If you’ve ever watched any of the dozens of reality cooking shows on TV, you know that life in the kitchen is fast-paced, complicated and stressful. Cook, Serve, Delicious! aims to recreate that feeling of running a restaurant, which is both difficult and strangely addictive. The sequel offers a significantly different experience by placing you … Continue reading
The year 2010 was definitely a good year for gaming. Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas (the best 3D Fallout game), and several others helped to define the year. It was also the year that Cuphead began development. Throughout the years, we’ve seen Cuphead in various stages and now, after seven years, … Continue reading
Procedurally generated games are definitely one of the more popular trends, and for good reason. Often featuring roguelite elements, they provide seemingly endless replayability and often offer additional challenges such as speed run modes, daily seed leaderboards and more. Songbringer attempts to bring procedural generation to the classic gameplay style of The Legend of Zelda. … Continue reading
The first Escapists was a pleasant surprise. It took the usually dark and gritty world of prison life and made it bright and lighthearted. No gangs, no racism, no riots; just good, clean prison escape. The Escapists 2 extends that same tone while making quality of life improvements for an overall improved experience. Unfortunately, many … Continue reading
The original Rock of Ages from Ace Team and Atlus was lovable, if not a great game. Released in 2011, it was part Super Monkey Ball, part tower-defense, pitting two players against each other to put up a defense against a giant player controlled boulder. It’s big appeal was it’s Monty Python-like humor, pitting 2D … Continue reading
Defender has inspired a number of games over the years. Resogun from Housemarque and Astro Tripper from Pom Pom Games are more recent examples and both worked incredibly well to emulate that style of gameplay. Graceful Explosion Machine takes a lot of the base mechanics of Defender, adds a nice coat of paint, and creates … Continue reading
The original Nidhogg was a game that was, let’s say “frustrating.” It was a fun, local multiplayer-centric combat game that focused on duels and featured 2D art. It was also one of those mutliplayer games that could easily break up friendships with its cruel difficulty curve. It’s a masterpiece of local multiplayer. So, when Nidhogg … Continue reading
Looking at West of Loathing, the game probably doesn’t look like much. Let’s be honest here: the entire game is comprised of black and white, stick figure graphics. While it’s true the game’s aesthetic is simple, diving into West of Loathing reveals fun gameplay and a cleverly written, and often hilarious, tale of the Wild … Continue reading
Let’s say you are playing a game where you have to murder tons of people in various grisly ways. After you’ve stabbed your fifteenth henchman in the head, you finally get to leave, fully unthinking of the colossal mess you’ve left behind. But who cares how much brain matter is left in the carpet or … Continue reading
I’m a sucker for striking visuals in indie games so naturally I was instantly drawn to Pinstripe. The brain child of a one-man development team, Thomas Brush, it’s a game that treads amongst serious and morose topics, including death, loss and the evil within. You control Ted, a former priest who finds himself in Hell, … Continue reading
I’ll be upfront with something: I usually don’t care for rogue-like games. The idea of battling over and over again only to eventually end up dying and starting over just doesn’t appeal to me. However, every now and then a game comes along that offers a slightly different take on rogue-likes that ends up being … Continue reading
About one year ago I made a list of the top Marvel movies up to that point. Topping that list was the blockbuster surprise hit Guardians of the Galaxy, which features great comedy, action and characters. With the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie just over a week away, it makes sense that the Telltale … Continue reading
In the pantheon of the classic computer RPG’s, there are a ton of recognizable names. Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Wasteland. These games were considered some of the best games of their time. Then, there was Planescape Torment, a game that I certainly don’t remember people talking much about at the time. Almost 20 years later, … Continue reading
Let me take you back to New York, 1986. You are a detective under investigation after an incident at a Senator’s house ends up with one dead perp and a bunch of missing diamonds. Demoted to a simple beat cop, you are left to prove your innocence while also juggling a job of writing tickets, … Continue reading
Hotline Miami 2 was a disappointment to say the least. The larger levels, where you could not see anything coming at you, were frustrating and the emphasis on gun combat was not what you would have wanted from a sequel to Hotline Miami. So, we’re stuck with this dilemma where Hotline Miami is really great, … Continue reading
