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Developed By: PopCap Games Published By: Electronic Arts Categories: Shooter Release Date: 03.19.21 Plants versus Zombies…who will win. Or rather, who do you want to win? With Battle for Neighborville, instead of the series’ tower defense roots (heh), we have…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Kylotonn Published By: Nacon Categories: Rally Racing, Simulation Release Date: 03.11.21 WRC 9 is an unfortunate case for the Switch. I hate to say things like this, but WRC9 probably shouldn’t be on the Switch. It’s not a…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Studio Fizbin Published By: Thunderful Games Categories: NO! Release Date: 04.09.21 You’ve started a new job in an office as an intern. A shy person really, never being able to muster anything at any situation. Your new job…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Gagonfe, Ulon, and Rhowsl Published By: No Gravity Games Categories: Favor simulator Release Date: 03.11.21 Bob Help Them is a simple game. People want something, you get it for them. Chop wood, collect food, fish, cook. Pet the dog. Alright,…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Mommy’s Best Games Categories: Shooter Release Date: 03.18.21 Explosionade DX is a gross game. It’s grimy, it’s metallic, it’s chunky and there’s gonna be a mess everywhere. Good thing you’re in a mechsuit. This is a…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pixel.lu, Sometimes You (porting duties) Published By: Pixel.lu Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.03.21 In Sir Lovelot the goal is to love…a lot. Go from tower to tower, princess to princess, like it’s nothing. Hope you at least bothered…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Foreign Gnomes (Chris Nordgren and Jordi Roca) Published By: Surefire.Games Categories: RPG, Rhythm Release Date: 03.04.21 Everhood is a game that’s a big hard to describe. It’s like an RPG, but there’s no experience. Fights aren’t random. To…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Arzest, Balan Company Published By: Square Enix Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.26.21 Balan Wonderworld seems to be a bit of a reunion of the people who created Sonic the Hedgehog. Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima, together for the…
Continue readingDeveloper: Rolling Glory Jam, Fahmitsu Publisher: Flynn’s Arcade Categories: Narrative Release Date: 04.01.21 What comes after? You know, after death? The game What Comes After explores this topic and puts it front and center on the stage. In it, you…
Continue readingDeveloped 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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….
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Tino Games Categories: Card Game, Roguelike Release Date: 02.21.21 You’re familiar with those Korean MMOs that seem to overrun app stores nowadays, right? Neoverse looks just like that. This gave me a bit of a poor…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Drowning Monkeys Games Categories: Retro Release Date: 02.25.21 Do you like original arcade Donkey Kong? I mean, really like it. If so, then you’re probably going to love Castle Kong, granted you can look past a…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Capcom Categories: Retro, Action,Platformer, Nintendo Hard Release Date: 02.25.21 Ghosts ‘n Goblins seems to be that one old school franchise that Capcom remembers exists at least once a decade. Counting only console games and the Maximo…
Continue readingDeveloped By: ROBI Studios Published By: Graffiti Games Categories: Platformer, Adventure Release Date: 02.04.21 3D Metroidvania seems like the best way to describe Blue Fire. Go on an adventure in a somewhat open path, going area to area. Getting upgrades…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: The Irregular Corporation Composer: Christopher Larkin Categories: Adventure, Point and Click Release Date: 01.28.21 Quirky and Adventure games seem to meld together well, yeah? TOHU is particularly quirky. It’s cute, it’s strange, and much like other…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: 34BigThings Categories: Rail Shooter, Space Shooter Release Date: 01.22.21 Imagine Stat Fox. Now just have the space levels, make it western, change the mercenaries to security security, and then remove the furries. That’s Redout: Space Assault….
