Mina the Hollower Review
- Wed, May 27th 2026A Strong Spark of Life I can imagine the disappointment that Yacht Club Games felt when they couldn’t release this in October 2025, because Mina the Hollower is rife with Halloween spirit! The...
LumenTale: Memories of Trey Review - A Tale Worth Remembering
- Tue, May 26th 2026The Monster Tamer genre has seen quite the renaissance lately. New games are being released all the time that experiment and explore the time tested mechanics of the usual turn based RPG formula....
Bubsy 4D Review - The Cat Is Back!
- Thu, May 21st 2026You know that saying “That wasn’t on my bingo card” whenever something surprising and/or shocking happens during a year? Well, I’m pretty sure a new Bubsy game wasn’t on ANYONE’S bingo card for 2026...
Seth Review - Become a God, for a Limited Time
- Wed, May 20th 2026Embody a disgraced Egyptian god of chaos, grab a shotgun, crossbow, or rocket launcher, and wreak havoc on a legion of Apophis’s evil-doers in this short but well-done boomer shooter roguelite by...
Adorable Adventures Review - A Complete Cozy Animal Experience
- Tue, May 5th 2026Adorable Adventures only needed one static image to pull me in. That picture of a baby boar, sitting there wide-eyed and ready for adventure had me hook line and sinker. Upon further digging, what...
No Stone Unturned (Early Access) Review
- Sun, May 3rd 2026No Stone Unturned is hard to describe, but I’ll try my darndest to by saying it’s a comedic dialogue-fueled fever dream filled with a variety of minigames, chase sequences, and adventurous sleuthing...
Neopets - Mega Mini Games Collection Review
- Wed, Apr 29th 2026If you’re a millenial, like me, or have a thing for experiences and games that give a dose of nostalgia, like me, then you’re probably at least aware of the existence of Neopets as a brand. Founded...
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire Review
- Mon, Apr 27th 2026Whenever a game finally comes out after what feels like years of delays, the fear of it not living up to the hype it generated is warranted. While some games are able to live up to the hype and...
GEX Trilogy Review - It's Tail Time!
- Fri, Apr 17th 2026The folks at Limited Run Games are back at it reviving our childhoods again! This time, the amazing folks brought back another forgotten icon from the 90’s in the form of the Gex Trilogy and unlike...
Cozy Sanctuary Review
- Thu, Apr 16th 2026We like cute things around here. So when we have the opportunity to start a community of precious animal cuties along the bottom of our screen, we take it. That’s what we got from Cozy Sanctuary, a...
- Written by Zamir Twiggs
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A Strong Spark of Life
I can imagine the disappointment that Yacht Club Games felt when they couldn’t release this in October 2025, because Mina the Hollower is rife with Halloween spirit! The colors, music, creatures, and environment embody the month of ghosts and ghouls. When entering a major province, a beautifully animated still showcasing the region, with our titular rodent heroine grimacing at the distant tower, became the cue to tighten my belt and get ready for the real journey. It gives the locales an episodic quality. Sean Velasco of Yacht Club Games admitted that where Shovel Knight was their Mario, Mina the Hollower is their Zelda. I think it lives well beyond the visage of Zelda, because Mina’s adventure feels like a top-down Castlevania with creatures and mundane and supernatural weapons, and twists that culminate in a world of monsters and a civilization that’s both familiar with the danger but unprepared for it. There are larger species on Tenebrous Isle, so being the smallest species leads to harrowing encounters with monsters and denizens.
- Written by Brandon Billingsley
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The Monster Tamer genre has seen quite the renaissance lately. New games are being released all the time that experiment and explore the time tested mechanics of the usual turn based RPG formula. Games like Doki Monsters evoke nostalgia while games like Cassette Beasts bring with them unique and innovative concepts. So what happens when you have a game that manages to do both? You get LumenTale: Memories of Trey. Developed by Beehive Studios and published by Team17(the same publisher who gave us the impressively well made Date Everything and Amber Isle), LumenTale is poised to make its debut and I couldn’t be more excited to share my thoughts on it. This is one game I'm going to be playing for a while.
- Written by Sean Phillips
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You know that saying “That wasn’t on my bingo card” whenever something surprising and/or shocking happens during a year? Well, I’m pretty sure a new Bubsy game wasn’t on ANYONE’S bingo card for 2026 but here we are with Bubsy 4D! The first fully 3D entry since Bubsy 3D - a game I do not think was as bad as everyone made it out to be - and coming from the talented folks over at Fabraz who created the Indie hits Demon Turf and its sequel Demon Tides; two games I will freely admit I’ve yet to play and are now in my list of games to check out (I’m never going to get through this backlog, aren’t I?). Did Fabraz make a paw-some game that breaks the so-called ‘Bubsy Curse’? In short, yes they did as Bubsy 4D is paws-itively paw-some!
- Written by Joshua Wyld
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Embody a disgraced Egyptian god of chaos, grab a shotgun, crossbow, or rocket launcher, and wreak havoc on a legion of Apophis’s evil-doers in this short but well-done boomer shooter roguelite by newcomer developer Chaotic Games. When you pick up a game like Seth, you’re hoping for a tightly-executed gunplay experience paired with a growing set of challenges that reward learning how to best take advantage of your combat options, along with the roguelite element encouraging additional playthroughs. Seth executes the gameplay aspect quite well, but left me wanting more in regards to content after finishing my first couple runs. That’s a credit to how fun blasting through the rounds of enemies was in the dark, techy Egyptian surroundings the game takes place in.
- Written by Joshua Wyld
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Adorable Adventures only needed one static image to pull me in. That picture of a baby boar, sitting there wide-eyed and ready for adventure had me hook line and sinker. Upon further digging, what sat behind that big snoot of his was a gaming experience like no other, and one that shows what a little precious idea can become with time, love, and a developer that doesn’t leave any part of the playing experience unpolished. What starts off as a simple gathering quest quickly becomes one fantastically pleasing romp through an amazing nature wonderland.