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Shogun Showdown Plays Like the Best Samurai Movies Feel

Samurai have got some of the best branding out of all of the old world warriors from yesteryear. Most are presented as noble and prideful, deep-thinking and curious, stoic and disciplined, hardened and lethal. History might object to much of…

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Minds Beneath Us Really Nails the Disastrous Capitalist Hell That Awaits Us in the Future

I’m not an adventure game or visual novel head, if I’m honest. I’m not sure what it was about Minds Beneath Us that made me want to step out of my norms and give it a try. It looks good,…

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Deathbound’s Polypsychic Combat Lifts it Out of the Soulslike Quagmire

In 2024, being a soulslike must be a lot of pressure. Not only are you being compared with some of the most popular and highly regarded games ever made, including the expansion to one of the greatest games of the…

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Warframe: 1999 Makes the Turn of the Century a Nightmare (and a Love Story)

Since 2013, Warframe has been one of those games that you either play hardcore or don’t play at all. Many players bounce of it’s very obtuse and repetitive early game, but the ones that can stick with it are rewarded…

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Millennium Blades – A competitive board game about a competitive card game

As a child of the 90s, I have grown up with and experienced my fair share of trading card games, starting with the granddaddy of them all, Magic: The Gathering, starting in around 1994. I was there when the Pokemon…

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Untapped Thoughts on Thunder Junction

Untapped Thoughts is a feature that simply presents one nerd’s rambling thoughts on the latest set of cards and the enjoyment I got out of them. Do not expect a deep dive, cost analysis, or breakdown of the value you…

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Lonesome Village Brings a Sense of Home to a Quaint Setting

 In Lonesome Village community is key. This particular one, the Ubhora village was once thriving and happy, but is now empty,  victim of a cult devoted to an ancient god who kidnaps and locks up every villager in the ancient…

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SkateBIRD captures the arcade-y nature of Tony Hawk games

The resurgence of skating games brings me a lot of joy. When I first encountered Glass Bottom Games’ SkateBIRD at PAX East 2019, I was enamored by the jolly and goofy take on the skating game as someone who played…

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Turnip Boy Learns the Wrong Lessons From The Legend of Zelda

If I never played a game with a ghostly maze forest in it again, I would never miss it. There’s nothing really fun about them. Even the more benign lost woods varieties, that are just straight up mazes, really just…

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The Mellow Vibes of Skate City

For full disclosure, the PR representative of this title is a personal friend of the writer. Skating was more than doing tricks for me, it was a mode of transportation and a part of my identity. I have so many…

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My Mind is a Prison, My Cellmate is Loop Hero

I’ve probably spent more hours playing Loop Hero over the past few days than I have any game that I’ve played for leisure in a similar span of time. I’m seeing pixelated ratwolves in my nightmares. I hear one of…

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30XX Impressions – Jump’n and Shoot’n Still Feels Great In This Roguelike Sequal!

Battery Staple games were released 20XX back in 2014. This game took the historic gameplay of Capcom’s legendary Mega Man X franchise and infused it with the rogue-like genre’s essence. The result was an incredibly fun action platformer roguelike that…