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Of course, you know by now about Vampire Survivors. Everyone does, and they are pretty vocal about it. Even if you ignored relentless Twitch streaming…

Scorn is a horror puzzle adventure inspired by the disturbingly glorious work of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. I had to google that second guy…

Well-established hard-core extraction shooters like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown are riddled with cheaters. It would be a severe understatement to say that they…

A whole year before Heroes of Might and Magic, one awesome game had set the gold standard for future turn-based fantasy strategies. Simtex’s Master of…

LEGO Brawls was Apple Arcade exclusive since 2019, but now the game is available on consoles and PC. What was essentially a mobile freebie you…

Perhaps you are familiar with so-called “Monke” memes? Diligent chroniclers from knowyourmeme.com state that “Return to Monke encompasses a series of memes closely associated with…

How do you react to a splash screen proudly proclaiming that government funding assisted in the development of a video game? I feel an influx…

One of the most popular games during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020/2021 was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo Switch exclusive casual life sim. The game…

It’s a well-known fact that the best games in every generation of consoles come out near the end of their life span. The Last of…

It has been eight years since Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, a stand-alone expansion for Saints Row IV. The world had massively changed since…

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The eighties are universally regarded as an era of global prosperity, but few are aware that the world had few close existential calls during that…

Two Point Campus is a goofy management sim made by a British studio that gave us Two Point Hospital. Calling it “sim” might be overstretching…

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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is an alternate-timeline spin-off to Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019). It uses hack and slash combat mechanics similar to other…