Reviews
Space Chef Review
Jan 02, 2026
Space Chef is a cozy sci-fi cooking game that distinguishes itself through mechanical depth and player-led exploration. Set across a sprawling galaxy, the game tasks players with preparing meals for a wide range of customers, blending traditionally relaxing cozy-game sensibilities with layered systems involving exploration, crafting, combat, and light management. While its execution isn’t without friction, the overall experience is fun and engaging.
The Jackbox Party Pack 11 Review
Dec 31, 2025
The Jackbox Party Pack 11 continues the series’ tradition of fun and exciting party games while experimenting with genres. Rather than relying on a single endlessly replayable hit, the pack presents a varied lineup that spans writing, drawing, social deduction, sound-based performance, cooperative trivia, and RPG-inspired teamwork. Strong writing, confident voice acting, and polished presentation anchor the experience, even as individual games differ widely in tone, energy, and replayability. The result is a collection that feels both familiar and exploratory, one that may not land equally for every group, but consistently delivers exciting party-night experiences.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0 Review
Dec 29, 2025
I do find interesting how not only I, but a lot of us “perceive” certain games and define them to a specific season of the year. RPGs, for instance, are “winter games” to a lot of my friends. I live in the southern hemisphere, so the concept of winter is one I don’t entirely grasp. It doesn’t snow in my city, and when it gets cold, it’s mild at best. Not counting the fact that December equals summer, which means extreme temperatures. It was the month that I opted to, instead of being on the beach or near the ocean, my last weeks of 2025 were spent exploring every nook and cranny of Octopath Traveler 0.
The Sims 4 Bikini Bottom Bundle Review
Dec 10, 2025
What the barnacles?! SpongeBob Squarepants and Sims bring together fans of all ages who enjoy the pineapple under the sea, including myself, to the game to make rooms look like Sims live in SpongeBob! The Bikini Bottom Bundle consists of SpongeBob’s House Kit and SpongeBob Kids Room Kit. Growing up watching almost only SpongeBob Squarepants, the show has my heart and the pack exceeded expectations.
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion Review
Dec 01, 2025
What Tribute Games did for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, they’ve done again for MARVEL Cosmic Invasion. This means they’ve captured nostalgia of retro beat’em ups and have brought them into modern era to feel fresh and exciting. This all-new adventure is a brawler with depth and a character roster you can’t help but marvel at the selections made. Tribute Games lives up to their name and pedigree with MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, another fantastic game that’s not to be missed, even this late in the year.
Project Motor Racing Review
Nov 25, 2025
Project Motor Racing is the newest simulation Straight4 Studios, a studio composed of simulation racing development veterans. There’s a healthy amount of cars, classes, and tracks that will offer hundreds of hours of racing both online and off. It’s a game that exists in a space of unadulterated realism and professionalism to motorsports, but manages to be an unexciting debut from Straight4 Studios. Project Motor Racing is focused so hard on the gameplay, that everything else feels like an afterthought.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review
Nov 21, 2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 takes the series back to the future, but it’s haunted by past mistakes. As the follow-up to last year’s Black Ops 6, this shreds all good will it earned. It feels very much the disaster that was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III in 2023, a game marred by baffling decisions and execution is like déjà vu here. From its online-only campaign that’s not single-player, to another lackluster zombies mode, to an uninteresting multiplayer suite on autopilot, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is a game that barely resembles its namesake that’s so forgettable.
Where Winds Meet Review
Nov 18, 2025
The first piece of information I got about ““Where Winds Meet”” was: “You can throw a bear into a rock”. From that moment on, Everstone Studio and NetEase games project was on my radar. Being able to throw a bear, Wuxia combat, and a cool world to explore? Sounds like a dream come true. After putting a couple of dozen hours on it. Some of it did indeed became true, the rest…well… it’s complicated.
