Considered as one of the first of its genre, Dear Esther started a new wave of first person adventure games. The original PC release of Dear Esther came out some time ago, but now it is out on PlayStation 4. …

With Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, Lizardcube has taken the original Master System classic developed by Whetstone and given it a completely new coat of paint. It’s also, in most aspects, a great way to bring a classic into the …

Cosmic Star Heroine, to put it simply, is a fantastic 16-bit style RPG that shows a clear respect for many beloved JRPGs of that era (Chrono Trigger comes to mind) while never feeling completely beholden to the past. It instead …

Six years after the death of her brother, Edith Finch has returned to the house they, as well as all other Finches, grew up in. Edith, with the recent passing of her mother, is the only remaining Finch left alive …

Where Tetris is a game about meticulously stacking blocks in a straight line, Puyo Puyo (or Puyo Pop as it’s known in the West) puts the focus on sorting colored blobs (i.e. puyos) into groups of four in order to …

Flinthook comes from the Montreal indie studio Tribute. If the studio sounds familiar, it’s probably due to the fact that over the past few years, they’ve released some shining PSN titles, including Wizorb, Curses N’ Chaos, Ninja Senki DX, and …

When I was growing up, I never had the chance to play the original PaRappa the Rapper on PS1. I was a Nintendo kid playing hits like Banjo Kazooie and Mario Kart 64 back then. Even with its re-release on …

Snake Pass offers a unique approach to the collectathon platformers that it’s so clearly inspired by. Instead of jumping around huge worlds as any kind of character with feet, the game instead places you in control of a snake named …

Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call picks up not long after the events of the first game. Sarah Black has returned to her museum and she carries with her some rather hard to believe stories about pirates, curses, …

Diving into Touhou Often times, I like to take on a review for a game or series that I might not be super familiar with. I think a fresh perspective is worth a great deal, and ultimately new things just …