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Resident Evil 7: "Survival-Horror's Back, Baby!"
I used to consider myself a fan of the Resident Evil series, from the slow-paced adventure-style gameplay of the originals to the stronger action focus of the fourth main installment. But ever since...
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SOMA Review: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
"From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very...
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Serious Sam Sucks. Seriously.
Serious Sam hails from 2001 and alleges to be a no-nonsense, to-the-point action shooter that's simply about mowing down hordes of enemies with a full arsenal of machine guns, shotguns, and explosives...
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Resident Evil 7: Banned Footage DLC Review
The first wave of DLC for Resident Evil 7 consists of two separate packs: Banned Footage Vol. 1 ($9.99) and Banned Footage Vol. 2 ($14.99). Each pack comes with two video cassette "flashbacks" plus a...
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Titan Quest: The "Neapolitan Ice Cream" of Action-RPGs
Titan Quest is a hack-n-slash action-RPG based on ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Chinese mythology. It seemed to fly under the radar back in 2006, and yet somehow, for some reason, publisher THQ decided...
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Pathologic: The Marble Nest - Demo Impressions
The original Pathologic, released back in 2005 by Russian developer Ice-Pick Lodge, is one of the most unique and interesting games ever made. I reviewed it five years ago and had a lot of high praise...
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Great Games You Never Played: Wizardry 8
Wizardry 8 is a first-person party-based dungeon-crawling three-dimensional open-world role-playing game. Released in 2001 as the final entry in the long-running Wizardry series (which began in 1981 as...
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Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City - DLC Review
The Ringed City is the second and final DLC for Dark Souls 3, and supposedly the final piece of content that will ever be produced in the Dark Souls series. Its story continues where Ashes of Ariandel...
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The Problem With Open World Games, or "Why Open World Games Suck"
The joint release of Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- two of the biggest and most ambitious open-world games ever made -- within days of each other has spawned a lot of...
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Darksiders: Derivative, Redundant, Uninspired
Darksiders (2010) is essentially the love-child of The Legend of Zelda and Devil May Cry. Picture, if you will, a Zelda game in the vein of Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess, set in modern times...
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Armello Review: A Poorly-Designed Board Game Dressed Up Like a Video Game
Most digital board games are merely adaptations of actual, physical board games; they keep all the same gameplay elements and components of the physical game and simply add a digital interface so that...
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Sucks
Red Faction: Guerrilla is one of the worst games I've ever played. That statement's a bit hyperbolic, I admit, but even when I don't like a game I can usually find some sort of redeeming value, some...
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DOOM 2016: "Holy Hell, This is Actually Good."
The original Doom games from 1993 and 1994 are some of my favorite first-person shooters of all time, but I haven't really enjoyed anything that developer id Software has put out since. Quake (1996)...
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Mass Effect 2 Sucks
The first game I ever reviewed on this blog was the original Mass Effect, back in 2011. You can go back and read the review if you desire, but the whole thing is crudely written and doesn't really...
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This War of Mine - Review
This War of Mine (2014) is a point-and-click resource-management survival-simulator in which you play as a group of civilians attempting to survive as long as possible in a city that's under siege as...
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What I'm Playing: Elex
Regular readers may know, by this point, that I have a fondness for Piranha Bytes, the small German studio responsible for the Gothic and Risen series, with Gothic and Gothic 2 (released back in 2001...
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Beginner's Guide to Elex: Tips and Advice
Helping you get the most enjoyment out of Elex's sometimes rough and daunting beginning.Elex is a third-person open-world action-RPG from Piranha Bytes, a small German studio, that blends traditional...
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Things Gothic 1 and 2 (Still) Do Better Than Elex
Piranha Bytes have been making open-world action-RPGs for nearly 20 years, starting with the first Gothic in 2001, and now with their most recent game, Elex, released a few weeks ago. All of their...
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Why Elex is Better than Skyrim and The Witcher 3
Skyrim and The Witcher 3 are two of the biggest, most popular open-world action-RPGs ever created. Both of these games set a new standard for the genre when they were released in 2011 and 2015, with...
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