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The March of Giants playtest was cool.
Read more: The March of Giants playtest was cool.The current March of Giants beta ends today at midnight, so if anything in this article seems cool, download it literally right now, because there isn’t another playtest till 2027. I love MOBAs just as much as I love CCGs, and while the two types of games are quite different (real time vs turn based,…
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An Ode to Storybook Brawl
Read more: An Ode to Storybook BrawlIt was announced yesterday that Storybook Brawl will be shutting down at the end of the month. It’s interesting. Storybook Brawl wasn’t the game I thought I’d be writing a retrospective of today. I thought that would be Crimesight, which will shortly share a death day with Storybook Brawl. This won’t be a writeup about…
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Read more: Return of the Obra DinnReturn of the Obra Dinn is a clever, unique idea, executed with distinct visual style and theming. But those three factors clash with each other, and while they do create a unique experience, for me it was primarily one of frustration and exhaustion.
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Don’t Die, Collect Loot
Read more: Don’t Die, Collect LootNote: This writeup is about an EARLY ALPHA. The mechanics are great, but it’s still buggy, lacking content, and polish. And when I say alpha, I do mean alpha. Not “Steam Early Access.” But it’s also the best thing I’ve played this week. Don’t Die, Collect Loot is a combination of Vampire Survivors, and Diablo.…
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Pedigree Tactics
Read more: Pedigree TacticsI’ve been trying to write about Pedigree Tactics for a while. I wrote a few initial drafts, but they all sucked. Perhaps the difficulty is in the fact that I already wrote my review here on Steam. It was fairly critical, noted a variety of difficulties and bugs, and asked the dev to reach out…