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Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve just booted up a 16-year-old game. A game that’s in black and white, stars a kid who can’t talk, and features a tutorial that’s basically “just try not to get decapitated.” Welcome to Limbo. And no, before you ask, this isn’t a guide on how […]

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, we all know the drill. You’ve got a library of 400 untouched games from the last summer sale. You tell yourself, “Tonight, I’ll finally finish that critically acclaimed 80-hour JRPG.” Then some pixel-art crime spree or a game about organizing a garage full of garbage

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be real for a second. You’ve probably got 47 unfinished Terraria worlds, a Minecraft server that’s been abandoned since the last admin drama, and you just rage-quit No Man’s Sky because a sentinel drone clipped through a trading post. And now you’re looking at Starbound. The space sandbox where you can literally

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Oh, wonderful. You read that other list. The one with the silent travelers, the anxious mountain climbers, and that lamb with a surprisingly robust cult management system. You probably felt things. You probably cried a little. You probably added seventeen games to your backlog you’ll never actually

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve started Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. You’ve seen the beautiful Belle Époque landscapes, you’ve heard the haunting score, and you’ve immediately tried to parry the first basic enemy only to eat a full combo to the face. Welcome to the club. You might be tempted to

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Oh, look. Another “top 10” list. Because the internet desperately needed more of these. But before you click away to watch a 47-minute video essay about why a pixelated rock is actually a metaphor for capitalism—hear me out. These are the Top 10 2D Indie Games

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. If you played the first Blasphemous and thought, “You know what this pixel-perfect, guilt-ridden nightmare needs? More spikes. And even less emotional stability,” then congratulations. You are exactly the kind of person Blasphemous 2 was designed for. The Game Kitchen somehow looked at the unholy lovechild of Dark Souls and Catholic guilt

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest. Most AAA racing games today are just fancy storefronts. You pay $70 for the privilege of looking at a car you can’t afford, then another $30 for a paint job that looks like a soda advertisement. Oh, and the “season pass”? That’s just

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest. In The Battle of Polytopia, the first ten turns aren’t just “the start.” They are the entire game. If you are a new player, you are probably spending these turns clicking on pretty animals and hoping for the best. If you are an intermediate

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, we get it. You’ve planted virtual turnips until 3 AM. You’ve hugged so many anthropomorphic vegetables that your therapist is asking questions. You’ve read the same two “top 5 cozy games” lists so many times that Stardew Valley’s loading screen music now plays in your