Author: Victor Tan
Victor enjoys writing about games to help players who are getting stuck or need advice on difficult parts of the game. He is a big fan of RPGs but I also like playing games of other genres, and can easily spend hours on a single game.
Loretta Review – Broken Thriller (PC)
Loretta tells a gripping thriller that sucks you in, making you want to learn what happens next. With multiple endings, there are many storylines to explore. Unfortunately, unnecessary puzzles and scenes disrupt the story and make no sense ...
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition Review – You’ve Tried The Best (PS5)
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition provides a polished experience for players who never touched the game before. Veterans will only find an increased level cap and better graphics, which isn’t much to return to unless you enjoy furth...
Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society Review – Proud Dungeon Exploration (PS5)
Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society contains a complex battle system, and expects you to spend hours exploring every inch of its dungeons. If you are willing to invest the time, there’s a fun adventure with a nice story and rewarding ga...
Ten Dates Review – Fast Thinking Conversations (PC)
Ten Dates provides a great insight into the possibilities that can emerge from speed dating. It does a great job covering all the emotions in the dating process and all the results. Some of the magic is lost if you are trying to uncover eve...
The Mortuary Assistant Review – Quirky Demon Busting
The Mortuary Assistant is great at delivering a creepy atmosphere and jump scares at every opportunity. Item locations and demon possessions change each round to keep you on your toes. Some control quirks and visual glitches interfere with ...
Welcome to Goodland Preview – The Start of a Slippery Slope
Welcome to Goodland gives you a brief taste of a man slipping into the crime world. Potentially catastrophic story decisions and tough business decisions rear their head as the pressure mounts. It’s a short but challenging experience that m...
Kandria Review – Disappointing Repetitive Journey
Kandria has a great premise, but refuses to utilize it. Instead, it relies on unnecessarily tough platforming to take up the bulk of the gameplay. If the platforming didn’t exist, all you have is a weak story, frequent round trips, and simp...
Rogue AI Simulator Review – Amusing Apocalypse Planning
Rogue AI Simulator has you managing a group of test subjects while planning the end of the world. Learning the basics takes a while and you are expected to fail multiple times. But if you persevere, you will easily spend hours trying to hid...
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator Preview – Cooking to the Top (PC)
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator puts you in charge of cooking Michelin-level food. Combining restaurant management with cooking results in a steep learning curve, as well as an immersive experience. If you can balance both sides of the bu...
Sandwalkers: The Fourteenth Caravan Preview – Calculated Journeying
Sandwalkers: The Fourteenth Caravan throws you into the deep end, but you will quickly grasp exploration and combat. It’s a trial by fire that throws punishing and difficult situations at you, but the trappings of a good strategy exploratio...
Floodland Review – Complex Expansion Survival
Floodland puts you in the uncomfortable position of making tough decisions with limited resources. Trying to grow a society with different personalities and goals will have you think carefully about your next move. While it isn’t always obv...
Bones of Halloween Review – Bare Bones Shooter (PS5)
Bones of Halloween is a simple FPS where you survive as long as you can. While there are methods to keep gameplay exciting, there isn’t enough content to keep you playing. It’s simple fun that keeps you entertained for a few hours, but you ...
Blood West Preview – Lonely Stealth Horror
Blood West is an interesting combination of the horror genre and the Wild West setting. The atmosphere is dark and the enemies are punishing, requiring you to use stealth. The gameplay foundations are solid, but clashes with the theme of th...
Broken Pieces Review – An Unsure Thriller (PC)
Broken Pieces has the solid foundations of exploration and puzzle solving that you would see in a survival horror. Unfortunately, it positions itself as a psychological thriller without much of either aspect. An unclear story, poor characte...
Floodland Preview – Rebuilding Civilization Slowly (PC)
Floodland does an excellent job in creating the foundations of a survival game that makes you think. You must manage the behaviour of several survivors while ensuring that everyone gets enough resources to survive. The mechanics can take so...
Paragon Pioneers Review – Overnight Island Conquering (PC)
Paragon Pioneers does a great job in creating a game that can be played casually. Island management can be done at your own pace, and it was designed for short play periods. Unfortunately, it’s only meant for casual play, which means anyone...
