Fall of Porcupine is an adorable game where you play as Finley, an anthropomorphic pigeon and new doctor. Unfortunately, the abrupt ending (or lack thereof) really spoils an otherwise charming and delightful game.
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Review: This Bed We Made
Clean hotel rooms and snoop to your heart’s content. Just don’t get arrested for murder. Short, cinematic, and close to flawless.
Read MoreReview: Backbone
Backbone is a noir adventure game where you play as Howard, a raccoon PI in a world with the gritty atmosphere of Disco Elysium and the anthropomorphic cast of Night in the Woods. This game could have been close to perfect, but instead descends into absurdity and leaves important questions unaddressed.
Read MoreReview: Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One
Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One follows a young Sherlock Holmes as he returns to Cordona, the island where he spent his early childhood. The open-world nature of the investigative work creates a foundation that will sustain gameplay beyond the primary narrative.
Read MoreReview: Life is Strange: True Colors
True Colors is the latest installment in the Life is Strange series and was developed by Deck Nine. True Colors follows a brand new protagonist, Alex, with a brand new superpower— empathy. While there are several areas where I just wanted more out of the experience, I’m still debating if this game might actually be better than the original Life is Strange.
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Review: Call of the Sea
Call of the Sea follows Norah as she follows the trail of her husband’s exhibition to a possibly uninhabited island. It falls squarely into the “walking simulator” genre of mystery/adventure games. The premise is fascinating and I wanted to love the game, but the execution is underwhelming and the experience of playing is unnecessarily frustrating.
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Review: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
A Fumble in the Dark is the long-awaited (by us) sequel to the brilliant supernatural detective comedy point-and-click game starring Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley. The new cases are even better than the first game, but we already gave that one a 5.0/5.0, so the same rating will have to do. From start to finish, this is a thoroughly excellent experience in a charmingly haunted pixel world.
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Review: Twin Mirror
Twin Mirror is the result of mixing the deductive work of Sherlock Holmes, the former mining town from Night in the Woods, and the nightmare sequence from the original Life is Strange. DONTNOD has a history of making some great narrative games, but this one just fell a bit short of its potential. If you’re interested in a returning-home story with a mysterious death and supernatural memory powers, I’d recommend Tell Me Why instead.
Read MoreReview: Tell Me Why
Alyson and Tyler have been reunited to sell their childhood home. As the twins try to re-establish their relationship for the future, they also explore their past and start to unravel what really happened the night that tore them apart.
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Review: Vampyr
Vampyr is an action-RPG where the player assumes the role of Dr. Jonathan Reid, a newborn vampire (Ekon) and well-respected surgeon in 1918 London. The player must balance medical ethics with the need for blood, while also trying to cure London of the latest flu epidemic and solve the mystery of their own transformation. Piece of cake, right?
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