Cat Cafe Manager Review: Feline Good
Cat Cafe Manager is an adorably chill and fun simulation game where you’re placed squarely in the whisker-filled faces of cute cats to befriend while managing a modest cafe.
35mm Review: A Journey To Nowhere
35mm misses the mark when it comes to a survival-adventure experience. The grayscale Russian countryside conveys the lonely brutality well, but it’s not enough to balance clunky mechanics and all-too-similar environments.
Coromon Review: Creature Feature
Coromon is a wonderfully fun monster-taming RPG that draws inspiration from the classic Pokemon series while carving its own path.
A Memoir Blue Review: Just Keep Swimming
A Memoir Blue blends contrasting visuals in dazzling fashion while supporting an emotionally impactful narrative with purpose. While the gameplay fails to deliver on that same notion, Cloisters Interactive’s debut is an aesthetically creative showstopper.
Aztech Forgotten Gods Review: Flawed Tech
Despite a strong score and fantastic mythological inspirations, Aztec Forgotten Gods is a flawed game with uninteresting combat and flat story.
Never Alone Review: A Frigid Trek
Never Alone tells an impactful tale of native culture, delivering an experience that is both unique and influential. Though a lack of stark puzzles and technical bugs does hinder the experience as a game, the alluring narrative is well worth the price of admission alone.
Infernax Review: Hell Cometh
Infernax is a love letter to the action-adventure games of old while simultaneously excelling in the modern definition of the genre. Delivering a balanced experience, Berzerk Studio sticks the landing within the sweet spot between challenge and downright fun.
Grapple Dog Review: Advanced Hooks
Grapple Dog is an accessible, fun, and charming collectathon platformer with a great sense of challenge - but it’s missing a core driving force with missteps in narrative. As a love letter reminiscent of the beloved Game Boy Advanced library, Grapple Dog is worth sinking your hooks into.
Letters - A Written Adventure Review: Pen Pal
5AM Games delivers a fun, concise game where the written words are the puzzles themselves. Explore the wonder of a burgeoning pen pal friendship in the ‘90s in the ever so charming Letters.
Sifu Review: Bite The Hand That Feeds
Between the astonishing aesthetic paired with remarkable sound direction, Sifu is a presentational marvel. But unfortunately, punishing gameplay and overly-complex systems make for an inaccessible and overwhelmingly difficult experience.
Summertime Madness Review: An Exhaustive Summer Day
Summertime Madness is an earnest attempt at making an emotionally appealing puzzle game, but ultimately misses the mark. Beautiful visuals paired with a melodic score unfortunately couldn't elevate the overly bloated puzzles and sterile storytelling.
The Pedestrian Review: Crosswalk The Line
The Pedestrian is a beautiful, well thought out puzzler that nails that mark between a relaxing and challenging experience. Skookum Arts has crafted an experience worth the time of those looking for a beautiful new brain teaser.
Pupperazzi Review: Dogs
Sundae Month successfully grasps what a simple game made to boost one’s serotonin with lovable dogs should look like. If there was ever a game that achieved its vision to the nth degree, it’s Pupperazzi.
Nobody Saves The World Review: Triumphant Transformations
Nobody Saves The World delivers an enthralling experience within a fantastical world of imaginative characters. This is not only Drinkbox Studios’ most ambitious game to date, but is easily the best in their catalog of celebrated titles.
Aspire: Ina’s Tale Review: A Living Canvas
Aspire: Ina’s Tale is a visual showcase of how beautiful games can be, especially on the OLED Switch. However, the occasionally frustrating puzzles resulting in consistent resets or annoying sequences deter from the zen-like experience.
Ever Forward Review: Slightly Backwards
Laying the groundwork for an intelligent puzzle-narrative adventure wrapped within a sci-fi mystery, Ever Forward is quite the heartbreaker. Unfortunately, not in the sense we typically prefer.
Exo One Review: To Infinity and Beyond
With an extremely simple to understand, yet hard to master gameplay approach, Exbleative’s debut proved capable of creating a stunning trance-like experience.
Moncage Review: A Delicate Lens
Moncage strikes a delicate balance in its art, puzzles, and narrative, setting an impressive precedent for perspective art and puzzles alike.
Unpacking Review: Packed Memories
Witch Beam delivers a relaxed and creatively open approach to gameplay, with an ordinary but intimate narrative in a unique fashion. With little-to-no hiccups, Unpacking ultimately succeeds as the accessible, zen puzzler it set out to be.
Treasures of The Aegean Review: An Ark Best Lost
Treasures of The Aegean has a solid vision, but it needs more rounding out to successfully see that vision through. The game's hook almost works, but relies too much on mechanics that are too rough around the edges to be enjoyable.