Review: Submerged (2016)

A lot of exploration games exist. Sadly most of them involve facets of gaming that can be a hindrance if not implemented well or play styles that not everyone enjoys. Survival tactics, psychological horror, or incoherent stories tend to be factors. Some exploration games turn out to be nothing more than linear “walking simulators”. That’s […]

Review – Styx: Master of Shadows

Styx: Master of Shadows by Cyanide Studio is in many ways a game that screams out to people like me who fell in love with Dishonored and the Thief series. Focused on stealth with lots of items to steal and many ways to reach the intended destination with a bit of Assassin’s Creed thrown it, […]

Detective Grimoire (Review)

I’m a sucker for detective games as long as they’re not insanely hard. Some games love to stop you in your tracks if you don’t find the most obscure clue. Usually, such games require you to find clues by clicking all over the place hoping that you accidentally click on whatever it expects you to […]

Review – SOL: Exodus

[NOTE: Many of the dings that I originally gave this game were corrected after this article was posted. I hope to give the game a fresh play-through in the near future to update those parts that were changed.  –JB] Approximately 13 years have passed since the 1999 release of Freespace 2, which is considered to […]