Unassuming and pleasantly warm, Bart Bonte’s SEO-unfriendly mobile puzzler, yellow (2017), finds joy in simplicity.
Read MoreMake friends with the narrator, search for your life's purpose while wearing a poncho, wade through a depression blizzard, and remind yourself to tell someone you love them.
Read MoreWe can kill the alien, destroy the nest, leave the accursed necropolis behind entirely – but we cannot escape ourselves
Read More“This is what life looks like.”
Read MoreDropsy is a game about making people happy, but it is also one meant to make you happy.
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Killing Time at Lightspeed is ostensibly a game about social media, but in truth, it’s a game about losing touch with the people you care about.
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BUY2BILLIONFOLLOWE is not just what is in the game itself; it’s also what you bring to it.
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Four Sided Fantasy’s genius lies not in understanding how it works but in realizing, as the game progresses, how little you actually do understand.
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Absolute Drift may see drifting as an elevated form of racing, but there is a reason the sport has only ever garnered a niche audience.
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What Animal Crossing excels at so entirely that it is barely discernible, is allowing the player to live their life how they imagined it might be as a child.
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Perhaps it was the secrecy of the demo or that I was starved for new games, but I immediately fell hard for this blue raccoon and his gang of misfit, would-be Robin Hoods.
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Stikbold is the buddy-cop dodgeball epic I didn’t know I needed.
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Dimensions Evolved’s biggest strength is serving as a reminder to what an amazing series Geometry Wars has always been, and providing a reason for people who long ago boxed up their 360 to jump back in and reclaim their spot on the leaderboard.
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Expand is in turns far too subtle for its own good, as what screenshots fail to convey is the elegance and creativity that guides each screen and level of a game that in many ways closer approximates a digital dance.
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Reigns posits a view of politics divorced from context or meaning, where the wants and needs of the public are both all that matters and entirely dismissible.
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Sara Is Missing gets under the skin and inside your phone.
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A delicate balance of the surreal and deeply human, Karambola is a journey to find something resembling an inner peace.
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In a sea of visual novels adhering all too closely to dull tropes and uninteresting conventions, Along the Edge is part of a new breed of interactive fiction rethinking what can be done with the genre.
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Though it shares a kinship with tactics games such as Fire Emblem and XCOM, Tahira is both more restrained and more personal than the genre is often known for.
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Planet of the Eyes is not a response but a reflection; the other side of Limbo’s macabre coin, only fully recognizable when both are placed in context with one another.
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