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Mission Ctrl Studios Categories: Shooter Release Date: 01.15.21 Boomer Shooter is the right kind of term for something like Writhe, right. It feels like it at the very least. Writhe is a fast paced first person…
Continue readingDeveloped By: YummyYummyTummy Published By: Nippon Ichi Software American Categories: RPG Release Date: 02.16.21 You’ve heard the term, don’t judge a book by it’s cover, right? Usually it’s for a game that looks a bit of a shabby, but actually…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Tarsier Studios Published By: Bandai Namco Entertainment Categories: Platformer, Puzzle, Horror Release Date: 02.11.21 Following up to critically acclaimed games, especially the surprise new IPs that come from smaller developers can be hard. Little Nightmares was one of…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: BeautiFun Games Categories: Puzzle Release Date: 12.28.20 I don’t often play puzzle games that make me feel dumb, but boy oh boy does Professor Lupo: Ocean make me feel lacking at times. You awaken in a…
Continue readingDeveloped By: StoryBird Games Published By: No Gravity Games (Digital) VGNYsoft (Physical) Categories: Platformer Release Date: 01.28.21 Beautiful spritework, high replayability, good platforming an action. Golden Force checks off all of the requisites for being one of my favorite games…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Mechanical Head Studios/Aarne Hunziker Published By: Yacht Club Games Composer: pentadrangle/Enrique Martin Categories: Retro, Platformer Release Date: 01.26.21 Sounding like a broken record at this point, but there’s no length that I couldn’t go on about how much…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Echo Games Published By: Coconut Island Games Categories: Beatemup, Roguelike, Rhythm Release Date: 01.14.21 It’s a peaceful, funky time with the animals. Until mutated vegetables threaten to ruin that. Rhythm Fighter is not a fighter, but instead a…
Continue readingDeveloped By: VRESKI Published By: Untold Tales Categories: Twinstick Shooter Release Date: 12.26.20 Lets get this out of the way immediately. The Hong Kong Massacre is an absolutely stunning looking game. It has a strong, striking look to it. The…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Bolverk Games Categories: Platformer, Roller Release Date: 02.01.21 Do you like those games where you roll around as a ball and there’s some physics involved, because I do. Glyph is like that, but you’re more in…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Studio Gauntlet Published By: Crunching Koalas Categories: Co-Op, Puzzle Release Date: 01.29.20 Is it really fair to judge a game that prides itself on being a cooperative experience for having a poor single player experience? When it outright…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Factor 5 (Original games), Ratalaika Games (ports) Published By: ININ Games Categories: Retro, Shooter, Compilation Release Date: 01.29.20 When people think of the Amiga and it’s standout games, Factor 5’s work on the Turrican series. And for good…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Orange Pixel Categories: Retro, Adventure Release Date: 12.08.20 Loot, loot, loot, loot, loot. Collect that loot. Go deeper into the dungeons. Make sure you don’t die. Call Heroes of Loot something to the likeness of Gauntlet…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Flow Fire Games Categories: Twinstick Shooter Release Date: 12.16.20 Perhaps the best way to describe Synthetik is chunky. You know, as in the way shooting has weight to it and it just makes enemies feel chunky…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Red Dev Studio Published By: No Gravity Games Categories: Cube Roller Release Date: 12.11.20 In Splashy Cube you do two things. Move forward, and move left. All in a the quest to get to the goal. The game…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Gunfire Games Published By: THQ Nordic Categories: Action, RPG Release Date: 12.01.21 Chronos had so much potential, I even was enjoying myself initially in spite of the flaws it had. It didn’t take very long however for me…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Cosmikenkai Published By: Eastasiasoft Categories: Arcade, Puzzle Release Date: 12.17.20 I already know why most people are going to buy this game. I also know that in spite of that, this is a fun puzzle game that I…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Wonderboy Bobi Published By: No Gravity Games (Digital) Pixelheart (Physical) Categories: Platformer, Retro Release Date: 12.10.20 NES Nostalgia this, Genesis Nostalgia that. Where’s the Master System nostalgia? Well, with Tanuki Justice, it’s here. I’ve seen comparisons to late…
Continue readingDeveloped By: LaPointe Joints Published By: Flynn’s Arcade Categories: Twinstick Shooter Release Date: 12.03.20 Gunpig was a pleasant surprise to me. I was put off when I first saw a screenshot of the titular character in it’s ship. The game…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Deqaf Studio Published By: No Gravity Games Categories: Thief Simulator Release Date: 11.26.20 Picklock has an amazing idea you don’t see often enough, being a petty thief, breaking into houses, businesses, and then making your life all the…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Bit Loom Games Published By: Coatsink Categories: 3D Platformer Release Date: 12.03.20 Imagine you have a game like Noby Noby Boy. Then turn it into a 3D platformer. Still with me? Now add dogs. Dogs stuck together. Recipe…
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