Reviews

Linn: Path of Orchards is the kind of puzzle game that treads the delicate balance between challenging and calming. Its soothing atmosphere is established immediately by both the gentle music …
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Gerrrms is a multiplayer brawler for the Nintendo Switch developed and published by Bugbomb. It’s cute and easy to learn, but it’s just a drop in the ocean of so …
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Games about performing tedious jobs range from farming to minimum wage positions, to border patrol, but none of these are scarier than working in a grocery store. Need a Packet …
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Attack of the Clones

KEMCO steadily publishes RPGs of varying quality, but Alphadia Genesis is undoubtedly one of the better ones I’ve played. Exe Create packs a favorable …
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Faeria is a bit of a mélange of turn-based plus card play plus board game stuffs, all with nice artwork and a general feel that’s a bit reminiscent of Magic: The Gathering and Heroscape. It feels like a game you can play for the next few years and not get weary of it. 
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Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix is an adventure, puzzle game from Cateia Games. You play as Mina who heads back to her grandmother’s house in search of inner …
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Goosebumps is nothing short of an iconic franchise, having managed to take a genre intended for mature audiences and aim it towards children. R. L. Stine’s spooky books are the …
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Banner of the Maid is a highly unique entry in the shoulder-to-shoulder “thin red line” of turn-based JRPGs. Its alternate take on the French Revolution provides a wonderful backdrop for some of the best strategic gameplay I’ve experienced since Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
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I suppose if you’re going to turn a medieval French castle into a hotel, you have to expect some supernatural shenanigans. You expect priceless necklaces to go missing. You expect guests to fall into comas. You expect ghosts to haunt the wine cellar. What you don’t expect is for all of this to be so…dull.
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Country Tales could be a construction and management simulation to win over those who might otherwise overlook the genre. With the option for a relaxed difficulty, that dreaded timer isn’t …
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Distraint 2 is a game that does not pull its punches, dropping you immediately into its dark themes and the intensity of the emotions that come with them. It opens …
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We Should Talk is a simulation communication adventure game. This type of gameplay is a first for me, so let’s see if it’s worth the $6.99 asking price.

If you …
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Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Nowhere Prophet places you at the head of a group wandering in search of a safe haven at the mystical Crypt. The collapse of civilisation …
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It took a while, but Starlit Adventures Golden Stars on the Nintendo Switch has won me over.

My initial undecided stretch stemmed from starting the game in single-player. When tackling …
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Creepy Tale is aptly titled. This Nintendo Switch platform-adventure game from No Gravity Games takes you on a mysterious journey through an eerie forest. With a cryptic puzzle dynamic and …
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The PN crew published 47 reviews during July. That’s our highest total since November 2019! We covered a variety of games, with scores ranging from as low as 3 to …
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Jisei: The First Case HD is a visual novel, murder mystery game from Sakevisual. It was originally released for PC in 2010 and is now on the Nintendo Switch for …
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Dodo Peak is “a throwback to the classic arcade platformers of the past,” but it comes up short in addictiveness.

At first glance, the game is reminiscent of Q*bert. But …
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