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Game Reviews
Pepper Grinder is a fast, fluid platformer you shouldn’t miss
Pepper Grinder doesn’t need any words. There’s no need for dialogue or instructions because what this game entails is all…
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The Thing board game gives you too many sad, cold, and lonely ways to die
John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing ends with its few remaining characters in a desperate spot. Faced with an alien…
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Kingdom Death: Monster’s massive new expansion is just too much damn work
Kingdom Death: Monster, among the highest-earning crowdfunded board games of all time, is a rare beast in part because of…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 is all about the journey — of figuring out how to even play it
The blemishes of beloved video games are sometimes referred to as their “jank.” The term encapsulates things in a game…
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In Open Roads, you either explore everything or miss out
There are some secrets that feel too big or too painful to share. It’s easier to take on the burden…
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Wyrmspan is basically Wingspan with dragons, and that’s perfectly fine
Unless you’ve actually been stuck outside watching birds for the past five years, you’ve probably heard of Wingspan. This aviary-themed…
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Stardew Valley 1.6 is here to remind you why the game is here to stay
When Stardew Valley first came out in 2016, it was positioned as a Harvest Moon-like. The comparison was the only…
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Unicorn Overlord is beautiful in its complexity
It’s hard to write a review of Unicorn Overlord: the game is big, and after over 30 hours I’ve covered…
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Rise of the Ronin reinvents hack-and-slash in a remarkable open-world Japan
Stalking through the neglected ruins of an empty graveyard, I crouched through a hole in a wall with my katana…
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Princess Peach: Showtime! is everything I wanted in a game as a little girl
If there was one thing I could count on growing up in the ’90s, it was the weekly family trip…
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