A cropped screenshot from Varney Lake. Three kids are sitting on an abandoned car. The one of the left is sitting on the hood and has short, curly hair, glasses, and is holding a flashlight. The one in the middle is sitting on the roof; she has long dark hair with a headband, and also a flashlight. The third is laying back on the hood on the right.

Review: Varney Lake (PC)

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I love a good spooky story; it doesn’t have to have jump scares, it just has to be deeply, deeply unsettling. That’s the kind of story told in Varney Lake, the second in a trilogy of Pixel Pulp games. I reviewed the first game, Mothmen 1966, about a year ago.…

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A screenshot from Wylde Flowers. Gramma and Tara are standing next to a well, talking.

Review: Wylde Flowers (PC)

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I’m going to start this by being very upfront: before playing Wylde Flowers for PC, I played it through on Apple Arcade. Twice. I legitimately spent dozens of hours in the cozy world created by Studio Drydock. Despite that, after booting the new Switch version up and seeing the camera…

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Four mothmen perch on top of a gas station. Three are flying nearby. Victoria says "listen..."

Mothmen 1966 is the first in a series of pulp fiction titles

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I have a preferred list of supernatural entities: ghosts, cryptids, aliens. Sometimes they get mashed together, as it happens with the Mothman; he is thought to be an alien creatures who either warns of or creates catastrophic events. Developer LCB Game Studio and publisher Chorus Worldwide have announced Mothmen 1966,…

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