Review

Goodbye Trauma-san, Good Morning to You! Much like the Phoenixx-published NeverAwake, Parry Nightmare’s action also takes places in a world of surrealistic dreams. When Honno, the game’s protagonist falls asleep, her nighttime hours are teeming ...

Not quite legendary, but nine years on, FuRyu’s role-playing legacy endures. In 2020, FuRyu’s The Alliance Alive made a reappearance, bringing a graphically improved port to most contemporary platforms. Now, the Shibuya-based publisher is reaching ...

Fusing grid-based movement with card battling, Dungeon Drafters demonstrates a lot of ambition. Although the Switch port improves upon the original PC release, the nonsensical writing and balancing issues haven’t been remedied. 2005’s Metal Gear Acid was one of ...

Vanillaware retains its long-running reign, with the studio delivering another enchanting experience. Osaka-based Vanillaware confidently pushes genres in innovative directions. 2007’s GrimGrimoire adapted the mechanics of real-time strategy games – placing them on side-scrolling, two-dimensional ...

Boasting skilled curation, Digital Eclipse delivers a mixed-medium digital museum dedicated to the life of Jeff Minter. With each image, video interview, and playable game, it builds a strong argument that the developer commonly known ...

“I’m Gonna Make You Mine”, 8BitSkull boasts. While there are people who dig shallow holes in the ground for fun, hobby tunneling can become an obsession. In California’s Mojave Desert, a man known as William ...

Spend the evening playing with yourselves. From being able to slow the world around you in Max Payne, controling the pace of combat in SUPERHOT, to slowing, stopping, or even reversing the clock in Timeshift, ...

I could buy myself flowers- or at least build myself a garden. Given the number of agrarian-focused games on the market, there’s a good chance that you’re already a veteran digital horticulturist. Games like Story ...

Isometric-based strategy that’s fast, accessible, and lets you let loose with Loid Forger. Leaving your home to live in another country is poised to produce culture shock. Of course, moving can be especially distressing when ...

The sixth mainline entry gets the balance right. It’s been fourteen years since the last mainline entry in Shiren the Wanderer series. During that torturous duration, there have been a multitude of games that have ...