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REM Racers – Race your way to victory
Strap in and get behind the wheel for a frantic race to the finish line set in Corvus Belli’s infinity universe. There are no banana skins in sight or Koopa shells to swerve in this high tech raucous racer. Plasma canons at the ready and…
Tales from Candleforth – Wycan
The narrative is told in an interesting way, with lots of visual interpretation and foreshadowing, even though this game only clocks in at two hours or so. It’s helped considerably by the hand drawn art style that gives everything an almost…
Explore your old home in Pine Hearts
Pine Hearts is an adorable adventure game where you play as Tyke, a young adult looking to re-discover some of his memories by visiting their quiet hometown in the mountains. It all starts after you’ve gotten off your train, with quests…
Pineapple: A Bittersweet Revenge – Surving Highschool
Highschool is a hard time for any teenager. Pineapple: A Bittersweet Revenge takes a Reddit story about a highschooler and brings it to life. This story is one of revenge, of getting back at your bully, and about standing up for yourself —…
Pieced Together – scrapbooking about your childhood.
Cozy games, particularly ones with crafting aspects, are popping up more and more. This is great for me, personally, because these types of games are some of my favorite. Pieced Together is a cozy, scrapbooking puzzle game. You play as…
Terminal 81 – End of the line
Each day Lorena heads to work, chats to the locals, and heads home. Before long though, she finds out that young women have been disappearing from the area. In fact the position she fills at the store is only as a result of her predecessor…
Echo of the Waves – a watercolor adventure
Echo of the Waves is a stunning, puzzle-based adventure game set in a watercolor world. Playing as Zephyr, a cartographer-musician who is looking to discover this new place, you’ve got a lot of exploring to do and mysteries to solve. Echo…
Rusty’s Retirement is a relaxing cautionary tale that sits at the bottom of your screen
I've now clocked over 200 hours in recent Steam Sensation Rusty's Retirement. I should have written up my thoughts long ago, but, as it turns out, I wasn't at my computer for most of those hours; in fact, I'm playing it right now. Rusty's…
Willow Guard – A story filled RPG
Willow Guard feels like it combines a bunch of different elements; an action RPG with deck building and a strong narrative drive, that takes you through a world where animals are the dominant, intelligent creatures and must survive against…
Wildwood Down takes you on Spring Break
Built like a classic point and click adventure game, but with a new story, Wildwood Down is a funny, coming of age style story game about a bunch of teenagers on Spring Break! Making their way to Wildwood New Jersey, you play as Daniel, a…
Desolatium – Empty
Puzzles were equally frustrating as well, but not due to them being difficult as such. It’s often fairly obvious that combining something acidic with a padlock will allow you to open a door. The annoyance comes from how difficult it is to…
Miniatures is four thoughtful experiences played out through the eyes of children
Miniatures is an artistic, thoughtful anthology of four games that touch on childhood experiences with deeper, darker undertones. I've played through the two-part demo of Miniatures a couple of times now, each time spending maybe 20-25…
Manage your own school in Wizdom Academy
Wizdom Academy is a story-driven school-building game, where you need to take on a bunch of management roles to ensure your newly established wizarding school is successful, and that your students go on to live amazing lives outside of the…
Distilled is a thematic drafting and set collection game that will leave you tipsy!
There’s no doubt that we live in a Golden Age for thematic board games. Long gone are the days of pasted-on themes about trading in outer space or Ancient Greece, and instead we have games like Distilled, which take the specific passions of…
Everything feels a little off in Grunn
If you are not familiar with Sokpop, they are a collective of game developers who create bite-sized, short experiences in small amounts of time. Recently, however, they started working on Grunn, which is a longer form game! This is quite…
Watchmen of Destiny challenges you to recruit a band of heroes at all cost
Form a squad of adorable animals through bidding and clever item usage, all in efforts to win the title of the Watchmen of Destiny. Watchmen of Destiny is a set-collecting tabletop game that's all about finding the right heroes, with the…
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami – Silly and Challenging
I love ducks. I love salami. Clearly, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has somehow hit a weird cross section of things that I am interested in. This narrative-driven detective game has you becoming the Duck Detective, who has run out of…
Sorry We’re Closed evolves Survival Horror with a third eye’s view
Sorry, We're Closed takes the corridor crawling, limited ammo and puzzles of 90s survival horror and gives it a grungy, punk twist. There are a lot of people out there with very fond memories of the Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Parasite…
Cryptmaster – Spell slingers
This wordplay ties into pretty much every element of Cryptmaster. Combat is driven by it and takes place in real time, with your heroes having cooldowns after each word. Type “hit”, and your warrior will strike a blow, whilst “sing” will…
Ransom Notes – Fridge Magnet Fun
Ransom Notes is an adult party game where players are tasked with grabbing random fridge magnets and creating sentences that may or may not make sense. This is the type of party game that works well with groups of people that have the same…