Review by Lindsay M. I started dating someone back in early 2007. The relationship seemed doomed from the onset, as another man stole my heart that first year. The love, however, was unrequited, and so I stayed with my boyfriend regardless. In the decade that has followed, my faraway love…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It was inevitable that the Nintendo Switch would eventually get some kind of Threes clone, and Levels+ is definitely a Threes clone. It’s the right kind of console for this kind of puzzle game; it’s the kind of quick, mentally stimulating experience that’s perfect to unwind…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. “You’re a wizard, Harry… And a thumpin’ good one, I’ll wager, once you’ve been trained up a bit and can spell long words with random letters quickly while using a joystick and remembering odd button choices.” Related reading: This actually isn’t the first word RPG on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. GNOG is delightful. It doesn’t really have a purpose, intent, or reason to exist, and that’s precisely why it’s a delight; it’s an acid trip given form and a playful bit of nothingness that’s really quite hard to put down. Each “level” of GNOG starts life…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. The magical mystery tour is here, finally, and it took me away. At least that’s The Beatles inspired feeling I experienced as I started playing Vignettes on my iPad, with its very Warhol choice of colour palettes, atmospheric music and minimalistic presentation. As well as it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Both Puyo Puyo and Tetris are action puzzle games in which you need to create specific combinations of objects as they fall down a well-like container, in order to make them disappear and prevent the well from filling up. Despite that similarity, before playing Puyo Puyo…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. By early 2017, cooks all over the world are familiar with the mandatory ingredients for baking good mobile games. The key ingredient is a simple yet addictive gaming mechanic. Consider the classic example of matching three or more similar tiles in games such as Bejeweled. The…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. If you’ve ever read a work by Kafka, you’ll know that it’s a rather disorientating experience. Not only is it hard to figure out what’s going on, due to the rampant surrealism and unconventional grammar, but it’s even harder to figure out what you’re meant to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s been a good couple of weeks for super-smart visual novels. On the one hand, you’ve got Danganronpa 1+2 Reload. It’s bright, it’s colourful. It has sexy anime girls and awesome anime guys, and even a cute mascot character. Sure that mascot is also a psychopathic…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I didn’t really know what to expect, going into Unearthing Mars. I hadn’t heard of it before the review code for sent my way, and I didn’t do any sort of research before strapping on my VR unit and diving in. I’m glad I didn’t, because…
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