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There's a dreadful feeling one can have when wanting to play a game but not being able to: Like a horror game that's too intense or a fighting game when on a losing streak. In the case of Back 4 Bloo...

Labelling Superliminal in a few words is a challenge because it’s not entirely a puzzle game and not wholly a guided exploration game. Both elements flow between one another without much fanfar...

If there's a game I've played in recent years that defines 'a fun time, but-' to the letter in my books, it'd be Paper Mario: The Origami King. It's a grand adventure that's colourful, well-written, ...

Trying to review Animal Crossing is like reviewing a local diner that's reworked part of its menu: There are some new flavours and features, but you're no stranger to the rest. If you're familiar with...

Xenoblade Chronicles (Definitive Edition) on paper and in practice has many things I enjoy going for it: A fantastic soundtrack, an earnest (though riff-worthy) voice cast, big maps to explore in a un...

A game feeling ‘good’ to play has universal definitions depending on what genre you’re talking about: Platformers should have tight, responsive controls, fighters/beat em’ ups...

Calling The Flower Collectors a detective mystery game is like calling cheesecake a health food; the components that make it means you’re correct but mostly on a technicality. This isn’t ...

A warning in advance, I don't have a terrible lot of nice things to say about Paradise Killer, and I feel bad about that since the game starts so strongly and with such good first impressions: It has ...

There’s a fine and often foggy line when it comes to games designed to be challenging, having to balance providing enough tools, mechanics and means for the player while also pressing them to ef...

[I’ve only just begun the chapter for the purple streamer, so there may be new things I’ve yet to see. These are my current loose thoughts on the game; a full review with differing opinions may follow...

[Note: This piece contains story spoilers to the Artemis storyline. I haven’t completed the game yet, but this was such a big event that I felt like writing about it.]No Man’s Sky getting a narrative ...

[Note: The multiplayer aspect hasn’t interested me nor do I have anyone to play it with, so that’s why it won’t be covered in this review.]For as much as I dislike relying on compari...

[If you'd like to watch some gameplay and listen to an audio reading of this, following this link if the embedded video isn't working.]It’s difficult to talk about Outer Wilds without addres...

[I’ve been unable to finish Baba is You so giving it a full review doesn’t feel right (at least for me). I still wanted to talk about it so blog-style it is. If you’d like to watch some gameplay while...

[There's no entry for the game on the wiki and the site won't let me make one so I can't properly post this under the review section, so blog it is.]Cooperative games tend to fall under two distinct s...