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Master of Magic Preview – Ancient Inspiration
A whole year before Heroes of Might and Magic, one awesome game had set the gold standard for future turn-based fantasy strategies. Simtex’s Master of…
LEGO Brawls Review – Barebones Beatdown
LEGO Brawls was Apple Arcade exclusive since 2019, but now the game is available on consoles and PC. What was essentially a mobile freebie you…
Return to Monkey Island Review – Right in the Childhood
Perhaps you are familiar with so-called “Monke” memes? Diligent chroniclers from knowyourmeme.com state that “Return to Monke encompasses a series of memes closely associated with…
Sunday Gold Review – Maybe Bronze
How do you react to a splash screen proudly proclaiming that government funding assisted in the development of a video game? I feel an influx…
Disney Dreamlight Valley Preview – Shiny Happy People
One of the most popular games during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020/2021 was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo Switch exclusive casual life sim. The game…
The Last of Us Part I Review – Timeless Masterpiece
It’s a well-known fact that the best games in every generation of consoles come out near the end of their life span. The Last of…
Saints Row Review – Generic Crime Sandbox
It has been eight years since Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, a stand-alone expansion for Saints Row IV. The world had massively changed since…
Thymesia Review – Bloodborne Lite
PC gamers: we want Bloodborne! Mom: we have Bloodborne at home. Bloodborne at home: They say that in capitalism, markets always correct themselves. PC audience…
Regiments Review – European Escalation
The eighties are universally regarded as an era of global prosperity, but few are aware that the world had few close existential calls during that…
Two Point Campus Review – Easy Does It
Two Point Campus is a goofy management sim made by a British studio that gave us Two Point Hospital. Calling it “sim” might be overstretching…
As Dusk Falls Review – Dog Day Afternoon
Like many one-trick ponies, branching path narrative adventures had a predictable commercial trajectory. They peaked in popularity in the middle of the last decade, primarily…
Stray Review – Cat outta Bag
If you aren’t a cockroach, Mel Gibson, or a cat, your chances of living through the apocalypse and surviving in the follow-up dystopia are slim….
PowerWash Simulator Review – Tension Reliever
Most of the “simulator “games that pop up like fungus these days are simple cash grabs, developed in bulk in eastern Europe. They usually try…
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Review – Musou Extraordinaire
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is an alternate-timeline spin-off to Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019). It uses hack and slash combat mechanics similar to other…
Raft Review – Waterworld
It would be easy to dismiss Raft as a poor man’s Subnautica. Both games are first-person survival adventures at sea, but Raft mostly happens on…
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story Review – A Ceremony of Murders
We can say many things about Japanese storytelling, but one is for sure: from the Western perspective, it is different. And it is not only…
Starship Troopers: Terran Command Review – The Only Good Bug…
Paul Verhoeven’s big-screen adaptation of Starship Troopers, a famous Sci-Fi novel by Robert Heinlein, has left a deep footprint in the late XX century movie…
Card Shark Review – Full House
As the years go by, it becomes evident that the video game medium is maturing in the same way movies have evolved. Real innovation becomes…
Diablo Immortal Preview – Strong Feelings Guaranteed
Diablo Immortal is the game people love to hate. The sweet irony is that a solid majority of those haters will end up playing it….
V Rising Preview – Carpe Noctem
A year and a half after Valheim entered early access on Steam, it’s time for another survival game to conquer its charts by storm. V…