ARC Raiders Review
Nov 13, 2025
Embark Studios is made-up of former DICE developers, and it shows. First, THE FINALS offered us a game show style first-person shooter with destruction that Battlefield lacked, up until the recently released Battlefield 6. Now we have ARC Raiders, a game that started as a PvE-only game, now a PvPvE extraction shooter that should have you every bit excited as the hype around it leading up to launch has been. Extraction shooters is an emerging sub-genre of shooter that have seen their fair share of Escape from Tarkov clones and many unique attempts that just could not find an audience for one reason or another. Embark chose to carve a new path by making a third-person extraction shooter that bears similarity in structure to Tarkov, but decidedly goes in the opposite direction of nearly every design decision to be something memorable and truly outstanding. If you were looking for THE extraction shooter to try and hope to stick with, ARC Raiders is it.
NASCAR 25 Review
Nov 11, 2025
It’s been a few years since we’ve had a NASCAR game, let alone a good one. NASCAR 21: Ignition, released in October 2021, was the last entry for a NASCAR game outside of the Nintendo Switch releases of NASCAR Heat Ultimate and NASCAR Rivals. If you go back and read my review of NASCAR Ignition, it wasn’t exactly favorable. The driving physics were solid, but the lack of a meaningful career mode left it feeling hollow. Four years later, the series has a new publisher and developer: iRacing. Yes, the hardcore sim veterans have taken the wheel with the official NASCAR license. But does iRacing’s pedigree translate into a better console experience?
Little Nightmares III Review
Oct 31, 2025
If the last two decades have shown us anything, it’s that Gamers™ love a good sequel. Which is actually true, most people who play video games enjoy quality follow-ups to games they liked playing. It’s also true that risk-averse publishers love to push sequels out the door because they’re safer bets and people will probably buy them anyway, usually. So here’s Little Nightmares III, the unexpectedly risky third installment in a beloved series, given that it’s made by a new studio and that it adds cooperative play, and you would be right to wonder which type of “good sequel” this one is.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Review
Oct 30, 2025
When Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection was announced, I was excited. It had been over a decade since the last time these games saw the light of day with the release of Mortal Kombat HD Kollection which I reviewed back in 2011, but those were problematic releases plagued with online latency, input delay, and poor sound emulation. This new collection was going to be done by Digital Eclipse who had just come off the fantastic Atari 50 and The Making of Karateka, both collections which I enjoyed and felt set a high bar as definitive collections for those respective set of games. This new collection includes the staples which have been previously released– Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Arcade. But goes beyond previous collections by going deeper into the library and also includes hours of new documentary footage. There is a solid foundation here with the essential games that you would expect, and emulated at a much higher quality than previous releases. However, barebone launch features and missed opportunities hold it back compared to modern collections like Capcom Fighting Collection 2.
Slime Rancher 2 Review
Oct 28, 2025
Slime Rancher 2 gives the feel of a sequel to an established game where things are just bigger and better, but under the hood really seems to change the protagonists and the player’s reasons for hunting those slimes. I felt comfortable with the game, but yet always seemed distant from the gameplay loop. Kind of like coming home from college after a year or two away. Everything is very similar and comfortable enough to slide back into. However, there are just enough small changes to the core of the everyday that make you feel like you don’t really fit anymore. Slime Rancher 2 is on the surface more of the same just slightly askew at times.
Wreckreation Review
Oct 27, 2025
Three Fields Entertainment consists of less than ten people, key folks at Criterion, who went on to forge a new path for creating arcade racing games. After several Burnout-likes, the trend continues with Wreckreation, a game that nearly recreates the open-world format and feel of Burnout Paradise, with a twist. Wreckreation does give you the power of creation to make the world something yours. Being able to plop down ramps, loops, and tons of items, this really becomes a racing adventure park only limited by your imagination. Creation is not mandatory, though it is an additive experience along with the hundreds of races and things to do. Not everything in Wreckreation comes together like it should, but when it works, it’s a smashing delight.
The Outer Worlds 2 Review
Oct 23, 2025
It’s hard to believe it’s been six years since the release of The Outer Worlds, and it became one of my favorite RPGs in recent years, until now. The Outer Worlds 2 addresses nearly all the shortcomings of its predecessor. Planet surfaces now feature bigger play areas and more places to explore, weapons are varied and more fun to use, and choices are bountiful and more significant. Obsidian Entertainment has crafted a game that feels like it has existed before you, and will continue to long after you. The Outer Worlds 2 it’s an expansive game that puts the “role-playing” of this RPG in the forefront that will excite many, and satisfy even more.
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