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Football Manager 26 (PC) – Review

The trouble with reinventing the wheel from scratch after you’ve already perfected it is the simple fact that most people like a smooth ride. Football Manager 26 is one of those moments where the wheel is being reinvented, coming two years following…

Absolum (PC) Review

I’ve played Rogue-lites that have mixed with several other genres, whether it be ARPGs, deckbuilders, or even brick breakers. But one genre that has seemingly gone untapped is the beat-em-up. Quarter-munchers from back in the day have seen continued success in the…

SNW “What Is Starfleet?” – Review

Military, we’ve established this before, and I don’t just mean in Lower Decks. Directed by Sharon Lewis, who sadly is best known for reality TV peddled as documentarian stuff: Restaurant Makeover, World’s Worst Mom, Property Brothers, TVO Kids show It’s My Party!…

Once Upon a Katamari (PC) Review

The Katamari games always hit the right mix of fun, chill, and weird for me. I’ve played all of them so far, and each one adds a bit of goofy fun to the mix. Once Upon a Katamari may not reinvent the…

Spindle (PC) Review

Many action games let you play as Death or let you utilize Death’s powers in various ways. However, very few games make you sit down and think about what being the Grim Reaper would actually be like. Spindle is a game that…

SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” – Review

So, Shub-Niggurath eats the USS Enterprise after devouring Klingons and beyond, and now we have the TOS’ crew together. Directed by Valerie Weiss, Weiss previously directed “Ad Astra Per Aspera” as well as Netflix’s Julie Bowen-led coming-of-age teen drama thing, Mixtape. While…

Little Nightmares 3 (Nintendo Switch 2) Review

The Little Nightmares franchise is not necessarily a genre-defining, all-time triumph in either platformers or horror games. That said, the desire for a third game in the series was strong enough that, despite the original developers wanting to move on to new things,…

Twinkleby (PC) Review

Thanks to the ever-evolving (or devolving, depending on how you look at it) horrors of daily society, cozy gaming has become an increasingly integral part of my gaming life. Things that I can simply relax with have become more enjoyable for me…

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club (Nintendo Switch) Review

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club has something going for it that almost every other game does not. Snoopy is in it. The pop culture icon has seen a resurgence with Gen-Z, including collaborations with The Red Cross for blood drive merch, a…

Lessaria (PC) Review

Under my reviewing microscope today is Lessaria, a high-fantasy real-time strategy game developed by Rockbee Team and published by Polden Publishing. Lessaria purports to be “bringing back the RTS genre” by itself. That’s quite a bold claim, and I intend to thoroughly…