Category: Reviews
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Restore Your Island is a Cozy Trash Sim
Try as we might, we simply can’t have enough of the cozy games. We are tired, however, of inheriting all the dead relatives’ properties. We still want cozy games, just not the same type of cozy. Fifty farms are enough, thank you very much. When Restore Your Island crossed our screens, we braced ourselves for…
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Dead as Disco is a Bloody and Brilliant Mosh Pit
Revenge is a dish best served at 120 beats per minute. Most rhythm games have you tapping to cute anime songs or slicing shiny boxes. That’s not the case with this one. Dead as Disco has you smashing a guitar over your old lead singer’s head to a heavy bassline. You play a literal dead…
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The Complex Russian Roulette that is Sol Cesto
Games that pretend to be fair are simply the worst. You know the ones. The shiny new roguelites that pat you on the head and promise that if you just learn the attack patterns perfectly, you will definitely survive. Sol Cesto throws away any pretense. It drops you onto a 2D grid and then spins…
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Is Starfield on PS5 a Glorious Fixer-Upper?
When Bethesda first dropped this massive space RPG, it sometimes felt a bit like playing a spreadsheet interrupted by loading screens. But years of patches and loud fans forced their hand. Now it’s on PS5 with the huge “Free Lanes” update and the “Terran Armada” DLC. Against all odds, the game is much better now.…
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People of Note is a passionate gig you shouldn’t skip
A turan-based RPG musical where you literally fight to the beat sounds like a recipe for disaster. But, Stray Gods was also a musical and we love that game to death. People of Note is a game that has a lot on its plate. And yet, somehow, it actually pulls it off. It has the…
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Skull Horde: A Great Bone Pile of Fun
There are way too many auto-battlers right now. It’s a giant pile of cheap games meant to steal your free time. But sometimes, a good game climbs out of the trash. One such game is Skull Horde. Playing as a floating skull, your job is to build an army. And then to kill endless waves…
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Puzzling Places is 3D Glue for Broken Brains
We’ve never liked jigsaw puzzles. They hog the table, you always lose an edge piece, and the sheer mental effort of matching cardboard shapes feels like a chore. We admire the people who have the patience for it, though. So, when we loaded up Puzzling Places—a game strictly about assembling 3D scans of European architecture—we…
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Darts VR 2 is a Solid Game Night at Home
VR darts might not sound like the most thrilling concept on paper. It is, after all, just standing in a room of some sort, throwing invisible objects. But Darts VR 2: Bullseye manages to take that simple idea and make it surprisingly addictive. You put the headset on expecting to play a round or two,…
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Conan Turns Jotunnslayer Into a Bloody Meat Grinder
Let’s place Norse mythology on a hold for a second. We’re in the desert now, and we brought a barbarian. Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel was already doing a solid job cracking skulls in the crowded auto-shooter arena. To us, it was, and still is, one of the best Vampire Survivor inspired games. It had the…
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One Gun, Zero Hope: Bleeding Out in ‘The Void’
Inspired by Stephen King’s The Mist and heavy spiritual theology, The Void is upcoming FPS is pure hostility. You get one gun. That’s it. No weapon wheel to swap through. No magical armory. Just you, a single firearm, and an incoming nightmare. Built in Unreal Engine by solo developer Jeffy Zachariah—who previously handled real-time cinematography…
