Game Reviews

CrossCode holds a lot of promise as a game set inside a game. The base game took advantage of this with the plot’s many twists and turns, but the ending stopped just short of being a satisfying cap on the experience. Literally – after beating the big bad and saying

Humans will do anything for their pets, but would their pets do the same for them? In B.ARK,  players get to take the reins of stranded pets as they attempt to rescue their humans and put an end to a growing robot threat. Earth is being taken over by

Eldest Souls is unlike other games advertised as a Souls-like. This is because of its primary function as a boss rush game. As such, every other element that traditionally makes up a Souls-like has been stripped away from it to focus on this core feature.  The game puts you in

The country of Francia has seen better days. The poor die of the plague in the slums, while the affluent and important try and fail to stop an invasion of northern Vikingr. At the same time, the paranoid king, Charles the Fat, continually makes things worse for his people. As

Last Stop is a hard game to review, because it is ultimately more of a TV show, albeit an interactive one, than it is a video game. Think the Telltale series of games, but with players having even less control aside from dialogue choices. That said, the characters are complex

The next year is primed to bless us with a tremendous line-up of survival-horror first-person games, all of the nuclear-apocalypse variety, and The Farm 51 kicks off Chernobyl season in spectacular fashion with the aptly named Chernobylite. A healthy amount of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. influence is

When I reviewed Godfall in November of 2020, I mentioned that it felt like an entire element was missing — a fire world. It turns out, I was right. Whether it was, as I speculated then, a hard launch date for the PlayStation 5, or just that the team hadn’t

I’m not the best bowler in the world, but I certainly enjoy a good round or two with friends. There’s something about the comradery and competition when it comes to the sport, friends encouraging one another to hit the spare or facepalming when a gutter ball costs them