I cannot state enough how much I love a good Metroidvania-style game. Both Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are among my all-time favorite side-scrolling classics. With that in min...
Super squeamish when it comes to horror, I avoid them in every media format at all costs or I don’t sleep well but something about the name Layers of Fear, along with the artistry drew me like a...
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is an excellent RPG with a South Park skin. If you love the crass fourth graders and their adventures as much as I do, then chances are you’re going to have a...
On paper, Penny-Punching Princess sounds like a quirky, winningly good time. It’s a top-down pixel-styled Action RPG where the core mechanic revolves around the titular princess bribing the enem...
I’ve never seen or read Attack on Titan, nor did I play the first game. But I always loved the gist of the story – massive people-eating giants attack humanity, and so humanity crafts three enor...
Nintendo has an ability that few developers do: they manufacture joy in videogame form. HAL Laboratory’s Kirby: Star Allies is yet another shining example of this. It’s been seven years si...
Owlboy came out originally in 2016 to absolutely rave reviews. Like many games, it’s now being released on the Nintendo Switch, where it feels right at home and still just as superb. Owlboy foll...
Aegis Defenders seeks to bring back the Tower Defense to prominence, or at least less eye-rolling, and frankly – it manages that feat. As Bart (dutiful tinkering grandfather) and Clu (adventurin...
Mercenary Kings looks like it has it all: excellent pixel art style, throwback Metal Slug gameplay, RPG crafting, tons of missions and characters, local and online co-op… but why don’t I l...