Brigador: Great Leader Is Dead, Solo Nobre Must Fall
A tactical mech game where you flatten a neon city block by block, and the city remembers. Steep learning curve, excellent synthwave soundtrack, very satisfying once it clicks.
Steam · 29 hrs
From the game shelf
Game Reviews.
Games I've sunk real hours into, and what I thought once the credits rolled (or didn't).
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Honest takes on games I played long enough to have an opinion.
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Newest first · 1 / 3
Wobbly Life: Getting Kicked Out by Grandma Never Felt So Fun
A cheerful physics sandbox where you deliver pizzas, fight fires and dig up treasure instead of stealing cars. Proof that chaos doesn't need violence.
Steam · 31 hrs
Star Trek Online: War Is Good for Business
The most authentic Star Trek game around, stuck inside an aging MMO that really wants your money. Great ship combat, rough everything else.
Steam · 47 hrs
The Big PS4 Games Still on My List
My PS4 shelf is full of indie shooters and metroidvanias, which means I skipped a lot of the console's big games. God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro and the rest of the list, and a sensible order to tackle them in.
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The PlayStation shelf · Note 5 ↗
Every Zelda You Can Play on a Switch, and Where to Start
The Zelda games you can play on a Switch or Switch 2, whether they're a full release or part of Switch Online, roughly how long each one takes, and the order I'd suggest for a newcomer and for someone who's played a few.
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Games and gear · Note 15 ↗
Human Fall Flat: So Much Fun Failing Basic Motor Functions
A physics puzzle game where you control each arm separately and fall off almost everything. It's best with friends, and it's funny every single time.
Steam · 52 hrs
Rain World: Life Is Hard When You're a Slimy Little Guy
The most beautiful way to suffer ever made. Rain World will break your spirit, then slowly teach you how to survive in a world that doesn't care if you do.
Steam · 114 hrs
Balatro: Just One More Hand
What if poker was actually fun? A roguelike deckbuilder about building ridiculous hands and watching the numbers go into scientific notation. It will eat your evenings.
Steam · 26 hrs
Animal Well: 34MB of Pure Magic
A tiny download that holds one of the densest, most rewarding exploration games I've played. It keeps going deeper, and deeper, and deeper.
Steam · 13 hrs
The PS4 Was Quietly a Great Shoot-'Em-Up Console
More than a third of my PS4 collection turns out to be shoot-'em-ups. Arcade ports, M2's careful reissues, modern indies and twin-stick shooters, and how a console known for big cinematic games ended up with a shmup library this deep.
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The PlayStation shelf · Note 4 ↗
Marvel Rivals Stands Tall in Overwatch's Shadow
A free hero shooter with a huge roster, team-up abilities and a real sense of polish. It doesn't reinvent the genre, but it does the familiar stuff really well.
Steam · 78 hrs
Gorilla Tag: My Furniture Evolved, but Backwards
A VR game of tag where you move only by swinging your arms. It's brilliant, it's exhausting, and your furniture will not survive it unchanged.
Steam · 173 hrs