Dredge: Demo Review

On the surface, Dredge seems like a relaxing fishing game where you’ve been recently hired as the new fisherman for the coastal town of Greater Marrow.  But something is clearly amiss amongst these idyllic isles when you start to catch strange fish and uncover eerie mysteries, such as tales of a mayor who went insane…

Glyph: Demo Review

Glyph is a rather obscure indie game where you play as a scarab beetle.  The demo covers three stages of increasingly sparse platforms, over which you can traverse by rolling like a ball, jumping up walls, and flying short distances.  You can really pick up speed in this game and cross some mighty impressive distances,…

Ranking the Spirits from Spiritfarer

Spiritfarer is a “cozy management game about dying” where you’ll be ferrying the spirits of the dead to the afterlife.  As such, I formed a very different sort of relationship to these characters than I would in a regular game, and on the most part, knowing that a character is soon to pass on helps…

Spiritfarer: A Poignant Game About Death…and Appreciating Life

Described by the developer as a “cozy management game about dying”, Spritfarer follows the story of Stella, who has been tasked with ferrying the spirits of the dead to the afterlife.  Joined by her trusty cat Daffodil, Stella will be sailing about the ocean, looking for spirits and caring for them until they’re ready to…

Spiritfarer: Demo Review

Described by the developers as a “cozy management game about dying”, Spiritfarer has you playing as Stella the ferrymaster, whose duty is to care for the spirits of the dead before sending them off into the afterlife.  Right from the start, the game is quite a treat for the eyes, with the bright, cartoony art…

Top 5 Best Levels from Kaze and the Wild Masks

Kaze and the Wild Masks is a modern platformer disguised as a retro SNES game.  The game makes little effort to hide the fact that it took clear inspiration from the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy from the 90’s, which many would agree are some of the best retro platformers of all time.  In fact,…

Top 5 Worst Levels from Kaze and the Wild Masks

It’s become quite the trend lately to appeal to one’s nostalgia.  So instead of making photo-realistic games with massive worlds and cinematic cut scenes, many developers are taking the opposite approach and crafting games that remind us of what got us into gaming in the first place.  Kaze and the Wild Masks is one such…

Mythic Ocean: Demo Review

Mythic Ocean takes place in the ocean of a brand new world that you can shape by speaking to the various gods that inhabit it.  The demo took me roughly 40-50 minutes, and during that time, I mainly wandered aimlessly about a few underwater environments that weren’t terribly interesting to explore and spoke at great…

Greak: Memories of Azur: Demo Review

Greak: Memories of Azur is a fast-paced, 2D side-scroller that follows the story of three siblings who are trying to escape from their homeland during the Urlag invasion.  In a manner similar to Trine and The Lost Vikings, you can eventually control all three characters, though the demo covers two, Greak and his sister Adara. …