Game Reviews8.6/10
Dredge turns fishing into a slow-burn horror story, and it works
Dredge turns fishing into slow-burn horror: night fog, a panic meter, mutated aberrations, and a twist ending. Our review scores it 8.6 of 10.
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Game Reviews8.3/10
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack: A Grumpy Blob Done Right
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack review — DrinkBox's Vita launch platformer where eating makes you grow, now on Switch, PC and more. Score: 8.3/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Huntdown’s Cyberpunk Bounty Hunters Still Earn Their Paychecks Six Years On
Huntdown review: Easy Trigger's grimy arcade run-and-gun bounty shooter, its three hunters, four gangs and Shimamoto betrayal, scored 8.2 of 10.
Game Reviews8.1/10
The Lion’s Song Review: Mi’pu’mi Games’ Four Artists, One Storm
The Lion's Song review: Mi'pu'mi Games' story-driven game follows four artists in early 1900s Europe, from composer Wilma Dörfl to mathematician Emma Recniczek.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Before We Leave Review: A Cozy, Non-Violent City-Builder Where Space Whales Eat Planets
Before We Leave review: a cozy, non-violent city-builder where Peeps rebuild civilization from a bunker and launch into space. Score: 8.3/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Gorogoa’s hand-drawn panels turn the act of looking into the puzzle itself
Gorogoa review: Jason Roberts' wordless hand-drawn puzzle game, where stacking four panels is both the mechanic and the meaning. Score: 8.2/10.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine — A Heist Game About Not Being Able to See
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine review: Pocketwatch's fog-of-war heist game, eight one-skill characters, four narrators, and co-op that still carries it. 8.6/10.
Game Reviews8.4/10
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Review — A Small Bar in a Big Dystopia
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action review — a 2016 bartending visual novel where the drinks you pour shape the story. Score: 8.4/10.
Game Reviews6.1/10
InnerSpace’s inverted worlds look lovely and stay stubbornly empty
InnerSpace review: PolyKnight's inverted-physics flight game scores 6.1/10 — a striking premise that never quite becomes a place.
Game Reviews7/10
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Stories as Currency, and the Long Walk to Hear Them
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine review: a Depression-era story-collecting adventure that's slow by design, scoring 7/10 for its folklore-as-currency system.
Game Reviews6.2/10
Rain World’s ecosystem was designed to kill you, and nine years on nothing else plays like it
Rain World review: Videocult's brutal 2017 survival-platformer casts you as a slugcat in a dying ecosystem. Beautiful, strange, miserable. Score: 6.2/10.
Game Reviews8/10
Lab horror Demon Spore turns containment into a losing race against your own specimen
Demon Spore review: DinoBoss's rogue-lite horror shooter traps you in a collapsing genetics lab with an evolving monster. Score: 8 of 10.