Category: Reviews
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TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight: Nauseatingly Repetitive – PC Review
Genshin Impact is one of my favourite games. It’s become a part of my daily routine, jumping in to complete the various tasks before hopping out and getting on with my day. When I saw TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight at the Steam Game Festival, I had assumed it was a game in the same vein…
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Say No! More: Absolutely Worth Saying Yes To – PC Review
I’ve always found RPGs to be a superior form of escapism because they can easily reach beyond the typical power fantasy. Sure, Geralt of Rivia is a monster butchering badass, but he exists within a world of wonder, mystery, and personality. Undertale tests your patience and skill but does so by masterfully weaving those elements…
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Rain on Your Parade: A Fun, Lighthearted Wet Experience – PC Review
I live in Australia, and naturally, it doesn’t rain an awful lot throughout the year. Even when it does, I find myself cursing the sky and being extremely counter-productive even if I wasn’t planning outdoor activities that day. Rain on Your Parade puts you in control of a Jerk Cloud who rains on people for…
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Quantum League: A Truly Unique First-Person Shooter – PC Review
One cold afternoon, tucked away inside my non-insulated flat, I found myself playing Immortals Fenyx Rising. Unfortunately, I am not terribly fond of Immortals Fenyx Rising and was therefore not enjoying myself. It reeks of unoriginality and borrowed concepts and is just not fun to play. So, as I glided from statue to statue, I…
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Deiland: Pocket Planet Edition: Sweet & Simple – Switch Review
After playing the recently released Cozy Grove, and loving it, jumping into a farming sim seemed fitting. I was enjoying the high that relaxed video games can bring. There’s something so satisfying about getting comfy on your couch and knowing for the next hour or so, you needn’t worry about a thing. Deiland: Pocket Planet…
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Cozy Grove: A Warm And Cosy Nightcap – Switch Review
When I was young, I got Animal Crossing: Wild World for my birthday. Every Saturday night, I would hide beneath the covers and pop into The Roost to catch a K.K Rider show. To this day, I sometimes put Go K.K Rider! on just to relish in the nostalgia. Unfortunately, as I have gotten older,…
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Forgotten Fields: Magic Realism At Its Finest – PC Review
A few months back, I left my family home to move in with my girlfriend. University was over, the pandemic was leaving a trail of misery in its wake, and I was spiralling into depression faster than it took CD Projekt Red to become the next Bioware. It made sense to uproot my life and…
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Shelter 3: Prepare to Cry – PC Review
Shelter 3 takes the series in a new direction, as the developer Might and Delight promised. Still, its deliberate action though impactful also exacerbates long-standing issues in the series and introduces new ones. Like its predecessors, Shelter 3 is a survival walking simulator where players must guide an animal and often their babies through a…
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GolfTopia: A Good Game With Great Potential – PC Review
Twenty years ago, sim-building games were all the rage. Between Theme Hospital, SimCity, and everything else Sid Meier touched, the genre was everywhere. Sid Meier’s SimGolf released to rave reviews in 2002. It allowed players to create and manage a golf course, and cater to the whims of their high-paying clientele. While the Tiger Woods Golf…
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//TODO: Today: A Perfect Slice Of Life – PC Review
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a novelist. Throughout my youth I wrote a series of frankly terrible pieces of fiction; there were short stories that perfectly resembled the work of an untalented child, and novels so grotesquely large that they were riddled with continuity errors. But as I got…
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Barney’s Dream Cruise: Point, Click And Laugh – PC Review
The point-and-click adventure genre is one I find myself holding mixed feelings for. While I have fond memories as a kid playing Putt-Putt and Myst, there are games like Monkey Island and Machinarium that I found to be a bore and fail to hold my interest. For every Grim Fandango that I strived to enjoy…
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What The Dub?!: Endless Laughter – PS4 Review
I love playing party games, and for a period, my Saturday nights mostly consisted of playing Jackbox Party Packs with friends. These types of party games utilise your phone as a controller by going to a specific web page and entering a room code. This is exactly how What The Dub?! is designed, too. In…