video games allow me to inhabit exciting roles that I’m denied by the natural order of humdrum existence. In the case of Aven Colony, the promise is to run a colony on an alien planet. Frankly, unfettered power and exotic discoveries sound like my [...]
A geomagnetic anomaly has plunged the world into darkness and rendered all technology useless, including the plane you were flying over the vast, frozen wilds of Canada. You awake surrounded by flames and wreckage—badly injured and freezing to death—and [...]
Hey! Pikmin Score: 7.0 Platform: 3DS Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Arzest Corporation Release Date: 2016-07-28 Trranslating a 3D series into a 2D puzzle-platformer is a big risk, and it’s easy to imagine the result feeling like a watered-down spinoff at [...]
Pyre Score: 9.0 Platform: PS4, Win, Linux Publisher: Supergiant Games Developer: Supergiant Games Release Date: 2017-07-25 Pyre is, I feel comfortable saying, unlike anything I have ever played before. There are connections to developer Supergiant Games’ [...]
Drifting somewhere between the Earth and the Moon, the lunar transfer station Tacoma lies empty and abandoned. An incident has forced the crew to evacuate and you, Amy Ferrier, have been sent to investigate and recover its omnipresent AI, Odin. But even [...]
I admit, that doesn’t have nearly the same ring to it as my planned proclamation: “Just like INSIDE, only scarier!” And indeed, a full fifth of the way through Tarsier’s macabre thriller, the similarities to Playdead’s acclaimed side-scroller were so [...]
Dino Frontier (PlayStation VR [reviewed on PS4 Pro]) Developer: Uber Entertainment Publisher: Uber Entertainment Released: August 1, 2017 MSRP: $29.99 My enthusiasm did eventually ease up as I reached the conclusion, but Dino Frontier is an all-around [...]
Tacoma, the newest game from Gone Home developer Fullbright, tells an intimate story about characters who aren’t actually there. Like Gone Home, Tacoma weaves a complex narrative, but it goes beyond the scope of its predecessor by aiming to tell [...]
