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Interview: Javier Lianes García on Maneki Mania A peaceful Japanese shrine, an adorable lucky cat, and slot machines. That's the unusual combination behind Maneki Mania, an incremental game developed by Javier Lianes García of Lianes8 Studio. What started as a small project for his wife grew into…

Keep Her Safe Review – One Chicken Against the Apocalypse Sooner or later, humanity will collapse. No one's questioning that. But who will inherit the Earth? Now that is the real question! The devs behind Keep Her Safe, the ever-so-talented Gugu Studio, have an idea, and it's a doozy. Keep Her…

Odd Town Review – Plenty of Trouble We strongly believe that some towns are best avoided, and St. Sectaire might be one of them. Odd Town, developed by The Flying Baguette, takes us on a peculiar adventure full of suspicious residents and strange activities. It's an unusual little game, and…

The Fame Game II: L.A. Heartbreaker – Love, Money, and a Very Expensive Lie Like most people, we love watching movies. Playing games is a given at this point, so when we come across a title that combines the two, throws in a bunch of beautiful ladies, and promises an interactive adventure, well,…

Cults, Captives, and Creepy Creatures: Inside the Monster Park Tycoon Demo The playable demo for Monster Park Tycoon has been out for a while, and it gives us a taste of what happens when theme park management is combined with running a secret cult devoted to the Dark Lord. If you decide to give…

A Seagull, a Policeman, and an Unexpected Arrest: Bryan Martinet on Goeland: Seagull Adventure We've already spent enough time with the demo for Goeland: Seagull Adventure to know that the island's residents aren't particularly fond of our feathered troublemaker. We steal things, poke around where…

Dreadline Express Review – A Terrifying Journey Aboard Humanity’s Last Train We've never been on a train, but we imagine being trapped on one with the last survivors of humanity isn't exactly our idea of a pleasant journey. Add to that the discovery that someone must be sacrificed to keep it…

Moonfrost Early Access Review – Building a Better Tomorrow Moonfrost is a charming life simulation that combines farming, crafting, exploration and house construction with a mysterious post-apocalyptic setting. Developed by Oxalis Games, it should appeal to anyone who enjoys games like Stardew…

Cozy Builder Review – Building Our Dream Home If you enjoy building beautiful houses, decorating interiors, and spending time in peaceful countryside surroundings, then Cozy Builder might be right up your alley. Pangea Game Studios is serving up a refreshing and relaxing building simulator that…

Parasited Will Review – An Ambitious Little Action RPG with Rough Edges Developed as a solo project over several years, Parasited Will combines arcade-style fighting, dungeon missions, RPG progression and crafting. We spent around three hours with the PC version and came away with quite a positive…

Tattie Bogle Interview: Talking Scarecrows, Cursed Relics, and Skeletons PineFog Studios' upcoming game, Tattie Bogle, puts us in charge of protecting a farm from hungry pests and supernatural creatures while managing crops, crafting equipment, and building defenses. This unusual mix of farming…

Alpha Nomos Review – A Little Puppet With a Lot of Rhythm Alpha Nomos brings puppet-filled charm, inventive musical combat and roguelite progression together. We review its strengths and repetitive encounters on PC.

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 — The Emperor Has More Work for Us The first Boltgun arrived just as we'd finished reading a bunch of Warhammer 40,000 books, and we were desperately craving more time in that universe. As huge fans of boomer shooters, picking it up was a no-brainer, and we instantly…

YAR: Forgotten Throne Review – An Old-School RPG Adventure Through Slavic Mythology YAR: Forgotten Throne is an old-school RPG that draws inspiration from games such as Gothic and Risen, with a world heavily influenced by Slavic mythology. Developed by Honor Games, this open-world title is quite…

Goeland: Seagull Adventure Demo Lets Us Become a Feathered Troublemaker Ah, seagulls. Who doesn't love them? Well, judging by the locals in Goeland: Seagull Adventure, quite a few people, apparently! We live in a place where we've never even seen a seagull, but it turns out they aren't exactly…

Poly Fighter Early Access Review – Learning a Thing or Two From Every Opponent We love beat-'em-up games like Final Fight, but we've never been big fans of fighting games like Street Fighter. Not because we hate them, but because all those combos can be very intimidating, and try as we might,…

