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Remothered: Broken Porcelain (PC) Review

Warning: This article contains mentions of transphobia, homophobia, death, and spoilers for Remothered: Broken Porcelain. I’ll confess, before we go any further, that I had to sit with Stormind Games’ Remothered: Broken Porcelain for a while to figure out precisely how I…

Ary and the Secret of Seasons (Switch) Review

Indie platformers can be hit or miss. There are some great ones like Yooka-Laylee, Celeste, and A Hat in Time. However, there are also some less enjoyable platformers made by indie developers. Developers eXiin and Fishing Cactus’ Ary and the Secret of…

Remothered: Broken Porcelain (PC) Preview

Warning: This article contains mentions of transphobia. Full disclosure: I approached the opportunity to preview Remothered: Broken Porcelain cautiously. Having read some of the feedback on its predecessor, Remothered: Tormented Fathers, I had some concerns when it came to whether the sequel…

Ary and the Secret of Seasons (PC) Review

Last month, I had the opportunity to play through the preview of eXiin’s RPG-esque puzzle platformer, Ary and the Secret of Seasons. Having now played through the full game, some parts of my initial experience have very much held up. At the…

Ary and the Secret of Seasons (PC) Preview

Looking at eXiin’s forthcoming new release, Ary and the Secret of Seasons, feels like stumbling into a three-way marriage between Disney, Studio Ghibli, and the Legend of Zelda franchise. I mean that as a definite positive. My early look at the demo…

Skully (PC) Review

As some of you may recall, I wrote a preview of Skully, by Finish Line Games, about a month ago. Having been provided with a review code for the full game‘s release, I’ve been giving it a second, more comprehensive look. The first…

Rock of Ages III: Make & Break (PC) Review

“Gunter glieben glauten globen.” These are four arguably well-known gibberish “words” which, when originally spoken by Robert John Lange, were used as an introduction for the seventh track from British rock band Def Leppard’s 1983 album Pyromania. The album in question is…

Skully (PC) Preview

When I first saw the trailer for Skully, I immediately thought it looked adorable, and was thrilled to have a press build of the first two chapters at my fingertips shortly after. My first instinct was absolutely correct: it is adorable. It’s…

Trine 4 (Switch) Review

When I first started dabbling in PC gaming, my options were limited. I was working with a good-not-great HP laptop, and I found a lot of the things I wanted to play just weren’t going to happen. Browsing Steam for great games…