Category Archives: Games

UFO 50 Is A Throwback Without Cheap Nostalgia

It might seem odd to suggest that a game filled to the brim with tough-as-nails twitch action games, thinky arcade puzzlers, and even a full-blown narrative RPG is not nostalgic, but UFO 50, a compilation of 50 retro-inspired games of varying sizes, is full of surprises. It has its influences, of course. Magical Garden pulls […]

2024’s Best Games Let Me Figure It Out

This year, I decided I’d finally play 2022’s Case of the Golden Idol, a mystery game that thrusts you onto the scene of a murder moments after it’s happened. You pan through several screens, absorb every detail you possibly can, gather clues in the form of nouns and verbs, and make logic-based deductions by filling […]

Secret Level Review – Hits And Misses

Video game adaptations are rapidly becoming Hollywood’s next big Marvel move, with multiple, decent adaptations releasing every year now (we’re not going to talk about Borderlands). Director Tim Miller (Deadpool; Love, Death & Robots), however, puts this trend to the test in a very interesting way: Instead of using source material from one property, why […]