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…
By Ronald Gordon You’ve heard about the horror that was the Black Death. But what if you could experience an alternate narrative of life during the plague? A Plague Tale: Innocence is a stealth-based adventure game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive. Here, you play as a young girl named Amicia…
By Ronald Gordon Many of us want to travel far and explore the world. When I can, I enjoy getting out of the city during vacations, and I always come back feeling good that I actually went somewhere different. But vacations are rarer than ever nowadays. So it’s time to ask the question, why not go…
By Ronald Gordon It’s back! In Far Cry New Dawn, the post apocalypse returns in a world where “power is the only currency.” This action-adventure/first person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal takes place after the events of last year’s Far Cry 5 in a place called Hope County, a lovely, bucolic area that managed to survive…
By Ronald Gordon It’s what I like. Of all the games I’ve played throughout the years, I repeatedly find myself drawn toward the genre known as adventure games. Something about stepping into a new world and exploring what it holds really draws my attention to the point where if an adventure game is good enough,…
By Isaac Espinosa It’s not just a rhythm-based music game. So get ready. Combat is key as you travel through many worlds that will appear somehow familiar to gamers. Old School Musical, developed by the indie developer La Moutarde and published by Playdius, sports an upbeat soundtrack and an intense rhythm system. The game keeps…
By Ronald Gordon Not many point and click games grab my attention but there are some that I come across that really catch my eye and draw me in with their stories. The Journey Down is one of those select few that I actually played all the way through. The Journey Down is a three-part…
By Kimari Rennis It’s got that necessary dash of mystery. But it’s much more. Unforeseen Incidents is a 2-D point-and-click adventure game that requires you to collect items throughout your environment to solve puzzles. The game is one of a kind with its music, characters and atmospheres that players feel encouraged to jump into and engage…