Circus Electrique Review – Satisfying Circus Balancing Act (PC)
Circus Electrique does its best to balance a story, circus management, and tactical dungeon exploration. The result is a satisfying game that will keep you entertained, but works against itself with its pacing and in-depth gameplay systems....
Sunday Gold Review – Quick High Stakes Crime Spree (PC)
Sunday Gold expertly blends turn-based combat and point-and-click adventuring together in a high stakes crime story. Unfortunately, its ambitious formula is betrayed by the game’s short length, and there are some bugs that can derail the ot...
Betrayal At Club Low Review – Brute Force Dice Rolling (PC)
Betrayal At Club Low is a quick adventure which gives you many options to complete your mission. Failure is rare as you can brute force challenges until you can upgrade your way to victory. Replay value attempts to combat the short length, ...
Video Game Fables Review – Silly Deconstruction Fun (PC)
Video Game Fables deconstructs the typical RPG tropes in a way that brings a good sense of humor and levity to the game. While it can’t completely escape some of the tropes that it brings up, you will have a good time playing along with a g...
Cartel Tycoon Review – Micromanaging Your Illegal Empire (PC)
Cartel Tycoon has a complex management system that operates in real-time, having you manage and defend your empire at the same time. The game’s simple stories and gameplay quirks drag the game down, and it is noticeable enough that it will ...
Monster Sanctuary Review – Strategic Monster Battling (PC)
Monster Sanctuary combines platforming, turn based combat, and monster collection to create a fun dungeon crawling experience. While there isn’t a strong story that would be seen on other platformers, Monster Sanctuary still delivers a fun ...
Dragon Forge Review – Slowly Building New Lands
Dragon Forge does its best to give you a fantasy experience that puts you in control of building an empire to restore dragonkind. Unfortunately, that experience feels like a mobile game where patience is more important than strategy or skil...
Smilemo Review: Frustrating & Punishing Platformer
Smilemo gives a subtle, yet punishing challenge for players by putting a high price on failure. The platforming is challenging as your movements need to be precise, with a lot of trial-and-error. Unfortunately, the challenge is all that the...
Eternal Threads Review: Choose Your Own Resolution (PC)
Eternal Threads tells multiple emotional stories with time traveling that allows you to shape and experience a story by altering choices. Not every choice leads to a desired outcome, which helps deliver a challenge and adds complexity to th...
7 Beginner Tips for Don’t Starve Together
When you start Don’t Starve Together, you are thrown into a world with little guidance or direction. It can be confusing, but with these beginner tips, you will learn what is important for survival. After building a strong foundation, you c...
Godlike Burger Review: Serving Up Customers (PC)
Godlike Burger puts a spin on restaurant management by forcing the player to balance earning money from customers with turning them into food. Learning and adapting to changing circumstances is a fun experience. The control scheme and some ...
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Review: Digging Up Dreams
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a paleontology simulator where you control an aspiring paleontologist starting their career. It has a touching story that reminds you of chasing childhood dreams mixed with paleontology. While the premise is great ...
8 Beginner Tips for 7 Days To Die
Struggling to get started in 7 Days to Die? With these beginner tips, you will be able to find the confidence to explore, avoid getting killed, have the correct materials on hand and start completing tier quests to survive in the apocalypti...
Brigandine The Legend of Runersia Review: A Long Conquest Story (PC)
Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia delivers a solid turn-based strategy experience that runs smoothly on the PC, testing your tactical prowess with empire management and army configurations. However, the game’s simple storylines and potenti...
JANITOR BLEEDS Review: Frightening Arcade Pursuit (PC)
JANITOR BLEEDS has good horror gameplay backed by a creepy atmosphere and a mysterious entity that hunts you down with precision and speed. Unfortunately, some graphical issues and a weak story weigh the game down heavily, and introduce mor...
The House Of The Dead Remake Review: Imprecise Zombie Extermination
The House Of The Dead Remake is a good attempt to revive the classic shooter and it can be fun to relive the original 1996 adventure. Unfortunately, unwieldy controls and precision issues prevent the remake from being the zombie-busting exp...
Weird West Review: A Strange Adventure (PC)
Weird West is a third person RPG which is a great dark fantasy re-imagining of the Wild West with supernatural elements. Its fast-paced combat and in-game decision making stand out, but the story and repetition detract from an otherwise sol...
