PC Reviews

There’s nothing more gamers love than battling zombies, even if the famous monster has become a tired trend in every media. Even in gaming, zombies feel overly used as an enemy type but often enough,...

One of the perks of being an editor/writer for a gaming publication is you sometimes come across little gems that otherwise would have eluded your radar entirely. These little gems are not AAA titles backed...

It is a common practice in many games, to borrow elements from classic retro titles and format them with shiny new visuals. Even though the sound design resembles something from the 80’s, that is not...

Each Final Fantasy comes with changes that may or may not throw the community surrounding the series into rebellion, as well as staples that fans can expect to find in every game. Every Final Fantasy...

When most people think of video games they think of solving puzzles, killing monsters, building and exploring, or rapid button mashing fighters. What most people don’t think of is cows, crops, or marriage. At least...

Arcen Games’ new downloadable content is here with Starward Rogue AuGMENTED, and it triumphantly marches roguelike gameplay deeper into the next millennium, one where robots and severed heads reign (That’s right, “reign” not “rain”—that would...

Over the past few years, Nihon Falcom (with the help of XSEED Games) has been bringing their library of classic RPG titles to the west and to PC. They began with the Ys series, but...

When Legrand Legacy went on Kickstarter, it somehow flew over my radar. After getting a look at it on Steam, however, I realized that it had the potential to be something I have been waiting...

An ode to the pixels of the past, Sigi - a Fart for Melusina is 20 levels of silly, rude, potty humor fun. The loosely-defined story surrounds a knight named Sigi who can’t seem to...

In an age where indie games used to be regarded as the new kid on the block to now plaguing the Steam library with mediocre titles... those days are over, well at least for a...

My first experience with Valve as a developer was not the Half-Life series like most people. Instead, I got introduced to Valve through the Portal games and found myself really immersed in the idea of...

Yes, the rumours are true. We are back to testing. With portals. And GlaDOS. And… Bridges? Bridge Constructor Portal is a combination of the beloved Portal series and the slightly less known but still loved...

For all the slinging I’ve been found doing at RTS and RPG titles, you may be surprised to learn I actually enjoy both genres thoroughly. I’ve been burning my free time with the help of...

Games with procedurally-generated levels have flourished in recent years, with hits such as Rogue Legacy, Enter the Gungeon, The Binding of Isaac, and more. The technology has been around since the late 70’s, but we...

Sadly, when Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy released back in 2003, I missed out on getting to enjoy it and only heard about how much fun it was from friends who had either played it...

First-person dungeon crawling RPG’s can be hit or miss. Some of them are great, while others are either buggy or uninteresting. Asakusa Studios has created a brand new real-time dungeon crawler that not only provides...

Since the 1920s, likely even before, we've been writing tales of characters who investigate something that ruins the detective by the end. Maybe their lives are trashed by their loved ones getting hurt, maybe they...

In our modern golden age of video game storytelling, I find that RPGs are better than ever. However, in the early 2000’s, the first golden age of RPGs (which started in the early 90’s) had...

EMPYRE: Lords of the Sea Gates is all about water. An isometric RPG, set in a steampunk apocalypse, where the world has flooded and the survivors split up into city-states. Of course, everything would be fine...

Steam has been a perfect platform for Nihon Falcom to release their catalog of games. They’ve released the Ys Series, the Legend of Heroes series, and other games that had not yet made the migration...

2017 has been a year of surprises for me. First, I was taken aback by the beauty and the sheer excellent game design of Horizon: Zero Dawn. Sonic has finally had a great game with...

As a fan of Gust’s RPG catalog, Nights of Azure stood out to me as being a unique action-oriented game unlike any of Gust’s normal offerings. While the original game didn’t exactly hit every mark...

I find myself repeating weird patterns with episodic reviews. I'll start with an optimistic episode 1 review, gushing excitingly about how it seeks to reinvent the genre with its brash new ideas and its unusual...

Yono and the Celestial Elephants had my utmost attention from the moment the menu screen appeared. Colorful, eye-pleasing graphics and a catchy menu theme set the stage for the world I was about to explore....

Upon it's original, Rogue Trooper was considered a defining classic in the action/adventure genre. Many critics and fans express how this cult classic is a game changer and a vital component in the evolution of...

Fighting Fantasy Legends is a computer adaptation of the popular gaming book series Fighting Fantasy.  It's a compilation of three of the FF books; Citadel of Chaos, Warlock of Firetop Mountain and City of Thieves....