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TL;DR Review: A love letter to 1950s B-movies written with modern bullets and wobbly spacecraft. Classic, frantic shoot-‘em-up gameplay wrapped in a glorious black-and-white aesthetic. It’s like watching Plan 9 from Outer Space while mainlining pure caffeine. Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest, the “shmup” (shoot ’em up, for the uninitiated) genre […]

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. It has been ten years since Campo Santo dropped Firewatch onto an unsuspecting public. A decade of hot takes, a decade of “walking simulator” arguments that make you want to delete your Twitter account, and a decade of people asking: “Wait, that’s it?” But here we are, in 2026.

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Listen. We all know the drill. You fire up the latest “AAA” multiplayer experience, only to realize you are either (A) a wallet to be milked for $20 skins, or (B) a walking advertisement for the “Skill-Based Matchmaking” algorithm that apparently thinks you can guard LeBron

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Here’s a note from my friend: “I told myself I would just check it out for an hour. One hour. That was the deal. Pop over to Willy’s boat, see the island, grab a golden walnut or two, and sail home in time to water my

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look. We both know you’re not here for a 60-hour “emotional journey” through a depressed robot’s childhood memories. You’re here because you have five minutes. Maybe ten if your boss is still in that meeting. You want to tap, swipe, or click something that makes a

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, we’ve all been there. You’re the omnipotent AI of a state-of-the-art space station orbiting Earth. You’ve got access to life support, gravity controls, and the comms array. Life is good. Suddenly, a mysterious blue anomaly (is it ever a friendly green one?) slams into your hull, the

Let’s be real. You’ve got a backlog that stretches to Mars, a Steam library full of games you bought on sale “for later,” and exactly zero self-control. But here you are, ready to add ten more titles to the pile. Good news: Summer 2026 is shaping up to be that rare indie season where the

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest: Hollow Knight isn’t a game you beat. It’s a game you endure. A beautiful, bug-infested, spike-lined endurance test where the main character’s only emotional range is “slightly concerned” and “dead again.” But the Charm system? That’s your coping mechanism. Slap on a few notches of hope, and

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be real for a second. Many indie games launch to a smattering of polite applause, three Steam reviews from the developer’s cousins, and a Discord server with 12 confused bots. But every so often, the gaming universe glitches. A tiny, weird, slightly-broken passion project escapes

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, I get it. You’ve seen the trailers. You think you’re tough because you sat through the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie without hiding behind your popcorn. Welcome to Darkwood. You are not ready. In an era where the gaming industry thinks “horror” means standing still while a Victorian