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Last reviewed: 007 First Light · 4 days ago
I can't get Fish Sticks out of my head. Not the food, but the stray cat with a squished face and stubby legs that I wrangled into my shack in Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s new roguelite strategy game, Mewgenics. The shop, the pub, the dentist; no matter where I go, I…
I was, like so many of my 1990s-born peers, a huge Sims girlie. I spent hundreds of hours as a teen and young adult making people I knew, characters from shows I was obsessing over, or original characters I wanted to experiment with, and diligently following their life paths and…
One of the classic draws to games as a medium is having a go at fictional jobs like wizard, space salvager, or landlord. This week I've been playing Times & Galaxy, a kinda silly but absorbing visual novel game about a sci fi concept called "journalism". It's good!
It's an action/RPG/tower defence hybrid of admirable intent, but beyond occasional flashes of brilliance, Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess is an average time.
A collection of three uneven Itch.io adventure games that's worth a look if you like Space Quest.
Arranger is funny, surprising, and builds a simple movement puzzle concept into complex, layered head-scratchers. It's a very charismatic puzzle game that won't outstay its welcome.
Conscript's grimy, disturbing setting and grueling combat are poignant, and a sturdy and well-crafted survival horror skeleton keeps things compelling.
Cosy fantasy meets monster hack 'n slashing in Dungeons of Hinterberg, an action RPG that will spirit you away to the majestic Austrian alps.
A smart, sporadically generic but on-the-whole exhilarating mixture of ideas from God Of War and Soulslikes.
Flock flexes your curiosity to chase down strange and wonderful little animals. It can be a little repetitive, but it's full of freedom and playfulness and is a treat after a long day being a grown up.
An idiosyncratic soul and great creature design keeps Once Human interesting amidst rote and uninteresting survival and shooting.
A carefree shadow-hopping puzzler whose colour and charm, combined with frogs, makes for a ribbiting time.
Two-thirds exhilarating and ingenious, one third asinine and frustrating, Anger Foot feels played out by the time you've finished the first few stages. Through great level design, constant novelty, and mostly solid fundamentals, it remains intoxicating for another sixty of them.
Sleek and stylish art direction won't make up for shallow combat and a tiring gacha treadmill.
Building on Sekiro's parry system in a layered and fascinating metroidvania world, Nine Sols is a punishing but encouraging 2D soulslike spilling over with personality and creativity.
A fussy and demanding, but utterly singular and impossibly absorbing planning and logistical sim that other city builders can barely hope to match.
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree is a knotty, dense expansion that's home to some of the best moments in Elden Ring, but also some of its most frustrating.