Tag: Reviews
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The Classic VA ‘Date A Live’ is a Huge Anime Time Sink
It absolutely sucks when giant spacequakes are tearing up the whole planet. In situations like these, there simply isn’t an easy solution… unless there is an ordinary high school kid who can take magical girls on dates to calm them down. Yup, this is a game shaped by pure and unfiltered anime logic. And we…
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Inside SOTO: Evolving the Survivor Genre With Luminas
The survivor roguelite genre has exploded in recent years. It has undeniably been largely defined by the single-character power trips of games like Vampire Survivors and Brotato. But what happens when you take that addictive core loop and introduce the strategic chaos of a full RPG party? That’s exactly what Luminas: Parasite Reign aims to…
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The Bleeding Ghost Story that is Dark Adelita
Dark Adelita is a game that really managed to surprise us. Instead of the usual nostalgia bait, it delivers something heavy. It drops us into post-revolutionary Mexico in 1918 and lets us shoot our way through literal nightmares. It’s the perfect example of a game that gives off breezy weekend vibes but instead serves a…
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Bus Bound offers Lighter and Faster Commute
We thought we were strapping in for a hardcore driving sim; instead, we got a city-management job. Regardless, we deeply enjoyed Bus Bound. What a ride! Bus Bound is one of those simulation games that we instantly fell in love with. It’s a game that respects your time, knows what it wants to do, and…
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Sunday Sims Spotlight: Knocking Down Walls
If you play The Sims 4, you likely spend a lot of time building and decorating houses. Dream Home Decorator is a pack that focuses heavily on this playstyle. In a way, it turns the game’s Build/Buy mode into an active career. By offering a structured approach to architectural design, it feels like a virtual…
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Demon Lord: A Brutal Puzzle in a World that Moves When you Do
Demon Lord: Just a Block is a roguelite that lets us play as a headless demon. If there’s one thing we’re fans of, it’s headless demons—the more the merrier, honestly. In YuWave’s title, we’re out to get revenge on a usurper Dragon Queen. The story is on the shorter side, but it still works well.…
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Magical Princess is a Second Job that’s Full of Wonders
We are ESL teachers, so you’d think dealing with real classrooms would prepare us for this. It didn’t. After the long day we had, we didn’t expect a parenting simulator to test our patience quite like a room full of rowdy second graders. Throw in a magical school and monster attacks, and suddenly trying to…
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SoulQuest is a 2D Devil May Cry Bloodbath
We play a lot of hack-and-slash indie games and we genuinely enjoy most of them, especially when they’re Steam Deck Verified. But while a small fraction of them just talk a big game, SoulQuest actually walks the walk. The weirdly written lines didn’t impress us much, but the combat and setting kept us coming back…
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Madness and Myths: Returning to The Shore on PS5
It’s been five years since The Shore first hit PC. We still remember 2021 pretty clearly—mostly because of the massive tentacled things that brought such a thick, heavy atmosphere with them. It was a solid experience, as long as you were okay with some technical rough edges. Now that the Enhanced Edition has landed on…
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Gambonanza: A Game for Those who Like and Don’t Like Chess
We admire chess. But we don’t like it. You make one bad move at the start and you just sit there, slowly losing for the next half hour. We have our spouse for that. We also have this old blender at home. Sometimes, just for the heck of it, we throw all kinds of stuff…
