The Joy of Creation is a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan game created by Nikson. Praised for its great atmosphere, effective horror, and free-roam environments, the game has since been acknowledged as an official part of the FNAF fanverse by FNAF’s creator, Scott Cawthon. For the franchise’s tenth anniversary, a demo was released for a…
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Unending Aqua: Demo Review
Unending Aqua is another one of those liminal space games that are so popular right now. I have already seen countless games where people explore the yellow hallways of the Backrooms or the tile-covered halls of the Poolrooms, and I was pleased to find a game in the liminal space genre that does something different. …
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…
Darwin’s Paradox! — The Full Review
The following post contains spoilers for Darwin’s Paradox! Proceed at your own risk! Early this year, I played through the “Tactical Action Octopus Demo” of Darwin’s Paradox!, a new platformer from ZDT Studio and Konami. In short, I said then that I thoroughly enjoy what it offers. It feels like it’ll be a great addition…
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…
The Mario Galaxy Movie is a Not so Stellar Sequel
Just a couple years ago, I reviewed Illumination’s first animated Mario movie, the aptly named Super Mario Bros Movie, which was quite a good time indeed. When I heard news of an upcoming Mario Galaxy movie, I was pretty excited. Seeing as the first movie was so well-done, I assumed our mustachioed plumber was in…
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…