Tag: writing
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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…
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The Multi-Class Weapon Pack: Tools for Every Hunt
The latest DLC for theHunter: Call of the Wild is called the Multi-Class Weapon Pack. It adds four new firearms to the game. No need for a single hunting style. The equipment allows you to shoot small birds, biggest game and anything in between. So if you’re willing to go on some digital hunting this…
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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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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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High Above is a beautiful little sandbox
High Above is a lovely, little “stress-free sandbox” game. It delivers surprisingly well on that promise of quiet, even if it fights you for the privilege of relaxing. It’s an interactive diorama. No need to save the world here. Just to try and put a damn potted plant three pixels to the left. If you…
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Origament: A Paper Adventure Folds, But Mostly Flies
Throughout the years, we’ve all played the “wholesome, emotional indie game where you play as an inanimate object.” It’s a whole genre now. Origament: A Paper Adventure is all about a magically awakened letter trying to find its recipient. On the plus side, you’re accompanied by a white cat companion. Cute. But past the saccharine…
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The Occultist is a Gorgeous, High-Stakes Ghost Hunt
The Occultist is a game that manages to drag that tired “paranormal investigator looking for his missing dad” premise onto a creepy British island and make it work. You play as Alan Rebels. He’s not a terrified teenager armed with a dying camcorder. He’s a pro. And that subtle shift in perspective actually makes a…
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Find Your Words: A Quiet Revolution in a 3-Ring Binder
Most games talk way too much, but say very little. So, sooner or later, your hand is forced to skip the cutscenes, ignore the dialogue trees, and just follow the glowing waypoint marker to the next objective. Find Your Words fixes that problem by just taking your voice away entirely. Speak Not, but Do Explore…
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ChainStaff is a Metal Album Soaked in Alien Guts
You’ve got an alien parasite bolted to your skull. It wants you to eat human organs. Yup. ChainStaff doesn’t care if you’re comfortable. It gladly gives you a Swiss Army knife made of alien bone, but then it fully expects you to survive a 1980s heavy metal album cover come to life. It is loud.…
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Cinderia is a Beautiful yet Clunky Engine of Destruction
If I were a betting man, I’d say we’re all getting a bit tired of the apocalypse. Every other week, a new indie darling drops onto Steam. Each game asks us to save some charred wasteland from a generic corruption. Cinderia presents itself as a dark fairytale. In this story, a witch burned the world.…
