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If you believe the intros to their reviews, most of the folks who have been looking at Just Dance 2022 are sedentary endomorphs with multiple left feet, a disinclination for rhythm, and a peculiar unfamiliarity with contemporary pop music. Well, far be it from me to buck the trend. Consider...
Quick, name five really great recent mystery video games. Sure, there are a few, but chances are you ran dry pretty quickly after The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and maybe Wolf Among Us. Maybe you also listed Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, one of Frogware’s better games about the legendary...
My favorite building sim of all time was, and remains, Frontier’s Planet Coaster. It’s a colorful, easy to get into theme park sim that is both immediately rewarding and infinitely deep. When the folks at Frontier announced Planet Zoo I was beyond thrilled, but ultimately disappointed in the final product...
The feeling of true speed is something video games often get wrong. 200 mph should feel completely unhinged. As though every minor correction to your path is riskier than jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Forza Horizon 5 absolutely nails that feeling.
Riders Republic is a sprawling, messy, open world playground, an extreme sports game for the TikTok generation, incredibly ambitious, audacious and pure, fast, fantasy fun. Riders Republic is a land of youthful bodies that can never break, endless trails, perfect powder and energy drink-stoked good times. But will the fun...
Into the Pit
Relentless. That’s the one word to describe Into the Pit. And you know what? If that’s the one goal of the game, Into the Pit is flawless. The speed, the music, the low-fi graphics, the entire experience is designed to come at you, at maximum velocity and full tension. It...
Everyone has fond memories of the Mario Party games. They’re colorful, whimsical, timeless treasures that never fail to amaze and delight the whole family. Except when you get bumped to last place by a garbage dice roll, or one of your treacherous siblings, or the sinister RNG. Actually, most of...
Tandem: A Tale of Shadows is a puzzle-platformer all about light and shadows. You play as two characters, a little girl named Emma and a teddy bear named Fenton who seems to exist in the two different dimensions. They need to constantly work in tandem to help each other progress...
Inscryption
Once upon a time, game developer Daniel Mullins put together a short, rough game prototype called Sacrifices Must Be Made for a game jam. Its combination of charmingly rough graphics, a creative card game, and a deeply disturbing psychological horror story that was slowly revealed over the course of the...
Since the Switch came out in 2017, many fitness games have come out hoping to hit that sweet spot of being a fun game while delivering a real physical workout. The current titleholder in this regard, the game that has come closest to achieving this balance, is still 2019’s Ring...
Hell Let Loose
There are a few situations in life when communication and teamwork are key and it doesn’t pay to be a lone wolf. Commercial airline pilot, for instance. Or NFL quarterback. Tossing a ball downfield or landing a jet can be accomplished by one person, but Hell Let Loose reminds us that...
As horror enemies go, zombies are a little like Taco Bell: ubiquitous, comfortable, familiar, made up of a few ingredients that are endlessly reconfigurable and finally, more than likely to come back a second time and bite you on the ass. Like our beloved fast food chain, zombies have inspired...
