Video Games

Highschool is a hard time for any teenager. Pineapple: A Bittersweet Revenge takes a Reddit story about a highschooler and brings it to life. This story is one of revenge, of getting back at your bully, and about standing up for yourself —…

Cozy games, particularly ones with crafting aspects, are popping up more and more. This is great for me, personally, because these types of games are some of my favorite. Pieced Together is a cozy, scrapbooking puzzle game.  You play as…

Each day Lorena heads to work, chats to the locals, and heads home. Before long though, she finds out that young women have been disappearing from the area. In fact the position she fills at the store is only as a result of her predecessor…

Echo of the Waves is a stunning, puzzle-based adventure game set in a watercolor world. Playing as Zephyr, a cartographer-musician who is looking to discover this new place, you’ve got a lot of exploring to do and mysteries to solve.  Echo…

I've now clocked over 200 hours in recent Steam Sensation Rusty's Retirement. I should have written up my thoughts long ago, but, as it turns out, I wasn't at my computer for most of those hours; in fact, I'm playing it right now. Rusty's…

Willow Guard feels like it combines a bunch of different elements; an action RPG with deck building and a strong narrative drive, that takes you through a world where animals are the dominant, intelligent creatures and must survive against…

Built like a classic point and click adventure game, but with a new story, Wildwood Down is a funny, coming of age style story game about a bunch of teenagers on Spring Break! Making their way to Wildwood New Jersey, you play as Daniel, a…

Puzzles were equally frustrating as well, but not due to them being difficult as such. It’s often fairly obvious that combining something acidic with a padlock will allow you to open a door. The annoyance comes from how difficult it is to…

Miniatures is an artistic, thoughtful anthology of four games that touch on childhood experiences with deeper, darker undertones. I've played through the two-part demo of Miniatures a couple of times now, each time spending maybe 20-25…

Wizdom Academy is a story-driven school-building game, where you need to take on a bunch of management roles to ensure your newly established wizarding school is successful, and that your students go on to live amazing lives outside of the…

If you are not familiar with Sokpop, they are a collective of game developers who create bite-sized, short experiences in small amounts of time. Recently, however, they started working on Grunn, which is a longer form game! This is quite…

I love ducks. I love salami. Clearly, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has somehow hit a weird cross section of things that I am interested in. This narrative-driven detective game has you becoming the Duck Detective, who has run out of…

Sorry, We're Closed takes the corridor crawling, limited ammo and puzzles of 90s survival horror and gives it a grungy, punk twist. There are a lot of people out there with very fond memories of the Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Parasite…

This wordplay ties into pretty much every element of Cryptmaster. Combat is driven by it and takes place in real time, with your heroes having cooldowns after each word. Type “hit”, and your warrior will strike a blow, whilst “sing” will…

As I get older, I find that I am rarely surprised by new games — I’m not saying that everything is a rehash of something that came before, but I guess I feel that we’re running out of themes, mechanics and settings and that leads to…

Dissecting Love is a narrative driven game that takes you through the relationship of two queer individuals, who are navigating their own issues while literally having an autopsy. It’s a strange look into a story, with so many little…

Your team members are not even remotely hardy, dying very quickly if a firefight opens up. In fact, if you’re spotted and there’s even a hint of open combat, you may as well load your last save as you’ll probably be swamped and killed…

Roguelike shooters aren't the rarest combination these days, but Wild Bastards makes up for that with a great setting, quick showdowns and a really cool combat meta, all set in an intergalactic Wild-West drentched in neon. Wild Bastards is…

There is a lot lurking underwater, including a bunch of little baby crabs and a giant crab king if you are playing the game Crab God. This atmospheric, underwater strategy game has you trying to manage your gang of baby crabs to create an…

Project 13 is another entry in the rapidly-growing 3D spot the difference genre. If you consume much gaming content on YouTube, you’ve probably seen The Exit 8 crop up here and there. If you aren’t familiar, it’s a game in which you walk…