Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review: A notebook puzzler with spooky vibes
I think the marketing for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes might have done it a bit of a disservice. When you watch the trailer...
Thirsty Suitors mini-review: Fixing what you broke | Kaser Focus
Usually when I play a relatively short indie game, I find more often than not that its length is satisfactory (see: Jusant). Rarely do...
Starfield review: Let me play among the stars
Bethesda’s latest RPG, Starfield, is a game of immense size and grandeur, and I remember the precise instant I truly appreciated that. I was...
Dead Island 2 review: No one’s an island
Given how long it’s taken for Dead Island 2 to release, and how torturous the road to get to its launch has reportedly been,...
Octopath Traveler II review: A game of simple pleasures
RPGs — more specifically, those from Square Enix — are having a nostalgia moment. Dispensing with the graphical and gameplay trappings of modern games,...
Stray review: Kitty caper compels, keeps campaign cursory
When Annapurna first announced Stray in 2020, it caught everyone’s eye thanks to its simple elevator pitch: In a grimy cyberpunk city inhabited by...
Chinatown Detective Agency review: Carmen Sandiego meets cybernoir
A mystery story is one of the most wonderful, exhilarating experiences in any form of media: following clues, interrogating suspects, finding the facts, and...
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands review: Bunkers, badasses, Borderlands again
Booting up Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, I found myself wondering why it’s not called Bunkers & Badasses. That’s the name of the in-universe game that...
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One review: Not exactly elementary
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is an odd duck, with one foot in its point-and-click adventure game roots and the other in action-oriented open-world modernity....
Twin Mirror review — A journalist uncovers a small town’s crisis
In Twin Mirror, the latest narrative game from Dontnod Entertainment, you play as a journalist whose mission is to uncover the truth. When it...