. Gone Home, Last Day of June, Before Your Eyes, and tons more have had a profound emotional effect on…

Echo Point Nova (PC) Review

It truly takes a lot to make a modern gamer disregard a price tag when it comes to the quality of a game. With budgets as tight as ever and a hypercritical market, a game needs to be perfect for players to…

Temtem: Swarm Demo Now Available

One of my most played games in 2024 has been Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, a bullet-heaven spinoff of the acclaimed Deep Rock Galactic. Seeing more hours than the game it derives from, the bullet-heaven bug proves hard to shake, as the auto-attacking addictiveness has made…

Hop ‘n’ Marty Demo Available Now

The 3D platformer genre is still going strong after its heyday a nigh twenty-five years ago when it dominated the Nintendo 64 console. Whether it’s the fervent nostalgia or the simplicity of its fun factor, these collectathons are still a joy to…

Office Overloaded Demo Now Available

There’s something about typing games that scratch an itch that other genres don’t for me. It’s the fact that I was trained to type in childhood and do so in my 9 to 5 that makes me quite adept in this particular…

Pinball Spire (PC) Review

The game that stuck out like a sore thumb and got me most excited for its full launch during a recent Steam Next Fest was Pinball Spire, an indie effort from Apparition Games. For those of us who grew up with pinball titles…

Pneumata (PS5) Review

Pneumata is defined as “soul, spirit” and more specifically, “holy spirit”. It’s also the namesake of a game that’s seen release on Steam and is gearing up for a PlayStation 5 release on October 4th, 2024. With a premise of searching for your…

Smells Like a Mushroom (PC) Review

The weirder a game, the more I want to play it. This rule of thumb, which disregards quality and polish in search of something that subverts the status quo, has led to many great gaming experiences over the years, whether it’s psychedelic…

Randy Pitchford Accepts Blame for Buggy Risk of Rain 2 DLC

Risk of Rain 2 has been held in high regard as one of the best action roguelikes on the market, ever since its release in 2020. With the combination of edge-of-your-seat adaptive difficulty and a plethora of randomized items, each run was a…

Hollow Survivors: Prologue (PC) Preview

Something I’ve seen from game developers in recent years is instead of releasing short demos, there are several-hour free trials with a wealth of content. A little-known fact is, back in the day, some demos contained the entire game within the disc/download.…