Month: August 2023
‘Molecano’ Review – I Really Dig This Hot Word Game
What do you mean “you used up all of your allowable puns in that headline”? Developer Thomas Young gets to make two whole games full of dad jokes and I only get those two words? Sigh, fine. Let’s talk about that developer’s latest game, Molecano (Free), and let’s do it while leaving the groan-worthy word…
Read More‘Remnant 2’ Steam Deck Review – Verified by Valve but Still Needs Some Work
When Remnant 2 from Gunfire Games was announced, a friend of mine kept trying to get me to play the first game. I ended up liking Remnant: From the Ashes quite a bit when I finally played it on Nintendo Switch for review. Read my review of the port here. Having experienced the first game…
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‘Stone Story RPG’ Review – ASCII No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies
Stone Story RPG (Free) is a very carefully crafted game. Every bit of it feels deft and deliberate, both good and bad. It catches the eye immediately with its distinctive ASCII art, particularly when it starts moving. The mysterious nature of the game evokes things like A Dark Room, and that’s a good place to…
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‘Peglin’ Mobile Early Access Review – Nearly Perfect on iOS
Just like when Jared wrote about it for Game of the Week, I was in two minds about reviewing Red Nexus Games’ pachinko roguelike Peglin (Free). On PC, Peglin is available as an early access game, which means it will keep getting new content or fixes as it heads to its full release. On PC,…
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‘Gravitas!’ Review – This Puzzler Takes Its ‘Meteos’ Inspiration Seriously
We’re getting dangerously close to being two decades removed from the launch of the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable. It was an exciting time. Would Sony do to Nintendo in handhelds what it had done in home consoles? What kind of wild games would arise from the beefy specs of the PSP and the…
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‘Ragnagard ACA NEOGEO’ Review – If Only Fenrir Had Swallowed This Game
One of the reasons why the NEOGEO hardware was able to last as long as it did is because SNK was really good at playing to its strengths. Thanks to the obsession with polygons in the mid-to-late 1990s, there wasn’t a whole lot of work being done in the 2D realm for a while, which…
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‘The Queen’s Gambit Chess’ Netflix Review – They Who Chase Two Rabbits Shall Catch Neither
Before I go into my review of The Queen’s Gambit Chess (Free) from Netflix and Ripstone, I want to be upfront about where I am coming from. First, I haven’t seen even a single episode of the show. I know, I know. I’ve heard it’s really good, but I don’t have a lot of free…
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‘Roto Force’ Mobile Review – Rotating Run ‘n Gun Perfection
Roto Force (Free) from developer Anton Klinger aka Accidentally Awesome Games and PID Games is a game I’ve had installed since it launched, but I didn’t actually play it until about a week later. I was impressed with it right from the get go, but I ended up forgetting about it until a friend of…
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