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Deliver Us Mars Review – Nah, We’re Good
My father had a friend who worked for an old-school book publishing agency specialized in esothery and all sorts of new age faux-scientific hogwash. As…
Dead Space Review – Very Much Alive
Dead Space (2008) was the game that briefly made me see Electronic Arts in a different light. The company that acquired then killed some of…
Colossal Cave Review – Subterranean Obsolescence
The original Colossal Cave Adventure is one of the oldest examples of digital interactive fiction. In 1976, most civilians used the term “electronic brain” while…
Forspoken Review – Meghan Markle in Narnia
The best thing I can say about Forspoken is that it isn’t nearly as bad as I thought it will be. After trying that half-assed…
One Piece Odyssey Review – Fan Service
If you exist in a pre-millennial cultural plane, you might not know about the most successful manga of all time. The numbers that One Piece…
Children of Silentown Review – Forbidden Forest
A tiny village in the middle of a cursed forest, full of people abiding by specific rules to ward off the supernatural threat and stay…
World War 3 Review – No Nukes, Lots of Bullets
World War 3 is a free2play multiplayer FPS that sits somewhere between the callous casualness of Call of Duty and the hard-core ruggedness of Rising…
High on Life Review – Low on Everything Else
I must admit that I never watched Rick and Morty. A couple of cringey hipsters from my old job enthusiastically talked about it all the…
IXION Review – Frostpunk in Space
A potential solution to all Earth’s problems could be just giving up on it and colonizing another world. We’ll need a big colony ship, a…
Warhammer 40K: Darktide Review – I Serve the Soviet Imperium
Almost exclusively, Warhammer 40K games are about indulging the Space Marine power fantasy, slicing and boltering the xenos, mutants, and heretics by the bushel. Playing…
The Callisto Protocol Review – The Jovian Bore
You probably heard about recent developments in the field of AI-assisted image generation and processing. User inputs textual description, Skynet churns out incredible images, and…
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Review – Gas, Guns and Gulags
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 landed in parallel with season One content for Modern Warfare II, instantly making classic multiplayer modes less attractive. Like its…
Goat Simulator 3 Review – Bleaterminator
Goat Simulator was released nine years ago and the world became neither better nor worse because of it. The game was hilarious, inexpensive, and offered…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review – NeverEnding Story
This is the nineteenth installment in Call of Duty main series. I thought hard about the great opening I would begin this review with, and…
God of War Ragnarok Review – Filling the Big Shoes
How do you follow up on the almost-perfect game? God of War (2018) is a timeless masterpiece that won multiple GOTY awards; It moved mountains,…
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord Review – What is Best in Life?
While the Mongol general from Conan the Barbarian (1982) strongly feels that crushing your enemies tops having a fleet horse and wind in your hair,…
Victoria 3 Review – The Missing Link
From Crusader Kings to Stellaris, Paradox Interactive masterfully translated the long ages between (factual) early middle ages and (fictional) space-faring future into epic strategy games….
Vampire Survivors Review – Irresistible Banality
Of course, you know by now about Vampire Survivors. Everyone does, and they are pretty vocal about it. Even if you ignored relentless Twitch streaming…
Scorn Review – The Flesh is Weak
Scorn is a horror puzzle adventure inspired by the disturbingly glorious work of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. I had to google that second guy…
Marauders Preview – Exoplanetary Tarkov
Well-established hard-core extraction shooters like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown are riddled with cheaters. It would be a severe understatement to say that they…