Spiritfarer Review: Chilled-Out Emotional Destruction

It’s impossible to not feel attached as you ferry spirits to the afterlife.

Oirbo Alpha Tester!

I took some time out this weekend to play the alpha demo of Oirbo, a hand-drawn platformer that is part of Extra Credits’ Indie-Game Megaphone effort.  I was initially drawn to this project because of the graphics. With all the eye-candy hype of CGI in the world, I am constantly on the lookout for artistic

Everhood Demo Review

Next in our series of selected games from Extra Credit’s Indie Game Megaphone, I’ve chosen the mysterious Everhood by Chris Nordgren and Jordi Roca; a game which promises an ineffable tale of an inexpressible world, played through rhythmic battles. Though I don’t have much experience with rhythm games, this description suggests exactly the type of

Games for the Quarantined

Locked in? Isolated? Bored? Pft, who am I asking? We’re gamers, and if there’s one thing we know how to do, it’s how to have fun in spite of that ray of Spring sunshine sliding in through those closed curtains. The day of the hermit has dawned, and because of that, we’ve decided to take

Everything is going to be OK Review

Everything is going to be OK takes a serious theme and breaks it down into a strange set of base components: cute critters and dark humour. Made by indie game developer, Nathalie Lawhead, it’s an alternative sort of game (Nathalie has mixed feelings on even calling it a game). With no objectives or win conditions,

The Best Games We Never Played

With the end of another amazing year, the media was full of “best of” lists. Television shows we should have watched, music we may have listened to and games we couldn’t miss. However, we live in a virtually interrupted reality…meaning reality and our everyday lives tend to interrupt our virtual playtime. Someone has to be

Saving Star Systems in The Outer Wilds

Lately, I’ve been trying to save the star system. Not the world, not the universe, just the star system. See, I’ve been playing this darling game called Outer Wilds…not to be confused with the other “Outer” game, Outer Worlds. In my hectic and barely-have-time-to-sleep life, I was looking for a game that was slightly more

Working for the Ministry

As a Harry Potter fan, of course I had to try out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite when it became available in the app store. It joins the other two Niantic games on my phone, Ingress and Pokemon Go. I’m a huge fan of the augmented reality (AR) premise: Bringing digital games to the real world