Celeste is a difficult game about mountain climbing and self-acceptance. Spread across 7 main chapters and 2 optional ones, the gameplay is a mix of fun challenges and pure agony. Though, when it’s all done, you gotta admit that the sense of accomplishment is undeniable. Because ranking things is fun, I decided to rank all…
Tag: Indie Games
Hob: An Open-World Metroidvania About a World Infected by Purple Goo
Hob (or in my case, the Definitive Edition of Hob) is a 3D adventure-platformer of sorts where you explore an alien planet infected with a strange purple goo. The story is told wordlessly through the environment, and the game is completely devoid of music, the ambience being comprised largely of exotic animal noises. The early…
Upcoming FNAF Game Into the Pit Just Got a New Trailer
A new trailer for the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s game, Into the Pit, just released. But in case you’re unfamiliar, how about a bit of background before we dive in? Into the Pit is the first ever official FNAF game based off of one of the stories, this one being a Fazbear Frights story…
Top 10 Creepiest Dredge Aberrations
In a unique little fishing game called Dredge, there’s always this uneasy sense that something is not right. And one of the most obvious examples of this are the aberrations, bizarre and sometimes outright grotesque mutations of normally mundane fish. Having now gotten 100% of the trophies in the main game, I was required to…
Arietta of Spirits is a Pleasant, Streamlined Mini-Adventure
Arietta of Spirits opens with Arietta and her parents visiting the island where her grandmother once lived before her recent passing. It’s not long before she discovers that she can speak to spirits, including her Spirit Guide Arco and her grandmother’s ghost. During her subsequent quest to defeat the Roamers who have overrun the island,…
Dredge is a Seemingly Relaxing Fishing Game with an Eerie Undercurrent
Dredge is an intriguing fishing game where something sinister lurks beneath the surface. Shortly after you are hired as the fisherman for a sleepy little town by the name of Greater Marrow, you soon catch on that something’s not right. People warn you not to go out after dark. The mayor asks you to deliver…
The Gravity Trickster: Demo Review
The Gravity Trickster is a puzzle-platformer where you play as a robot and navigate floating stages to collect keys and reach the exit. The full game is 150 levels, while the demo spans 10 of those. Various hazards include slippery ice, dark levels with low visibility, and electrical panels that appear when you approach. You…
Tetragon: Demo Review
Tetragon is a 2D puzzle game that follows the story of a father looking for his missing son. The demo covers a good handful of these puzzles, all of which take place within a square-shaped space. While your character cannot jump, he can climb and utilize two tools for changing his environment. First off, you…
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is a Beautiful Dream
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince follows three heroes, Amadeus the wizard, Pontius the knight, and Zoya the thief on their quest to find Prince Selius and figure out a solution to the young man’s rampant nightmare magic. The game is a puzzle-platformer, and thanks to each character’s unique moveset, there are multiple ways to progress…
Looking Forward: What do we hope comes of the next ten years in gaming?
We’ve spent the last roughly two months talking about how gaming has evolved over the last decade and how we, as gamers, have changed, as well. A lot has happened in these past ten years, some good, some bad, but one thing is for certain. Gaming is going stronger than it ever has before, reaching…
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