Mind: Path to Thalamus works best when it forgets itself
“All of this sounds pretty cheesy or lame I’m sure. And it is.”
Review
Flying high on the unfriendly skies of Hohokum
Like stumbling around with a hippie all day. In a good way?
The Walking Dead’s penultimate episode is strangely subdued
Things are quiet … too quiet.
Dark Souls II: The Lost World
In its first batch of DLC, From Software looks (exclusively) to the past
Fighting the power-and a rough beginning-in Unrest
No giant rats to grind on here.
Only If isn’t interested in playing nice
And we in turn are not interested in playing it.
For a game about infographics, Metrico struggles to deliver info
Cutting through the numbers.
The Last Night explores cyberpunk’s dead end
A two-minute game made in less than a week draws 35 years of sci-fi to a halt.
Abyss Odyssey is an oasis in the desert for a 2D Castlevania fan
Everything old is … well, still sorta old, but not bad.
Death, regret, and resource management in Spry Fox’s Road Not Taken
Alchemy in winter.
A robot breaks its rules in The Fall
One way to go?
Filling in the blank spaces of The Swapper
One of 2013’s best games was secretly about music.
A review of Sokobond, a (fun, we promise) game about chemistry
Neither here nor there.
The Wolf Among Us’s finale feels surprisingly real-life for a comicbook
Whose fantasy is this?
Why a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons matters
The first step in evaluating a new era of roleplaying games.
Exploring the defiantly cheesy expanses of Wildstar
There is a thing in this game that screams about the things that you do.
Tash-Kalar rejoices in your dinkiest accomplishments
Well done, you.
Speaking to inanimate objects in Divinity: Original Sin
An erroneous comedy.
MultipliCITY makes a strong case that SimCity is capitalist hogwash
Turns out, there are problems with playing God.
The 30th Nancy Drew videogame may be the best one yet
The girl detective is at her best in HerInteractive’s long-running series.
Ever go to a rave with a bunch of robots? You can, in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
GOD MODE ENABLED: A review of David O’Reilly’s Mountain
“Watching digital paint dry” can be a pretty big picture, it turns out.
Shovel Knight may be retro, but it’s forward-thinking
The lures and limits of nostalgia.
Forget plight in Machi Koro
In a world free of debt and disaster, how well can you build a town?