Remember the whole dust-up about whether Balatro is gambling? Perhaps inspired by that situation, roguelike CloverPit also insists it’s not gambling. In the most basic sense it’s not–
Hello there, fans of city-builders and/or idyllic 19th-century Mediterranean getaways! You two very specific groups of people need to know that I spent the entire weekend playing Town To
Q-UP (a game whose title I literally just got while typing this sentence, humiliatingly) is the latest from the folks behind numbers-go-up game Universal Paperclips. It’s a sendup of
For all its melodramatic brilliance, the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series has long carried a recurring blemish—substories and mini-games that veer from campy charm into outright cringe, usually involving
Hollow Knight: Silksong is undoubtedly a labor of love, one full of strong, opinionated choices and intentional friction. Unfortunately, some of those choices are ambiently annoying to me personally, tiny little irritants in an otherwise unspeakably beautiful and once–in-a-generation platformer.
Gaming, at its core, is just a series of puzzles: some meditative, some maddening. I'm Not A Robot splits the difference, turning the mundane act of proving your
Remember the mimics from Prey, those creepy masses of tentacles that could disguise themselves as shoes and coffee cups so they could get the drop on you? Henry Halfhead is
