Let’s Talk About ‘A Juggler’s Tale’ – A Beautiful Platform Adventure Without Much Actual Juggling

Fans of Limbo, Inside, and Little Nightmares will want to check this one out.

Let’s Talk About ‘Unpacking’ – A Relaxing, Surprisingly Emotional Game About… Unpacking.

Open boxes, put stuff away, and uncover a deeply personal story in Unpacking. Available now on Game Pass!

Let’s Talk About ‘Last Stop’ – A Narrative-Heavy Sci-fi Adventure From the Developers of ‘Virginia’

https://youtu.be/7FUw-g65OUg One of my favorite games from 2016 is Variable State's small town mystery Virginia. Without speaking a single word, Virginia oozed character and intrigue while leaving plenty up to the player to decipher. It's so, so good. Needless to say, I was pretty pumped to play the British developer's newest adventure Last Stop, especially …

Let’s Talk About ‘Carto’ – A Map-Making Puzzle Game About Making Friends and Finding Family

https://youtu.be/MrLp01aY5UQ I've been steadily making my way through some of the shorter indie games on Xbox Game Pass, with the latest being a charming little puzzle adventure called Carto. Here, the titular heroine is separated from her grandmother after their airship encounters trouble during a lightning storm. Both happen to be cartographers, which obviously plays …

Let’s Talk About ‘Art of Rally’ – A Low-Poly Racer With Style and Substance

Let's talk about Art of Rally, currently on Xbox Game Pass!

[REVIEW] Have a Good Cry and Solve a Good Puzzle in Evan’s Remains

Although 2D platformers aren't exactly known for their emotional storytelling, there have been some notable additions over the years like Celeste and Inside that offered more than simply running and jumping. The short, sweet, and emotional Evan's Remains definitely falls into that category as well. You play as Dysis, a girl hired by a company …

This New Killer Instinct Documentary is Essential Viewing For Fighting Game Fans

The folks at Hold Back To Block recently released their full-length documentary on the history of Killer Instinct, from its inception to its rocky start on the Xbox One, all the way to its third (and seemingly final) season and incredibly passionate community. As a fighting game fan and as someone who thinks Killer Instinct …

[REVIEW] Twin-stick Shooting in an RPG Roguelite? Demon’s Tier+ Kinda Rules.

The twin-stick control scheme is usually relegated to chaotic shmups, but the folks at COWCAT Games have merged the tried-and-true mechanics into a pixelated RPG in Demon's Tier+. They were kind enough to grant me access to the Xbox version, which I played for a few hours today and wanted to share my thoughts here …

[TRAILER] The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Gives Me A… Little… Hope. God Damnit.

I absolutely LOVED Until Dawn -- it was the reason I bought a PS4 in the first place -- so I was stoked to see the folks at Supermassive working on a multi-platform series of smaller, similar horror titles, beginning with last year's Man of Medan. I did not like it, though. Man of Medan …

‘Coffee Talk’ is a Fantasy Barista Sim With Loads of Character

During all of this self-isolation stuff, I've been using my free time to chip away at my atrocious backlog, and one of those games just happened to be the Indonesian-developed indie Coffee Talk. And I loved it. The game takes place in a fantasy-sprinkled Seattle in the year 2020, with humans living among the likes …