Game Reviews
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Our Summer Sports Review – Dog Days of Summer
Our Summer Sports is a collection of 10 summer-themed minigames from Sat-box, a very prolific maker of cheap bundles of themed minigames. I keep buying these because they’re stupidly cheap on sale and, if not exactly good, are usually entertaining enough for an hour or so. This one doesn’t depart from their typical fare at…
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Volcano Princess Review – Volcano Maker
Volcano Princess is a Princess Maker-style game from a Chinese indie studio. Both of these facts will be obvious from within a few seconds of starting the game. It’s proudly inspired by PM and borrows mechanics and ideas liberally, but generally does so with updates and reimaginings that make it much more than a shallow…
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Dredge Review – Shallow Ocean Fishing
Dredge is a game that sounds almost tailor-made for me specifically. I love both fishing minigames and creeping paranormal horror. When I had the time to play something so determinedly slow paced in college, Sunless Sea was one of my favorite games. At a glance, this looks like it checks all the same boxes and…
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Paranormasight Review – Stylish Mystery
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a Square Enix visual novel that has remarkably little to do with anything else they’ve put out. This is a slightly goofy horror story set in the real world 1980s with some light “meta” elements mixed in. None of those are things Square is exactly known for, which…
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Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files Review – Expansion Excellence
The Kaito Files is a DLC expansion for Lost Judgment that is entirely focused on Kaito and his backstory. A case involving his almost-fiancée from 15 years ago and a teenager who might be his son pops up while every other character is conveniently occupied, so he’s got to take the job by himself. The…
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Lost Judgement Review – Uneven Judgment
Lost Judgment is the sequel to Judgment, and like that game is a Yakuza series spinoff focused on the private detective work of Yagami and friends. It primarily uses the same Ijincho map as Like a Dragon, but don’t expect much in the way of references to that game. Outside of a very subtle cameo…
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Beach Buggy Racing 2 Review – Obscured Vision
Beach Buggy Racing 2 is a kart-racing sequel to a mobile game that was later ported to a bunch of other systems, but not Steam. I haven’t played the original and can’t say what’s changed here, but I can say that it’s missing most of the crap you’d normally expect from a mobile-first game. There…
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All-Star Fruit Racing Review – Not Quite Ripe
I’m not entirely sure why a kart racing game starring fresh fruit exists, but here we are. Despite a title that very much suggests a $3 game created from randomly selected store assets, it actually seems to have had quite a bit of effort put into it. The number of tracks and characters on offer…
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Shing! Review – Teenage Regular Ninja Humans
Shing! is a co-op brawler that, on original release, had some kind of right stick-based combat system that seems to have been widely disliked. This was removed in a later update and it now uses a more traditional system based on button and stick inputs together. It will be quite familiar to anyone who has…
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Madrid Noir Review – Basically a VR Play
Madrid Noir is a VR-exclusive… thing. It calls itself a movie, but since the set is 3D and it occasionally needs your input, I wouldn’t call it one. It’s also hard to call a game since it’ll carry on without you doing anything for the vast majority of the run time and the interactivity is…