Strap in for this one, y’all. If you know anything about Hotel Barcelona prior to this, you already know why I’m giving you this warning, but this game is a marriage of two wild and insane (in a good way?) minds. The…
I do love my gay magic pirate, spoilers for another show, I guess. Returning from last season’s 5th episode, “Charades,” Jordan Canning makes her second of three runs out as director for Strange New Worlds. While the writing credits are something I’m…
Here is, in its entirety, the thought I had immediately before I started writing this article: “Oh dear, I haven’t moved anything except my right arm in several hours, and I’ve apparently just played Digseum from start to finish in a single…
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and it is a tasty one too. Developed by Paper Castle Games and published by Fellow Traveller, Wander Stars is a turn-based RPG that is so heavily inspired that I think it is almost fair…
Absurdly strange dreams are an almost nightly occurrence for me. Compared to the nightmares I used to have, though, I’ll gladly take the weird dreams with which those nightmares seem to have been replaced. I’d much rather wake up asking myself, “What…
The story of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile is iconic. It is one of her more famous works, spawning numerous films and adaptations. It is fairly obvious that Microids’ Studio Lyon would adapt it in one of their games in the…
Playing games growing up with the sixth and seventh generation of consoles meant exploring vast, sprawling 3D worlds where I could let my imagination be captivated and run wild. Whether it was a Zelda, a Ratchet & Clank, or anything in between, the prospect…
I loved Strange Horticulture when I played it a year or so ago. Something about the cozy, relaxed nature of identifying plants, with eldritch, spooky elements thrown in, just made for a nice time. Now, the developers have tickled my urge to…
It always warms my cynical heart to see a game I enjoy launch successfully out of Steam Early Access. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is the newest entry to that list. Steam tells me I spent about fifteen hours playing Deep Rock Galactic:…
I see that I’m the default translator then, fandabidozi (phan-dab-ae-dozi). Directed by Warehouse 13 Seasons 3 and 4, the season 1 finale and season 2 opener of Strange New Worlds, and more than a baker’s dozen of The Magician director, Chris Fisher…