There’s a few things a game can do to win me over really quickly and one of those things is fully animated sections, bonus points if that extends to the…
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The difference between the side scrollers of yesteryear and today could not be more stark. For a genre that grew from humble roots of simply being able to go backwards…
Before Annapurna started branding itself as the publisher for the weird and wonderful world of experimental indie titles they really had a hard time breaking through to mainstream. To be…
One of the challenges in attempting to play (and review) a new game every week is managing the backlog of titles that I’ve accumulated in my review queue. For the…
Ah yes, this time of year. The one where I get to throw away some of my usual rules on what games I can review and can look more broadly…
I’ve tried to think about what it is about loosely or completely disconnected narrative games that irks me so much. To be sure I find interest in stories where there’s…
It’s been almost a decade since Journey was released and you will still find its influence weaved throughout the indie game scene. This is a testament to what it represented…
The public discourse on reviewing things has long since shifted away from subtly. No longer can something simply be good enough for its own sake, everything must fall into one…
You’d think with the ever increasing number of games released that I’d be flooded with titles that I was eager to play. It’s not the case unfortunately as a good…
The battle royale genre isn’t one I typically find myself gravitating to. Initially it was due to the slow pace and winner takes all aspects of it, something I wasn’t…