One of the biggest horror franchises in gaming at the moment is Five Nights at Freddy’s. (I know, it’s a surprise you haven’t heard of it…super forced sarcasm…) While known for plenty of scary games that place the player in claustrophobic situations, where you’re forced to fend off multiple killer anomatronics, the games are no…
Tag: Indie Games
Lumara: Demo Review
Lumara is an atmospheric underwater puzzle game where you play as an anglerfish deep in the Bathypelagic Zone spanning 1000-4000 meters deep. No, I’m not smart, the game just told me so. During my 30 minutes with the demo, Lumara explores dark underwater passages, which can be illuminated with her lure, and encounters polluted water…
Well Dweller is Everything a Metroidvania Should Be
Well Dweller is a dark fantasy Metroidvania about a bird named Glimmer who must rescue his family from a wicked queen. I was fortunate enough to get a free Steam key from the developer (thank you!), and I had a blast playing it. The game opens with a bit of backstory about the evil queen,…
Death’s Door: Reaping Souls in a Somber, Yet Strangely Humorous, World
Death’s Door is a challenging adventure game where you play as a crow reaper whose assignment goes awry. In the process, you’re tasked with hunting down three foes who have lived far beyond their years and collecting their souls in order to open the titular Death’s Door. Taking inspiration from retro 2D Zelda games, Death’s…
Exhausted Man: Demo Review
Exhausted Man is a goofy game about an extremely tired man (and a woman for the tutorial) who must get his work done at all costs. The demo took me roughly 30 minutes and was quite entertaining indeed. The whole time, you’ll be slinking around in a boneless fashion, including up walls, as you try…
Satisfying and Sublime: Superliminal
I don’t know exactly what I was doing when Superliminal was first released back in 2019 (probably playing and dropping and loving and hating Fallout 76), but I do remember that it quickly gathered some amount of fame for being a very good and very different puzzle game. For a while after, it was wedged…
The Exit 8 Movie is Repetitive in the Best Way
The Exit 8 is an indie horror game where you’re stuck in an endlessly looping subway corridor. While I never actually played it myself, I did watch someone else play it on Youtube, and it was one of the first anomaly games I ever saw (if not THE first). In this genre, you’re usually tasked…
Moolander: Demo Review
Moolander is about an alien in a flying saucer who must explore a hostile planet and replenish your civilization’s milk supply, as all of their technology apparently runs on milk. While I had initially assumed this would just be a goofy game that would make for a good chuckle or two, I was pleasantly surprised…
Survival and Shopkeeping in Shift at Midnight
Imagine you are an overnight clerk at a convenience store tasked with running the store while saving the world from otherworldly doppelgangers that are bent on causing general mayhem and destruction. Welcome, then, to Shift at Midnight, a new indie title with a retro look and strange appeal that can be played alone or with…
Cato: Buttered Cat: Demo Review
We all know that cats always land on their feet. And buttered toast, well, it always has the unfortunate habit of landing butter-side down. So what would happen if you strapped a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat? Why, you’d get a spinning, flying cat, of course! Cato: Buttered Cat is…