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Wild Bastards (PC) – Review

Hailing from Australia, Blue Manchu’s Wild Bastards is the… Sequel(?), successor, continuation, or whatever you want to call it of the studio’s space-based title, Void Bastards. This time set in the Wild Wild Wild West, it is exactly the same in premise…

Infinity Nikki (PC) Review

I was only tangentially aware of the Nikki series before Infinity Nikki was announced. However, as someone who is very particular about armor aesthetics (fashion?) in RPGs, I was immediately intrigued by Infinity Nikki’s concept. Having spent a good bit of time…

Highway Police Simulator (PC) – Review

Newton’s third law of motion said that for every action, there has to be an equal and opposite reaction. My theory is that for every moderately good simulator in a subgenre, there needs to be an equal and opposite addressing to balance…

Luck Be a Landlord (PC) Review

It seems like 2024 was the year of the “Casino Rogue-like” to some degree. Games like Balatro, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers, and other indies put a Rogue-like twist on typical casino games. Released in 2023, Luck Be a Landlord is one such…

Blightbound (PC) Review

When your homeland is cursed by a withering blight, who do you intend to call? Three random adventurers who happen to fit bog-standard RPG character archetypes! Okay, I know that’s nowhere near as catchy as the theme song from Ghostbusters, but it’s…

Crime Scene Cleaner (PC) – Review

It’s not every day you get an email from a known groundskeeper at a cemetery called “Pete” Sutcliffe about the upkeep of your dead wife’s grave. President Studio and PlayWay’s Crime Scene Cleaner is just the latest in the long line of…

Roadwarden (PC) Review

Text-based RPGs have never been “my jam,” as I suspect the youth would say. I didn’t grow up in what I think of as the genre’s “golden age” a few decades ago, so perhaps that’s why I’ve never gone out of my…

Another Crab’s Treasure (PC) – Review

It all depends on your definition of a Souls-like, but Another Crab’s Treasure places itself among the pantheon of imitations despite lacking one of the defining traits of the genre. Released early in the year, Aggro Crab’s second game takes place down…

Wandersong (PC) Review

“Skipper Dan,” a song by “Weird Al” Yankovic, tells the story of a brilliant actor who has always been told he’ll be extremely famous someday. However, because he can’t find any big-ticket gigs in show business, he ultimately ends up working a…

Football Manager 2024 (PC) – Review

Despite storming the field when the team won but wasn’t promoted in 2003, then having season tickets right behind the dugout in the new stadium the year following and beyond, I was never a big fan of whatever you call “the beautiful…