Game Reviews7.5/10
Pikuniku’s goofy exterior hides a tight, generous puzzle-platformer
Pikuniku review: Sectordub's funny puzzle-platformer about free money, corn, and a robot pitchman — a 7.5/10 with great tone and thin puzzles.
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Game Reviews7.8/10
Kaze and the Wild Masks Nails the Look of a 16-Bit Platformer but Trips Over Its Own Level Design
Kaze and the Wild Masks review: PixelHive's 2021 throwback platformer on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC and Stadia, scored 7.8/10.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Metroidvania Where the Hero Is a Cat and the Mech Is Optional
Gato Roboto review: Doinksoft's 2019 1-bit Metroidvania puts a cat in a mech suit on PC, Xbox One and Switch, with a talking rat and a MEOW passcode.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Eight years on, Mulaka’s Tarahumara folklore still carries its action-adventure
Mulaka review: Lienzo's 3D action-adventure turns the Sierra Tarahumara and Tarahumara culture into a playable world of shamans, demigods and myth.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Aeterna Noctis Review: A Good Metroidvania with a Great Premise and a Mean Streak
Aeterna Noctis review: the hand-drawn Metroidvania's immortal King and Queen, 16 areas, brutal platforming, and what its 7.8 score really means.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Tales of Kenzera: Zau Review: A Metroidvania That Turns Grief Into a Movement Problem
Tales of Kenzera: Zau review — Surgent Studios' 2.5D metroidvania turns grief into a movement problem, with sun and moon masks and a bargain with death.
Game Reviews7.8/10
The Quiet Strategy Game Where You Grow an Army Out of Seeds
Eufloria, the minimalist RTS about growing trees on asteroids, reviewed: seedlings, lasermines, fractal branches, and a 7.8/10 verdict.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Teslagrad Review: A Wordless Steampunk Puzzle-Platformer That Still Holds Up
Teslagrad review: Rain Games' wordless 2013 magnetism platformer still holds up, with hand-drawn rooms and a conspiracy you assemble yourself. 7.9/10.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Retro City Rampage wants to be a lot of things at once
Retro City Rampage review: Vblank's 2012 GTA parody packed 16 filters, 50 missions and a free NES port, but stayed wide instead of deep. 7.2/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Xeodrifter Still Gets In and Out in Four Hours, and That’s the Point
Xeodrifter review: a compact 2014 Metroidvania from Renegade Kid and Atooi, starring an astronaut, four planets and one cracked warp core. Score: 7.9/10.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Train Valley Review: Cheap Rails, Expensive Mistakes
Train Valley review: Flazm's 2015 puzzle-strategy sim asks if you can run a railway without wrecking it. Cheap rails, costly mistakes, 24 levels.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Davey Wreden Made a Game About a Friend’s Unreleased Games, Then Had to Live With What That Meant
A look back at The Beginner's Guide, Davey Wreden's 2015 metafictional follow-up to The Stanley Parable, and what its narration gives and takes.