When you want to be able to read our thorough breakdown on a game because you just can’t stand our voices, this is the place to go! Rich (and sometimes the other guys) get into the meat of a game and give you a recommendation on whether or not it’s worth purchasing.
Stray could’ve coasted and likely succeeded on gimmick alone. A game where you play as a stray cat was enough to get me and many others in the door on day one, but Stray is firing on all cylinders from the moment it starts. It would’ve been easy to phone it in on this one, and while I usually start a review by posing whether or not a game delivers on its premise, I’ll let you know ahead of time that Stray exceeds expectations at every turn.
Author: Rich Meister
This thing started as a review be the more I typed, the harder it got to dance around the things that make Daniel Mullins’ latest card-based adventure so cool. Sure the card mechanics play a big part; I’m a sucker for a good card game, but more than that, it’s the weird story being told and the mysterious way it unfolds that make it this year’s must-play game.
Author: Rich Meister
Skateboarding games are pretty great. As a kid growing up on Long Island, skate culture was rather prominent, and skating up through my high school years was almost as important as gaming. Outside of skateboarding (an activity that my knees no longer permit), The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series largely shaped my taste in music and pro skateboarders to admire.
Luckily those games are also fucking amazing and just as fantastic today. It is today’s unfortunate reality that skateboarding games are few and far between. For that reason, I gobble up pretty much any skating videogame that comes my way in the case of games like the Pro Skater remasters; that’s great. When it comes to games like SkateBIRD, you manage to get some fun over a package that’s more than a bit rough around the edges.
Author: Rich Meister
Death’s Door is a delightful melting pot of things that I love. It combines the formula of classic top-down Zelda-inspired dungeon’s and puzzles, a charming but bleak lore-drenched world, and combat that comes about as close to Hyperlight Drifter as any other game I’ve played. It’s an impressive resume and one that mostly delivers.
Author: Rich Meister
Platforming is such a versatile game genre; it can be simple, complex, rage-inducing, and even downright cathartic, depending on how it’s implemented. Omno, the new game from Studio Inkyfox, lands on the relaxing cathartic end of the spectrum and evokes the charm of games like Journey with its lush and beautiful scenery.
