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Developed By: teamCOIL Categories: Maze, Bullet Hell Release Date: 2.19.21 Puss! is some shitpost-like, avant-garde, vaporwave game. With cats. In Mazes. It’s like watching Adult Swim at 4AM. That is honestly the best way to describe this game. It starts…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Heliocentric Studios Published By: Team17 Categories: Adventure, RPG, Roguelike Release Date: 02.23.19 What do you get when you take a classic 2D Legend of Zelda game, mix roguelike type dungeons, add some pretty indepth RPG elements. You get…
Continue readingAstrologaster – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: NyamyamPublished By: Plug In DigitalCategory: Narrative ComedyRelease Date: February 18, 2021 Your initial impression of Astrologastor upon starting a new game may cause a grin to appear across your face. A silly Monty Python style…
Continue readingToday’s game, Knight’s Retreat, integrates parts of the basic chess formula to build a unique, engaging, strategic puzzle game.
Continue readingDeveloper: Fancy Fish Games Publisher: Whitethorn Digital Genre: Adventure, Role-Playing, Simulation Released: 11th February 2021 For a game titled such, you sure spend quite a bit of time underground.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Code Mystics Published By: SNK Categories: Retro Compilation Release Date: 03.17.21 I have always been fascinated by the NeoGeo Pocket Color. From my adolescence when I would read about it’s games in magazines all the way to my…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Casey Donnellan Games LLC Published By: Tinybuild Games Categories: Exterminator Release Date: 03.04.21 The term “Kill it With Fire” is often used when regarding spiders. Especially the big scary ones. The definitive way to get rid of those…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Toys for Bob Published By: Activision Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.11.21 The long awaited Crash 4: It’s About Time came out last year on PS4 and Xbox Series X to both fan and critical praise. In a wild…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pavel Kostin Published By: HeroCraft Categories: Adventure Release Date: 02.04.21 Odysseus Kosmos is a funny, good looking, and rather lengthy adventure game. It has one big issue that kills my entire experience with it though. Odysseus Kosmos is…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Elden Pixels Published By: Decemberborn AB Categories: Retro, Metroidvania Release Date: 02.18.21 What’s this, an 8-Bit Metroidvania-type game? Don’t mind if I do. If this sounds up your alley, Cathedral will be a good time. At first, I…
Continue readingI suppose I could spend some time talking about the backstory of Noble Armada: Lost Worlds. I could talk about the tabletop RPG setting it is based on, Fading Suns. Or I could go into how it was successfully funded on Kickstarter.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Cradle Games Published By: Tinybuild Games Categories: Soulslike, Action Release Date: 02.25.21 Hellpoint is Dark Souls mixed with Event Horizon. So Dark Souls in Space! To properly explain this, Dark Souls is a hard series. It’s a methodical…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Clever Beans Published By: Koch Media, Deep Silver Categories: Action, RPG Release Date: 01.28.21 It’s always nice to be surprised by a game. Gods Will Fall did not seem entirely up my alley before playing it. Upon playing…
Continue readingBenjamin Franklin once said, “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” This game takes that idea and crafts it into a master class adventure.
Continue readingDeveloped By: The Socially Awkward Studio Categories: Puzzle Release Date: 03.12.21 Sokodice is a relaxing kind of puzzle game that you just sit down, think, and take your time to solve the riddles. It also will probably make you feel…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Grimorio of Games Categories: Roguelite, RPG Release Date: 01.28.21 You would do anything to bring back a loved one, right? Risk life and limb for the Sword of the Necromancer, a blade capable of returning the dead back…
Continue readingIn the case of Super Robot Wars V, that means trying to tie together eighteen different series into one story. It’s like a crossover fanfiction gone horribly wrong, yet so terribly right at the same time, told in a visual novel format broken up by turn-based strategy levels.
Continue readingI can’t recall a game that I have more mixed feelings about than Summer Catchers for the Nintendo Switch. It’s an interesting take on the classic infinite runner with a cool visual aesthetic and a cute story.
Continue readingDeveloper: Studio Nanafushi Publisher: Marvelous Entertainment Genre: Role-playing, action, adventure, platforming Released: 12/3/2020 I don’t really have many good memories of my time enrolled in mandatory education. School really was a place to just cram curated information into our heads…
Continue readingDeveloped By: The Game Bakers Categories: Adventure, RPG Release Date: 02.04.21 A couple, away from it all, hiding from those who search to tear them apart and force them to live a selected life. Soon their ship, their home is…
Continue readingSet in 2048, use cunning, stealth and strategy to discover the corrupt agenda hidden within the cyberpunk future of New York City.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Imaginary Monsters / Peter Lazarski Published By: Chuhai Labs Categories: Retro, Platformer Release Date: 02.12.21 I really like holiday themed games. They’re really not common anymore, so it’s always a shock to see them. Here we have Halloween…
Continue readingSNK Vs Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumNintendo Switch Developed By: Code Mystics, SNKPublished By: SNKCategory: FightingRelease Date: 02.17.21 I can’t even tell you how excited I was when SNK Vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium entered our review…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Shout! Design Works Co. Published By: Arc System Works Categories: Visual Novel, RPG, Dungeon Crawler Release Date: 02.04.21 It’s a visual novel, no it’s an RPG, no it’s a dungeon crawler! Actually, it’s all three. They all happen…
Continue readingThe highlight of the presentation was the announcement of the next entry in Square-Enix’s HD-2D library, Project Triangle Strategy. It’s the spiritual (and visual) successor to one of my favorite Switch games so far and previous Nintendo Direct surprise reveal, Octopath Traveler.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pixel Perfect Dude Published By: PM Studios Categories: Driving Release Date: 02.16.21 Much like the film, Pieces’ tagline “It’s exactly what you think it is”, #Drive is exactly what you think it is. A driving game. You drive….
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