Duskfade (PC) Review
If you’ve been reviewing games and covering games as long as I have, you start to get a sense for games that have a certain special quality to them. I’ve been reviewing and covering games for half of my 32 years of…
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Ledgerbound (PC) Review
If I were one of an archetypal party of RPG heroes locked in the throes of battle with a dastardly final boss, just about the last thing I would want to have to worry about is whether or not the adventurers’ insurance…
Backyard Baseball 2026 (PC) Review
Many games defined my childhood: Star Wars Battlefront II (`05), Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, SSX Tricky, Fuzion Frenzy, & Backyard Baseball! To say that Playground Productions has reactivated parts of my childhood memory is an understatement. The recent re-releases of the classic…
Ugly Betty “Twenty-Four Candles” – Review
It has finally happened: the writer’s strike has ended, and Dr Horrible is months away, setting in stone a clear breakpoint in writing for this era. The first director of this shiny, full HD and somewhat “overly lit” era of Ugly Betty is…
Blue Reflection Quartet (Switch 2) Review
Blue Reflection Quartet is a collection of four games ripe with tropes in the larger Japanese entertainment media ecosystem. We have magical girls, mysterious worlds that exist alongside our own, and world-saving consequences running parallel to slice-of-life narratives. There isn’t necessarily an element…
Big Walk (PC) Review
When most people think about open-world games, they often believe that more is better. More people, more buildings, more missions, more items, and more everything. House House has done the opposite of that and managed to make less better in their newest…
Gunstoppable (PC) Review
I have gladly welcomed the surge in roguelite FPS games flooding the Steam marketplace lately. Whether it’s Deadzone Rogue, Abyssus, or Voidbreaker, leveraging my twitch reflexes and longstanding prowess in battle arenas with a sense of regular progression and diversity in runs is…
Lies of P: Complete Edition (Switch 2) Review
Developer Neowiz released a game in 2023 that I mistakenly underestimated. In part, a Souls-like inspired by a 19th-century novel wasn’t necessarily something that sounded like it would work well on paper. Instead, I was pleased to play through Lies of P with a smile…
Ugly Betty “A Thousand Words Before Friday” – Review
He looks like the investment banker who makes a mess of a train on a Tuesday after being a skinny, pretty woman’s 13th reason on the Saturday. Directed by someone new, the first of his three episodes, Matt Shakman joins before going…
K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut (Xbox Series X) Review
For many, the world of K-Pop is just as much about the industry as it is the music. Not to say people are fans of the grueling work that goes into stardom, but there’s something about the spectacle of debuts, solo efforts,…