Nintendo Switch

If you’re looking for speedy shmup action, Revolgear Zero has you covered. It offers a solid variety of enemies and weapons in which to take them down effectively. Co-op play …
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Dark Auction is a point-and-click adventure gameconsisting of memory-based puzzles and dialogue options, as well as a lot of reading. Parts of it feel more graphic novel than point-and-click, but if you keep with it, it’s pretty good.
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Straight away, there are multiple things I don’t like about Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. I didn’t like them when I reviewed the Macintosh release in 2014, and I don’t like them now. But with the initial shock of Lara’s dark turn a decade out of the way, it’s easier to enjoy the game for what it is.
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Late ’90s Paris—an auspicious time and starting point for my all-time favorite globetrotting graphic adventure: Broken Sword. This Reforged version is “substantially enhanced,” with improvements varying in quality, especially for …
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Cassette Boy is a puzzle RPG for the Nintendo Switch. It features a top-down perspective, ticklish brain teasers, and a pixel-based world. Is it worth exploring?

The story follows the …
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Forestrike is a new fighting game on the Nintendo Switch, and it’s not your typical fighting game. Instead of rushing in and mashing buttons, it wants you to slow down …
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With Tiny Biomes, eastasiasoft and Double Mizzlee have brought us a gentle puzzler that’s better at helping you chill out than it is at providing a challenge. That can be OK sometimes, but this game still needed a little more effort.
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A masterclass in short and simple yet incredibly effective horror, Dollmare is a game contained fully within the plunging shadows of a creepy doll factory where you are a quality …
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This game deserves a review which provides the fewest spoilers possible. It’s called Viewfinder, and it’s one of the more interesting puzzle games I have played in a long time.
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Hextreme Void is an action game developed by Double Mizzlee and published by Eastasiasoft. If you enjoy bullet-hell games, then this title will be up your alley. However, time spent …
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This series has grown into one of the deepest and most convoluted universes I’ve ever adventured through, but that doesn’t prevent The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon from being an enjoyable game with many rewards for those who’ve been following along.
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RANDOMAX is a vertical shoot ‘em up developed by ASTRO PORT and published by Sanuk Inc. It’s a brief roguelite where no two playthroughs are the same between the weapons …
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Hero Seekers is a JRPG developed by Vanguard and published by KEMCO. This title contains a linear gameplay path, a decent story with interesting character backgrounds, and turn-based strategy combat. …
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Contrasting a bitter environment with an adorable style, Winter Burrow is a survival game in which you play as an orphaned mouse rebuilding your home in the depths of a …
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Absolum is a roguelite beat ‘em up developed by Supamonks and DotEmu and published by DotEmu. With multiple characters to choose from, local and online co-op, and multiple paths to …
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I have no memory of playing Montezuma’s Revenge when it was originally released for various systems in 1984. I had access to two of those systems, but not to this game. Had I, I likely wouldn’t have taken on Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition.
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You spend the entirety of A Game About Digging a Hole, well, digging a hole. And though it may not sound the most exciting, it kept me entertained a couple hours. However…
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We have a shmup on deck for you, so what time is it? Time to open fire! Our game today is a new entry in one of the all-time great series: R-Type Delta: HD Boosted. The R-Type is back and ready to satisfy your shmuppy desires.
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