About Bill Stiteler

Moncage is both lyrical and confounding, abstract and exacting. It’s a puzzle game that should be treated like a collection of short stories rather than a novel. It’s quite literally to be puzzled over.
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Sometimes, you just want a donut, ya know? You don’t want a buffet, you don’t want a seven course meal, you just want a well-made, fresh-out-of-the-oven, glazed donut. The Dark Prophecy is just that, and I devoured it.
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What fun! Arcade Paradise is a wonderfully weird little pile of several minigames stacked on top of each other. But first, it’s a business simulator where you run a laundromat.
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What if the post-apocalypse was fun? Not the apocalypse itself, mind you, but a period after, when the survivors emerged and things were mostly OK? That’s the case with the city-building sim Before We Leave…until game-breaking bugs spoil the good times.
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What we want and what we want people to know about us are two very different things. And in the world of GameDec, you play a character whose job it is to uncover dirty laundry and clean it up, or maybe throw it in an incinerator, never to be seen again.
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As its name suggests, Autonauts is a building and crafting game focused on building and automating production. You do this through your robots, whom you “program” by training them to perform repetitive tasks. 
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Plants. Zombies. Enemies from the dawn of time, as we all know. But the question the game Deadcraft dares to pose is…what if plants are zombies?
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The Serpent Rogue is an interesting mashup. It’s part Souls-like, part crafting, and a whole lot of trial and error. It’s both accessible and challenging, adorable and inscrutable, and quite charming all the while.
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Did you ever dream of being an astronaut? I did. I was entranced by both the thrill of Buck Rogers’ dogfights-in-space version as well as the dopey goofiness of our actual space program. Enter orbit.industries, a building management sim based on the concept of a commercial orbital station.
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Short version: Mokoko X is Qix, and Qix is always great. But the developer added two spins to this game: bosses and a storyline. The latter of these is—to put it in technical terms—Bonkers Magoo.
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Some games are challenging by design. They offer no help. They are demanding. Some games, however, are challenging because they are simply confounding. Ikai, unfortunately, is one of those games.
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Gal*Gun Double Peace is a shooter-on-rails game with light elements of a dating sim. You play a high school boy who gets shot by a powerful love arrow, causing girls to attacking him to declare their love. What follows is…well…
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An out-of-work magician with a child and elderly mother to support is blackmailed into a life of crime, breaking into a museum to steal a mystic amulet that fuses with his body, turning him into a werewolf. I know what you’re thinking: “Again!?”
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Omega Labyrinth Life is a roguelike dungeon crawler set in the garden of a Japanese Academy where the miracle flower that keeps the garden forever blooming has been destroyed, and the female high school students must descend to the underworld to restore it by…wait; is our age verification in place?
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A group of teenage girls is accidentally doused with a potion that turns them into “animals.” But there is a solution to save these sexy animal girls—you get them into a pinball machine and strike their bodies with a pinball until they collapse from apparent ecstasy and change back. It’s a tale as old as time.
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It’s difficult to review A Dark Room for the Nintendo Switch, not because I haven’t played the game (I have) and not because I didn’t enjoy it (I did). …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A penguin wants to fly. So naturally it boards a rocket and flies into space. But! Wouldn’t you know it, there’s an …
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Sure, you love brawling games, with their frenetic gameplay, dizzying speed, and best of all, the fun of crushing your friends and loved ones with imaginary violence. But what if …
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