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Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Remember when being a “rebel” in the gaming world meant playing a game where the main character monotonously grumbles about hating “human worms”? Ah, 2015. The launch of Hatred was a masterclass in marketing, positioning itself as a brave crusade against the politically correct, “colorful” trends of the […]

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Forget challenging gameplay for a second. Sometimes, you just want to unleash digital hell in its most visceral, pixelated, and splatter-heavy form. You’re not looking for a tough boss; you’re looking for a bloodbath. This list is for those who appreciate when a game doesn’t just

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Welcome to the Ministry of Admission, where your family’s survival depends on your ability to deny others theirs. Papers, Please, Lucas Pope’s iconic “dystopian document thriller,” remains as brutally relevant in 2025 as it was at its 2013 debut. This is a paperwork purgatory that masterfully blends bureaucratic puzzle-solving

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Step into any digital game store, and you’re greeted by a kaleidoscope of visual creativity. But for those of us craving truly unique worlds, indie games are where art direction becomes pure magic. They are the passion projects where every brushstroke, pixel, and polygon is placed

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. You know that feeling when you finish a piece of media—a game, a book, a film—and you just have to sit there for a minute, staring at a blank wall, while your entire brain rewires itself to accommodate what you just experienced? You then, of course,

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Halloween is creeping up on us, and while you could celebrate by putting on a cheap mask and eating your body weight in candy corn, there’s a better, far more terrifying option: diving headfirst into the world of indie horror games.  There are big-budget horror games

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. When a game announces itself as coming from the creative minds behind Journey and ABZÛ (check out our review here), it sets expectations somewhere in the stratosphere. Sword of the Sea, the latest from developers Giant Squid, makes this bold claim proudly. But does it actually manage to surf its

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve decided you enjoy pain. Not the kind you get from stubbing your toe, but the curated, digital masochism that is the roguelike genre. You love spending 50 hours on a perfect run, only to die to a pixel-wide hitbox and have the game whisper,

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve seen the trailers for Hell is Us, heard the whispers of a challenging, monster-filled adventure, and your brain immediately went to one place: “Ooh, a new Soulslike!” Hold that thought, brave warrior, because you’re about to be as disappointed as when you first realized you couldn’t fast-travel

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. If you, dear reader, have ever wanted to micromanage peasants, wage war with hex-grid knights, or convince your AI opponents to cry uncle (metaphorically speaking, of course), then indie strategy games are your jam. This list is our curated top 10 of indie strategy games ever