Includes RPS, Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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…
The story needs an edit, but FixFox's world is just a relentlessly lovely place to live and noodle around. This non-violent fixventure is very restful.
A deep and riveting turn-based tactics game, Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters embraces the mayhem to create a thrilling strategy epic.
Citizen Sleeper is a swish sci-fi RPG full of decent folk and just the right amount of scum. Read the full review for more.
A comforting and elegant village builder, Dorfromantik has grown to become a puzzle game for the ages.
Rogue Legacy 2 is a worthy heir that expands on the original game's roguelikeness with a multitude of incentives that ensure things never get stale.
The Iron Oath is a tactical RPG with really interesting classes and fun missions. With some tweaks and fleshing out, this could really stand out after.
Dune: Spice Wars is a compact, complex 4X, but an inconsistent midgame and lack of narrative decision making hold it back from maximum spiciness.
Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between is a lovely surreal walk, but attached to it are a lot of weird and boring conversations that kind of ruin it.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a stylish cyberpunk detective game, but it does feel a bit like doing homework sometimes.
A Star Wars compilation that's undeniably fun, but wildly inconsistent and with far too much padding from collectibles.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is that neurotic friend of a friend who worries they need to be manic-funny all the time, when really you'd rather they tone it down.
Arkane founder’s first indie outing is a chaotic soup of colliding systems, and that soup tastes absolutely delicious.
The Fertile Crescent somehow manages to riff nostalgically on Age Of Empires, while completely rewriting its ground rules to become something new and exciting.
Abermore is a stealth RPG that oozes potential, but a bevy of game-breaking bugs renders it virtually inaccessible.
A recursive puzzler that constantly surprises and delights, Patrick's Parabox is a source of infinite joy.