Review by Harvard L. The Stillness of the Wind is a game about deterioration – about watching the things that we love, and which we have worked hard to preserve, slowly crumble away around us. It follows an elderly woman named Talma who cares for a small flock of goats…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Thea: The Awakening is one of the most impressive indie titles from recent years, and it has found an ideal platform on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a game that deftly moves between so many genres that it defies any attempt to pigeonhole it, but if you…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. When Nintendo first announced the Switch, I had dreams that I would be able to turn it into a portable arcade: filled with pick-up-and-play games that you could easily share with a friend, ready for everything from 15-minute sessions on a bus to marathons on lazy…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Indie developers have a wonderful ability to come out of nowhere and surprise us with a game that looks amazing, and is announced just days before it’s actually released. Such is the case with The Stillness of the Wind, a game that releases on February 7…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Of the many, many indie games out there, one of those that really stands out as something that might have been overlooked by a lot of people that would otherwise love it is Thea: The Awakening. Superficially it looks like Civilization, but then you start playing,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, Fight of Gods his hilarious. The very idea of pitting Jesus Christ against Buddha, or Santa Claus (hilariously the “God of capitalism”) against Amaterasu, Shinto’s highest goddess, is such nonsense, and the game knows it, and runs with it. Sadly, on the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Shrouded Isle is immediately appealing because of the aesthetic. Like the yellowed pages of a book from antiquity, the deep sepia tones, combined with the promise of a dark narrative of sacrifice and worship, is very hard to ignore. The actual game isn’t even remotely…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. “The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” (Jawaharlal Nehru, New York Times Magazine, Sept. 7, 1958) Pikuniku, developed by Sectordub and published by Devolver Digital on both the Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam,…
Read MoreReview by Lee F. Mech Rage is a neat arcade title that seems at home on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a top-down shooter with responsive controls where you move from room to room clearing out baddies to progress to the next, collecting currency along the way to change and upgrade…
Read MoreOpinion by Harvard L. Yesterday, in my Smash Bros. burnout, I decided to revisit Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles on the Switch because I thought it would be one that could relax me. Unfortunately, stepping back into Yonder after a break was confusing at first – I dropped into the…
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