Category: Reviews
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Treeplanter is a Guilt-Free Terrarium
Treeplanter: Plant real trees is a small, quiet experiment. It manages to do something most big-budget games wouldn’t dream of. If you buy this game, Henry Driver, who is the lead dev and a farmer himself, actually goes out and plants a sapling. Then he takes care of it fir years to come. We feel…
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The End of the Sun: A Timeless Slavic Folklore Mystery
We hope you are looking for a break from action-heavy blockbusters. If you do, The End of the Sun might catch your eye. The game is created by a tiny two-person team from Poland over the course of eight years. It’s a first-person adventure game drops you into a beautiful, if somewhat lonely, Slavic fantasy…
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Valorborn Wants You Dead, and That’s Okay
Valorborn is one of those games that don’t give a wooden nickle about your hero complex. The game drops you into a massive medieval simulation and tells you to figure it out. Or die trying. Dying happens a lot. No one will hold your hand here or whisper sweet nothings about your magical destiny. This…
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Two Minds, One Moon: The Genius of Pragmata
Capcom teased us for years with weird holograms and a sad android girl. There was something clearly special about the game, even though some were extremely doubtful whether Capcom could actually do anything with this new IP. Now that Pragmata is finally out, the long wait makes sense. Playing two games at once sounds like…
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REPLACED is a Beautiful Neon Brawler
We can’t believe the day has come. We’ve been waiting for REPLACED for years. We never cared about the deep lore. We wanted this thing because it looks like a madman dragged it out of the deepest corners of hell. It, then drowned it in a bucket of grim 80s neon, and, finally, dumped it…
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Atomic Heart is BioShock Wrapped in Red Tape #1
We love how Atomic Heart drops us into a beautiful flying Soviet city. It looks and feels amazing. Some say that when the characters open their mouts the illusion cracks a bit. We didn’t mind the cringe dialogue. On the contrary, we welcomed it. It’s part of what makes this game stand out. Not everything…
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Galactic Vault is a Mutant Gun Sandbox
Is it just us, or is everyone is making sci-fi roguelite games about evil corporations right now? I mean, we get it, there’s something insanely addicting about waking up, shooting drones, grabbing loot, and, well, dying. We’ve all played a game or dozen like that. But all Galactic Vault wants is for you to build…
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The Day I Became a Bird: Art Over Action
The Day I Became a Bird leans entirely into low stakes and high aesthetics. You are Frank. You have a crush on Sylvia, a girl completely obsessed with birds. Naturally, you decide to build a bird suit to win her affection. It is a wonderfully pure premise that we enjoyed greatly. But when you look…
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Aether & Iron is a Gorgeous Traffic Jam
Imagine the 1930s never ended, but gravity did. You’re Gia Randazzo, a smuggler in a New York that’s been shattered into floating islands. These islands are actually held up by a glowy, unstable junk called Aether (hence the half part of the title). Now imagine BioShock Infinite meets The French Connection, but with turn-based car…
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Fishbowl Gets Real About Working From Home
You know how most games make you a superhero? Fishbowl just asks you to survive a Tuesday. You’re 21. You live alone. Your grandma just passed away, and your boss still wants you to finish editing videos. It’s rough. Fishbowl is basically about dealing with grief while trying to pay rent. You hang out in…