Interview about Doodle, Please! – Drawing Outside the Lines and Letting Players Break the Rules We spent a lot of time doodling in notebooks as kids. We remember drawing strange shapes, little characters, and whatever else came to mind. But what if those drawings could come to life, obeying the…

Deep Dish Dungeon Review – Hungry, Lost and Having a Great Time Developed by Behold Studios, the same awesome team behind Knights of Pen & Paper and Chroma Squad, this charming first-person dungeon crawler combines exploration, survival, crafting and, as if that weren't enough, plenty of cooking…

Dog in the Machine Review – Who’s a Good Boy? In Dog in the Machine, being a good boy apparently involves throwing robots into machinery, causing explosions and making a wonderfully terrible mess. Studio Chahut's turn-based tactical roguelite has plenty of clever ideas beneath its colourful…

Silver Pines Review – Disturbing Town With Plenty of Secrets Silver Pines, developed by Wych Elm and published by Team17, combines the survival horror of classic Resident Evil games with Metroidvania exploration and a generous helping of Twin Peaks. After spending some time with the game on our…

Beyond the Game: Masha Svezhentceva on Burnout, Career Uncertainty and Finding Yourself Again After eight years in game development, Masha Svezhentceva realised that something was missing from her career. As a producer, she spent her days talking to developers, discussing milestones, resolving…

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival Review – What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen We went into Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival thinking about the hours we'd spent with Clive Barker's Undying all those years ago. Silly us. We expected another story-driven horror adventure with plenty of action and a few…

Allogloom Review – A Twisted Fairy Tale Like No Other Allogloom is a wonderfully unusual adventure that takes us into a magical world that seems to have been ripped straight out of an illustrated fairy tale and then dipped in just enough darkness to make us think twice about spending the night…

Draw Whatever You Imagine with Jrake.com Need an illustration or drawing, but lack the artistic talent to create it yourself? We completely understand—our drawing skills aren’t exactly award-winning either. Even if we can't sketch it by hand, we usually know exactly what we want to see. That is…

Toy Story 3 Complete Edition Review – These Toys Still Have Plenty of Life Left We can't believe it's been sixteen years since the original release. A decade and a half of waiting to finally return to another adventure with Woody, Buzz and Jessie. That's what our nephews are saying, not us. Okay,…

Kickstart Your Learning: Explore Free, High-Quality Online Courses with EdX n the past, before the internet brought unprecedented flexibility and online learning opportunities, having the motivation to learn simply wasn't enough. Fortunately, things are vastly different today. If you are looking…

Disney/Pixar Toy Story: Retro Roundup! Review – To Andy’s Room and Beyond! We were just kids when we watched the first Toy Story movie, and over the years, we've enjoyed every other movie featuring Woody and Buzz. Even though we watched the later ones as grown-ups, they still managed to wake up…

Chickenhare and the Treasure of Spiking-Beard: An Adventure Connecting Worlds Developed by Belgian studio N-Zone, Chickenhare and the Treasure of Spiking-Beard is an ambitious action adventure with platforming and puzzles. If you are a universe fan, the world will feel particularly familiar. The…

Dreams of Another: Creation Through Destruction Dreams of Another establishes itself as a deeply philosophical, artistic work, created by renowned Japanese studio Q-Games, known for innovative titles such as The Tomorrow Children and the PixelJunk series. As a third-person action-adventure game,…

Turn Your Old Phone Into a Security Camera With Alfred Home Security Camera Most people have a spare phone or two lying around that they no longer use. Instead of letting them gather dust, you can easily repurpose them into security cameras! AlfredCamera is a fantastic app that you install on both…

Arctic Drive Demo: A Promising Drive Through the Frozen Wilderness As big fans of The Long Dark, we gladly jumped at the opportunity to check out Arctic Drive and take an old car into a frozen wilderness, trying to survive with whatever supplies we can find. Arctic Drive combines driving,…

The Transference Interview: Turning Your Own Home into an Escape Room, with Kuraishisama’s Alex We interview Kuraishisama's Alex about The Transference, its unusual puzzles, stealth mechanics, environmental storytelling, and solo development challenges.

