About David Temple

Tunnel of Doom is a rogue-lite, tower defense mash-up. And while it is a good combination of the two genres, it doesn’t seem to be as well executed as it could have been.
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Howdy gamers. We’re serving up some old west excitement with Lone McLonegan: A Western Adventure. Let’s see what the most wanted outlaw in the land is up to these days.

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy comes with good design elements, a cool soundtrack, and very good dialogue and voice acting. The Switch’s cloud version, however, comes with connection issues I can’t just overlook.
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Welcome to Monomals, a game in which you are a DJ going fishing for exotic critters you can use to make your music. I know it sounds a bit odd, but it’s a video game, so let’s go with it.
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Hail and well met, good sir-knight. Put on your plate armor, don your helmet, and pick up your….gun? Well, that’s a bit different. Knights & Guns is a 2D action game where you run back and forth shooting the invading monsters, and you can only shoot straight up.
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Good news—the prince has ordered your release from Crucis Prison. Bad news—you have to travel across a frozen land to go see him…immediately. Bundle up, buttercup; it’s going to be a chilly ride through this turn-based strategy RPG.
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Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle is a turn-based card strategy game. A really well-done card battle game. You get the usual mechanics, but how Shadowverse goes about utilizing them is quite clever.
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Unavowed is a bit dark and includes some crude imagery and language, and there are a lot of “shades of gray” versus obvious black and white / good versus evil interactions. Is it worth finding your way through this retro adventure/puzzle game from Wadjet Eye?
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As a single player game, the arcade racer Crash Drive 3 can feel a bit empty. But it’ll very likely be a real hoot for the kids who just want to explore and goof around. As a multiplayer game, it can be a free-for-all blast.
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I did not play Destroy All Humans on its initial release, and thought maybe it was a twist on Destroy All Monsters. Not quite. If you have not been exposed to this game before, it’s a 1950s “little green men from Mars” coming to kill us all sort of thing…and it’s a hoot.
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Hey there foodies, we have a new game for you: Foodtruck Arena. Unfortunately, you don’t get to actually eat the food because the trucks are too busy playing automobile soccer.
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Cosmic Top Secret is a fun adventure/puzzle game. The odd presentation may strike some as just being weird, but I think it’s quirky enough to be both different and engaging.
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Fire: Ungh’s Quest is the story of our hapless hero, Ungh. On his first night watch, all he had to do was make sure the campfire didn’t go out. Too bad he fell asleep and let the fire die. Now, Ungh has to get out there in the world and figure out the secret of fire before he can go home.
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When I got word the next title in the review queue was Space Commander: War and Trade, I was optimistic. After playing this space-sim action/RPG for a while, however, that optimism turned to…meh.
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As a grid-based, first-person, action/adventure RPG, Vaporum: Lockdown offers plenty of gameplay elements to keep you busy. But do they all come together well in this prequel to Vaporum? Let’s turn on some lights and try to find out.
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When I first took this review, all I knew was the title: Rip Them Off. I wondered what it would really be about; surely, it wouldn’t be as obvious as it seems. Well, it is that obvious. It’s also a good, unique tower defense game with a comically cynical viewpoint.
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Faircroft’s Antiques: Home for Christmas Collector’s Edition is a hidden-objects game with a Christmas theme. Even if it isn’t actually Christmas time, we can all use a little more of the Christmas spirit these days.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV is a grand strategy game which can almost be called a civilization sim. Does its deep complexity hold up on the Nintendo Switch?
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