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Does Alan Wake Remastered count? Maybe not. If it does, it's that. >So... 2021 huh. Let's leave it at that for a yearly recap. We all know it sucked. Will next year be better... I'm not willing to tempt fate. At least, as ever,…

Transient is one of those games that, on paper, that I should love. It’s an old-style adventure game; along the lines of Myst. You explore, poke around areas, and solve puzzles. It’s a synthesis of Lovecraft and Cyberpunk, both narratively…

To preface: I have very limited experience with Sherlock Holmes. I have seen BBC's modern series, and thought it was kind of terrible. Vague memories of Jeremy Brett's take on Holmes linger in my mind, as a whip smart, vaguely fading…

Backbone. Backbone, backbone, backbone. Alright. Basics first: this is, as described, a modern take on point and click games. It features detailed, sharply written dialogue and vividly drawn characters. It is rendered in a sort of 2D Pixel…

Once upon a time, I watched David Lynch’s 3-hour long nightmare Inland Empire while I was heavily sick, and actively hallucinating from an intense fever. While watching that movie, the faces appeared to shift away from the actual heads, and…

I’m going to get this out of the way — this hand pencilled, enigmatic folk horror? It can be an absolute chore to play, and the switch port is in all honesty, a bit rubbish. But Mundaun is an absolute must play.  It can grate — any combat…

Here we have a jazzy rendition of the beginning of the universe: a man, a famous saxophonist, shooting his lover, a singer,  after an affair is revealed, and the lovesick detective stuck in the middle. Genesis Noir. That title kind of…

Spending an hour with a farmer: a man filled with the deepest sorrows, a man whose only friends are animals and mobsters. To be put in those shoes, to hear about his chestnut tree, his All-American Pigs, the gentle twang of his voice as he…

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town has a simple set up - you leave the hustling, bustling chaos of the city and inherit your old grandpa’s mysteriously untitled farm. Something I love about these games is how contrived they can be in…

I’ve often wondered about the original Pathologic game and even gone so far as to try and play it. I didn’t get far, it is a cruel, cruel thing. But I adored it from a distance, this weird strange game. I saw Pathologic 2’s announcement of…