Subaeria (Illogika, $14.99 USD) is rougelike action puzzler in which you play a teenaged protagonist named Styx who is prone to hacking her VR game unit to get more time online. The problem with that is that Subaeria is set in a time when all crime is punishable by “cleansing” […]
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Sea of Thieves is a Microsoft play anywhere title by Rare that is available for Xbox One and PC. It currently costs $59.99 US. Anyone who knows me knows I love pirates. Anything pirate themed immediately grabs my attention and gets me excited; my favorite movie of all time since […]
(Disclaimer: I received a review code for a free copy of Celeste, but that has not influenced my opinions of this title in any way). Celeste is the latest title by MATT MAKES GAMES, and Indie developer known for the hit game Towerfall released back in 2013. Similar to Towerfall, Celeste […]
Note: I used an italicized ‘Orwell’ when talking about the game as a whole and ‘Orwell’ when talking about specifics of the governmental program within the game. Over break I bought a game called Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You. I had never heard of this game before but it […]
(Disclaimer: I received a review code for a free copy of Dynasty Feud, but that has not influenced my opinions of this title in any way). Many of my friends know that fighting games are one of least favorite genres. Admittedly sometimes that is not the fault of the game […]
(Full disclosure: I received a review code for a free copy of Gear Club Unlimited, but that has not influenced my opinions of this title in any way) So it is no small secret around here that my driving in video games is absolutely abominable, kart racers may or may […]
This week has brought us tons of new game releases. We can solve grisly murder mysteries co-operatively in Hidden Agenda, punch Nazis in Wolfenstein II, explore Egypt as a man of color in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, and finally be a dinosaur (and just about anything else) in Super Mario Odyssey. […]
I have had a thing for horror and suspense involving corn fields long before I literally moved to the middle of one 17 years ago. It started when I was in high school huddled together with my best friend in her basement watching the film Children of the Corn (1984). Children […]
The Sexy Brutale is a puzzle adventure game from Tequila Works (2017) and is available on Xbox One, PS4, and Steam. It only seemed fitting that the kids were fascinated with the idea of playing Clue during the same week that I was set to play The Sexy Brutale (Xbox One) […]
It is no small secret that television isn’t really my thing. I watch a couple of choice (my choice and likely no one else’s) shows and that’s about it. I subscribe to HBO Now for the duration of the Game of Thrones season, I wait anxiously for new Marvel series […]
It was 6 years ago when I ran into a big, crude-talking, anthro-pomorphized penis shaped gun (in)appropriately named Johnson in Shadow of the Damned and I thought that video games had reached an all time low with offensive sidekick/weapons in video games…until now. I have to admit that I was […]
When we were offered the chance to do a review of Klonk Games’ 3rd puzzle platform, Shift Happens (Xbox One/PS4/PC), I jumped at the chance because I thought that it would not only be a fun game to play with the kids, but also a fun game to play with […]
I’ve always appreciated games that operate under a simple premise. Anything that involves solving a puzzle or accomplishing a simple task appeals to the part of my brain that was solidly addicted to playing Tetris on my Gameboy Pocket when I was ten, always striving to reach the next level, […]
When I first saw the “Coming Soon” link for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal (available on Steam, XBox One, and PS4) I have to admit that I may have squealed a bit. A puzzle platformer with an adorable little blue dragon-like character. It sounded like the perfect game to play with my […]
The first real enemy I came across in Zenith was a horde of giant spiders. In a fantasy RPG, massive arachnids aren’t uncommon monsters to encounter, and are something of a cornerstone when it comes to game worlds full of magical adventures. What I didn’t expect, however, was for the […]
One of the things that my daughter and I have done since she was old enough to pick in a high chair at the table with me and wield a kid sized knife is cook together. When she was little more than a toddler “cooking” looked a lot like mushing […]