By Valeisha Jackson A Space for the Unbound is a small game that gives you big feelings. Yes, it’s a game that touts the relationship between a teen boy and teen girl. But it also shows a rare glimpse of life in the hinterlands of Indonesia. When you add the feelings of woe like anxiety…
By Ronald Gordon Exploration can reward curiosity, or it can punish it. There are many wonderful discoveries to be had in life, but sometimes it’s best for things to stay buried, hidden for eternity. In the case of The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, what you uncover should have never, ever seen the light of day. …
By Ronald Gordon Three years ago, I went on a trip through FAR: Lone Sails. With the help of the trusty and rusty Okomotive, I traveled through a desolate world in search of some semblance of another living person, or at least I thought I did before I realized the truth: that that wasn’t going…
By Makeda Byfield I’m a sucker for mystery. Baldo: The Guardian Owls, recently released on the Apple Arcade, offered tons of it! The adventure game followed a young man named Baldo as he attempted to solve several quests’ throughout his village. What fun! Young Baldo is a chosen kid, and the townspeople need him. The…
By Ronald Gordon You know those dreams you have when you’re sick? Those really weird, increasingly crazy dreams that make you sorry you fell asleep? What if I told you there was a game that would give you that same feeling, of a dream that begins pleasantly enough, but slowly gets more menacing as time…
By Ronald Gordon Sometimes, you discover a game that’s more than just a game. Perhaps it feels like a sort of playable movie, or a story that resonates deeply within you. In the case of Ori and The Will of The Wisps, the game struck me as an interactive work of art. Ori and The…
By Ronald Gordon Ever since I first encountered LucasArts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series, I have been lying in wait, patiently hoping for another quality Star Wars game to rescue me from the boredom of online multiplayer and loot boxes. It seems EA has noticed that I am not alone in this endeavor, as…
By Ronald Gordon Point and click mystery games can be wonderfully strange when they’re done right. That’s especially true if one of the main characters is a deep-voiced teddy bear with a drinking problem and a dark past. Talk about an intriguing twist. Bear With Me is an episodic adventure game series developed and published by…
By Ronald Gordon Throughout my years of gaming, I’ve encountered many different story-driven games. Games such as Galactic Cafe’s The Stanley Parable have an overall narrative, directed at you which is explained in voice-over, which can easily be subverted and overwritten if the player sees fit, leaving the narrator to create a different story from…
By Zante Barker Puzzle platform games have been around since the beginning of history, well, games history. They’ve always been a personal favorite because they’re so challenging and require serious strategizing. Maybe it’s because I like math so much, but give me a good puzzle and I’m super happy. Unravel Two is a double-player…
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