Category: Reviews
PolyRace races in for a review
PolyRace may seem like a deceptively basic and easy racing game at first glance, but it provides enough variety to be able to play though and try for the best times while not trying to crash and burn. After starting the game up and customizing the controls to my liking, I fired up a training […]
Witch & Hero II | Review
The original Witch & Hero was the second game I reviewed a few years back and I loved it. The game was the model of simplicity, both in approach and gameplay. Born from the look of the old school 8-bit era of games, Witch & Hero looked and felt like a game that could have […]
Space Grunts | Review
Space Grunts is a lovely little game available now on Steam for PC/Linux/Windows, the Humble Store, Apple’s App Store & Google Play. For this article I reviewed it on Linux. The game was released cross-platform at the end of February. The one-man development team, Orange Pixel, has a track record of creating simple cross-platform action […]
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games | Review
Did you ever have something in a game that really rubs you the wrong way and no matter what you do you can’t get passed it? It scan be a small thing, which isn’t even that big of a deal. But it just angers you every time you think of it? I had that with […]
Overfall Review, The world is alive
Reivew by: Brandon Hall Overfall is a new game from Pera games. Funded by Kickstarter and currently in early access, the game released March 1st. The game features a mix of turn based strategy, roguelike elements, and adventure, packaged in to a 2.5 format with a lot of emphasis on exploration. Each time you play […]
Battlefleet Gothic: First Impressions
If you have read any of my content at all on this site you know I absolutely love anything in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. So when I heard that Tindalos Interactive was bringing their expertise in space combat to the Warhammer universe I was extremely excited. The result of all of their hard work is Battlefleet […]
Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas | Review
Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas is a visual novel with exploration and puzzle solving elements. The game follows Hitomi Akeneno, a 16 year old high school student with a little secret – she has not one, but two psychic powers. After receiving an invitation, she boards a luxury cruise ship with her friend, […]
The Grumpy Reaper | Review
Grumpy Reaper? Grumpy Gamer. The Grumpy Reaper is kind of a hard game to peg. On the surface it looks like it could be a pretty fun game, however once I started to play it there were things that nagged at me. In the game you take on the role of Grumpy, a gardener I […]
Blood Alloy: Reborn A good start but needs work
Review by: Brandon Hall Blood Alloy: Reborn is a new early access game from Suppressive Fire Games. Its currently released in early access an introduction to the gameplay mechanics of a bigger game. Its tiny price tag of $13 is may put some people off, but it’s really just the start of a game. An […]
Deponia Doomsday Review: “We call this place ‘The Waste of Time’”
Review by Guest Editor: Luce Having never played a Deponia game before, I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. 10 hours of time looping nonsense later, rather unfortunately, I still wish I didn’t. Deponia Doomsday follows the entirely unlikable lead character Rufus, as he self-narrates his way through time and space. Along the […]
Sadame | Review
When describing this game to a friend I told him that the game feels like playing Double Dragon, but set in Feudal Japan. While that’s not completely accurate, it does lend to the way that the game feels when you play it. Aside from the fact that the game isn’t a two-player co-op, the game […]
The Culling is everything King of the Hill should be
Have you ever wanted to feel like you are in the Hunger games? Yah, me either, but I always thought it would make a cool video game. The culling starts off sounding like it’s just another king of the hill style combat game with some light crafting and exploration, but its managed to win over […]
Kôna: Day One or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Canadia
Let me just say that out of the gate, Kôna Day One captures the idea and view I have of Canada: Ice Age. Heh, all joking aside, I really liked this game. I got to see a little of it at PAX Prime last year and I was intrigued with what they were going to do with […]
Battlestation: Harbinger back from the dead
Review by Robyn Robo Back in 2014, a new independent developer in Finland by the name of Bugbyte started making mobile space combat games called Battlestation. Now, they’ve made their first PC release on Steam with Battlestation: Harbinger. This game has obvious mobile roots, but makes for a fun, affordable and instantly gratifying desktop game. […]
The Flame in the Flood Review
Review by Brandon Hall With nothing but a flashlight, staff, and your faithful companion, everything is important and the dangers are more real in the Flame and the Flood.The Flame in the Flood was made by development team members from the studios behind Bioshock, Halo 2, and Rockband. Knowing that the development team had members […]