• Skin Deep

    I like Skin Deep. I like it more than Quadrilateral Cowboy, the previous title by BLENDO Games. I wouldn’t have mainlined thirteen hours of it over two days the day it released if I didn’t like it. If you like weird indie stuff, and find yourself interested by an immersive sim where you save cats…

  • The Player Experience of Puzzles in Blue Prince

    I was gonna put this in my Blue Prince write-up, but it’s kind of its own thing, so I’m pulling it out real quick. While playing Blue Prince I wasn’t hitting the same wall of frustration I’ve hit with other puzzle games like Type Help or Return of the Obra Dinn, or even things like…

  • Do you remember the Ouya? The Kickstarted Android console that cost $100 ($140 adjusted for inflation) and was never a commercial success? The one that released 12 years ago? No? You don’t? Oh. Okay. Well, it was sort of a thing. Not a “thing” thing, but boy did people like talking shit about it, and…

  • FragPunk

    Wikipedia says that Chess has been around 600 years, which coincidentally is the same amount of time I would need to play it to really review it. When a game is popular enough and played at a high enough level, I don’t think there’s much point in critiquing it as tourist, unless you’re specifically trying…