Heidi Hawes
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One of my favorite things about indie games is the amount of diversity and variety between titles and genres. Naturally, certain themes may overlap a bit from time to time, but for the most part, this is the realm in which developers can truly express themselves artistically. That being said,...
The Sojourn
Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a huge fan of puzzle games. This year alone has been an outstanding year for the puzzle genre with titles like Etherborn, Baba is You, and Horace. So naturally when I saw the trailer for The Sojourn from Iceberg Interactive and Shifting Tides, I was extremely eager...
Blasphemous
Metriodvania and soulslike games have become irreplaceable gaming staples, so it was only a matter of time before the two genres were combined. That’s not to say that this marriage of two different gaming types hasn’t been tried before. I only mean to say that there hasn’t been many truly groundbreaking...
Catherine is a puzzle platforming game that was originally released in 2011. It gained a large following and received a lot of praise for its puzzle designs, weird story, mature themes, and the fact it was designed by the same people who went on to design Persona 5. Trying to...
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust has been on my radar for a while now. I played the original Anodyne when it released on PS4 last year. I was drawn to its retro 16-bit design and old school Zelda feel. In fact, the whole of Anodyne could best be described as...
Rad
Who doesn’t love the 80’s? It was a time for big haircuts, big productions, and big changes. RAD from Double Fine and Bandai Namco is a new roguelike with an excellent 80’s feel and the promise of a totally tubular time. But does it manage to be as funky fresh as...
Puzzle platformers are a dime a dozen these days. Typically they have some sort of a storyline, a clear objective, and collectables to pick up along the way. Etherborn, from Altered Matter, throws all of this out of the window and still manages to deliver a solid game.
We’ve all been there. You go out with some friends for just a drink or two and it quickly escalates into several rounds of adult concoctions. You leave the bar with a sideways stumble while you desperately try to wrangle the multiple images into one cohesive scene with your one...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve either seen or at least heard about the show, Stranger Things. The Netflix original series has delighted millions of fans across the world for three seasons now, with at least one to two more on the horizon. It...
Dolphins were my absolute favorite animals as a child. I studied all about the different species, characteristics, and habitats across the world. My love for them was so strong that I wanted to be a marine biologist for a long time. That was until I realized how much I abhorred...
Action/adventure games and puzzle platformers are some of the most popular games in the market. They allow the player to lose themselves in another world for a while and work on solving problems other than how to please a customer or meet a deadline. It’s unfortunate however, that many of...
When I first saw the trailer for Close to the Sun, I immediately thought it was a Bioshock ripoff, despite the developer, Storm in a Teacup, claiming otherwise. It looked almost exactly the same and had nearly the same premise, at least from I could tell in the small bit shown in...
