Category Archives: Game Reviews

Continuity

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Meg

“Easy to learn, hard to master” is usually considered the gold standard for a casual game. The more time new players must spend, learning how systems and items work, the less casual and accessible the game is. (I love a … Continue reading →

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Shades of ‘Grey’ and Rainbow Colors

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Meg

Grey, from Kevin Does Art,  is a little platformer in a grey world. I’m not great at platformers, well, actually, that’s an understatement, but I tried to overlook my general dislike of platformers when I checked out this game for … Continue reading →

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The First Hero: Saving the World on a Grecian Urn

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Meg

The First Hero, from BeGamer, is a short point-and-click adventure about a young champion on a Greek urn, I mean, a young champion in mythical Greece. You’re not, as far as I could tell, any particular mythological hero, just a young champion … Continue reading →

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With Those We Love Alive

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Meg

his is a screenshot, of sorts, from Porpentine’s With Those We Love Alive.  I discovered this game through friends on social media sharing photos of their own symbols. I immediately wanted to play it, but put it off until I … Continue reading →

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The Screaming Narwhal

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Meg

Telltale Games’s Tales of Monkey Island, not to be confused with the LucasArts updated re-release of the original stories, is an entirely separate adventure in the ongoing saga of Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate. The first episode, Launch of the Screaming Narwhal: … Continue reading →

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Quing’s Quest VII

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Meg

I checked out Quing’s Quest VII the other day, originally for work, but I quickly realized it was too full of mature themes and games industry snark to be good for the kids. The entire game is a parody, in which my genderqueer sidekick, … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea at SXSW’s Screenburn

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Meg

Deep Sea, Robin Arnott’s terrifying sound-based undersea adventure pushes boundaries between game and interactive experience. Sure, there’s combat, a battle between the player and some sort of killer leviathan, but the focus is much more on an experience than a … Continue reading →

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Robots Need Love Too

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Meg

Robots Need Love Too is an iOs puzzle game about two lovestruck robots from Elephant Mouse. In the beginning of Robots Need Love Too, you can choose names, gender, and preferred pronoun for your romantic robots. In addition to the … Continue reading →

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No Pineapple Left Behind

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Meg

Seth Alter, from Subaltern Games, has a released a trailer for upcoming indie No Pineapple Left Behind, a single-player PC game around education reform. (Seth’s the  developer of serious strategy game Neocolonialism and was also kind enough to do an … Continue reading →

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Block, Block, and Block

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Meg

I tweeted my link to my Depression Quest review the other day, and accidentally walked into the Zoe Quinn Twitter battle. I try to tweet my games journalism multiple times, because I’m a narcissistic attention whore, or working freelance writer, tick where … Continue reading →

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