Category: Reviews
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Neopets’ Odyssey is a Ghost Town Dressed in HD
Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate. You aren’t buying this because you want a mechanically tight, highly refined arcade experience. You are buying it because you’re chasing the dragon of 2004. You want to remember what it felt like to rush home from middle school, fire up the family desktop, and…
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The Heart and Strategy of Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime
If you told me that one of the most mechanically sound tactical battlers of 2026 would involve a bear in a frog onesie and a collection of amphibians in tiny hats, I’d have asked what you’re smoking. But Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime is real, it’s weird, and it’s surprisingly brilliant. Coming from the Dutch duo…
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Crimson Desert: A Breath-Taking Masterpiece
After years of “will they, won’t they” development and a massive pivot from an MMO to a single-player epic, Crimson Desert is finally here. Pearl Abyss has spent a literal fortune trying to prove they can compete with the likes of The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2. It is an incredibly ambitious, often…
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Tides of Tomorrow: Unforgettable Adventure!
DigixArt, the minds behind the brilliant Road 96, are back. We recently got our hands on an early build of their latest project, Tides of Tomorrow, to see what kind of weird and wonderful experience they’ve cooked up this time. Moving away from dusty highways, the studio is now tossing us into a vast, unforgiving ocean. Here…
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The Rogue Prince of Persia: Crowns, combos and control!
Turning a 35-year-old legendary franchise into a punishing, “die-and-retry” roguelite is a massive gamble. But if anyone was going to pull it off, it had to be the team at Evil Empire. After years of carrying the torch for Dead Cells, they’ve taken the keys to Ubisoft’s Persian palace, and the result is honestly one…
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Inky Blinky Bob: Corporate Horror Madness
Let’s be real: the gaming world didn’t exactly have “Lovecraftian hot air balloon combat” on its 2026 bingo card. But here we are. Inky Blinky Bob, the first big swing from Dubai’s Eldelic Games, is easily one of the weirdest things I’ve played this year. It’s essentially what happens when you mix a Victorian travel…
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Teardown’s Massive Multiplayer Update Redefines Voxel Chaos
Pulling off the perfect heist means making a great plan and escaping without a scratch. For a long time, Tuxedo Labs’ hit game Teardown let players live out those crazy, destructive dreams all by themselves. But now, everything has changed! On March 12, 2026, a massive, highly anticipated multiplayer update dropped on Steam. It lets up to…
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Vespera Bononia: A Macabre Dance of Magic
We’ve seen the roguelite genre explode over the last few years, but it’s rare to find a title that feels this specific. Vespera Bononia, the debut from Italian indie studio Power Up Team, takes the claustrophobic, projectile-heavy madness of a 2D bullet-hell and shoves it into a dark, 3D reimagining of medieval Bologna. It’s fast,…
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Mythmatch: Olympus Has Fallen
If you told me that a game about merging twigs and stones would be the most biting critique of Silicon Valley culture in 2026, I’d have laughed. But Mythmatch from Team Artichoke is exactly that. It takes the “casual” mechanics we usually associate with mobile games and turns them into a weapon against greedy gods…
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Grind Survivors: Hell on Earth, Re-Rolled
We’ve reached a point where “survivor-likes” are everywhere, usually sporting the same retro pixel-art look to save on performance. But Grind Survivors, the debut original IP from the Ukrainian team at Pushka Studios, takes a different path. Dropping the pixels for Unreal Engine, they’ve built a dark, high-fidelity bullet-hell that feels more like an ARPG…
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