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Cleaning games have exploded in popularity and I am not immune to the dopamine hit of seeing something or someplace once covered in dirt now sparkling clean. Speldosa Interactive’s newest game Muri: Wildwoods provides that same satisfaction and then some. Between the gameplay and the art style, I didn’t want the demo to end. Muri: Wildwoods is a cute cleaning game where I take the role of a cleaner, named Pelle, equipped with a power washer and supported by my friends on Team

In 2022, I took a big step into the future by buying a top-of-the-line gaming PC. In 2025, I took a big step into the past by buying an old CRT from Facebook Marketplace. And now, in 2026, I need to figure out how to connect the two to play Prison of Husks in its ultimate form. I just have to hope that NVIDIA has a component cable driver for their 4000-series GPUs. Prison of Husks is a third-person Soulslike action game, but I was transported by its visual aesthetic even befo

Isle of Reveries is described by developer desertcucco as “Game Boy Color-inspired.” A nod to three very specific Game Boy Color games, perhaps. Isle of Reveries wears its inspirations as plainly and proudly on the screen as the dev does in his name. This is a game that does not so much pay homage to the Game Boy Color era of The Legend of Zelda, but is in loving worship of it. Impressively, it seems to be pulling off its tribute in all the ways that matter most. As young her

From opening grey and white pixels cluttering the screen in a bleak snowstorm, I could feel the weather coming through the soft glow of my monitor. Deep Pixel Melancholy has a self-explanatory title in that way. Within minutes of the game’s introduction, the familiar tedium of routine work settles in. Egor, the protagonist whose story you follow, wakes up in a drafty, cramped apartment. The only luxury is the computer that he scrimped and saved to purchase over the course of

Dust off your college party skills in a game for your life in Death Pong. Following in the footsteps of Buckshot Roulette and CloverPit, I got a taste of a dingy, dark twist of beer pong. In Death Pong, you wake up in a dive bar with a debt to pay. The bartender Gustav offers you an opportunity to clear this debt, but from his glowing eyes to two illuminated counters, things immediately feel off. Death Pong brings beer pong to a digital space, and it’s not easy. You control a