Necesse: An Endless World of Adventure Necesse has been in development for years at Denmark's indie studio Fair Games. At first glance, it might look inspired by Terraria or Starbound, but beneath its charming pixelated graphics, Necesse hides a deep, complex system skillfully combining building,…

Count Your Written Words with Word Counter Every document you write consists of a specific count of words and characters (letters, symbols, numbers, and more). This information is especially useful when you are working under strict writing limits and need precise statistics. Most office suites…

The Trolley Solution Review – A Little Bit of Moral Chaos There's a joke we heard at work that somehow stuck with us. A driver’s brakes completely fail. He has two options: swerve left and hit a group of ten people, or swerve right and hit one guy. He ends up hitting all eleven. Later at the…

Duelist: Idle Expedition Review – Our Little Army Has a Lot of Work to Do Duelist: Idle Expedition is a game, or perhaps a companion app, that lets us hire a small army of fantasy adventurers and leave all the dangerous work to them while we get on with everything else. Our cute little pixel-art…

Earth vs Mars Review: Interplanetary Conflict Earth vs Mars is an interesting experiment from Relic Labs, a smaller division within the well-known Relic Entertainment studio, focused on creating more concentrated, innovative titles outside its usual enormous productions. EvM casts you as…

Record and Share Your Screen Effortlessly with Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder If you ever need to capture specific workflows in your browser or record your desktop activity, we have the ultimate extension for you! Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder allows you to take precise screenshots or…

Why Now Is a Great Time to Play Cairn Cairn has been out for more than half a year, and yet we never had the chance to play it. We watched some reviews and were glad to read how it managed to impress a lot of critics with its touching story and unique climbing mechanics. Weirdly enough, the game…

Four Indie Developers #1: Playtesting, Bad Ideas, Nostalgia and the Things That Keep Games Fun Over the past few weeks, we've had the absolute pleasure of talking to four indie developers about four very different games. We've discussed murder mysteries, anime romance, farming competitions,…

Create Step-by-Step Guides Effortlessly with Scribe We've all been in a situation where we're trying to explain a computer process to someone who just isn't following along. Usually, the best solution is to create a step-by-step visual guide. While there are plenty of tools out there for this,…

Dancing with Ghosts: Finding Joy after Loss Dancing with Ghosts looks like a cheerful, cozy storybook adventure where you get to spend time helping people, making food, dancing, driving a boat and generally being useful around a beautiful little Thai village. Underneath all that, though, there is…

Tooly: The Ultimate All-in-One Utility App In today’s digital age, there’s an app or website for practically everything. The downside? We constantly find ourselves jumping from one tab or application to another just to complete simple tasks. But what if you could access dozens of essential…

Tempest Rising: The Veti’s Wrath Review – Making Excellent Soldiers out of the Dead! When we reviewed Tempest Rising last year, we called it one of the best recent strategy games, and we still stand by that opinion. It reminded us of the good old days of Command & Conquer and Red Alert, when we…

Tempest Rising: The Return of Classic RTS Action in a Post-Apocalyptic World In the near future, planet Earth is tragically devastated by a global nuclear conflict, leaving survivors in an uncompromising struggle for scarce remaining resources and fragile power. Emerging into this post-apocalyptic…

Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster — The Refreshed Chronicle of Gaia The universe of Anima: Beyond Fantasy was originally born through the pages of popular tabletop RPG books, featuring deep mythology and a unique blend of Western gothic fantasy with Eastern anime aesthetics. The digital…

Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush Edition: A Long Road Ahead Between so many great AAA games we had the opportunity to just sit back and relax with our steam deck playing, well, reading primarily a good story travelling across the American Southwest with characters we enjoy being around. Highway…

A Simple Tool for Creating Custom Bingo Cards When you need a break from phones, laptops, and gaming consoles, why not return to classic family games with a fun round of Bingo? Easily Design Custom Cards & Materials This website lets you quickly generate printable bingo cards for any number of…

Sunken Realms Review: Down We Go Sunken Realms is a focused third-person dungeon crawler with roguelite elements. It's a game built around exploring an abandoned underground city, killing monsters, and collecting resources, all while getting stronger and going deeper. There is no enormous open…

Resident Evil Requiem Review: A Synthesis of Fear and Silicon We were never really massive fans of the Resident Evil series. For whatever reason, the constant backtracking, solving puzzles in a suffocating world full of overpowered monsters, and perpetual ammo scarcity simply weren't our magic…