Game Reviews

Game Title: Biomorph Released:  April 5, 2024 Game Length: 18 Hours Grade:  B Town Skills:  The game begins by having you explore a tutorial area inside the Core before being dumped into an underdeveloped village. Your job is to collect  blueprints  to expand the town for a number of characters you rescue out in the world. These structures start simple to expand your skills and upgrade them. You will earn two different types of currency to upgrade your tools and your abilities. While you can only hold  three chips at a time  to use as weapons, your  mementos  limit can be expanded to hold a number of passive bonuses.  Home:  Your "apartment" is very underwhelming to the point I question why they made you buy little toys and decorations that get placed on the back wall. The only interactable object that you get later on tells you how much of the game you completed and the number of collectibles earned. Once you have recruited a...

Game Title: Divinum Released:  August 28, 2026 Game Length: 8 Hours Grade: A    Gameplay Map:  Although linear at first, the map does give you some wiggle room to explore. There are secret passageways, branching pathways, and plenty of things to unlock. You can place down two markers: a question mark or a rune. Any save point, vendor, or challenge will be displayed. Once you get going, you will be able to travel between the upgrade runes just by clicking on them.  Combat:  The game has a sort of tutorial introduction where you learn the basics: jump, attack, dodge, charge, and parry. As time goes by, you can unlock more abilities to traverse the map with wall climbing and double dashing. Any enemies you defeat will remain gone until you transition to a different region. You must collect the currency that drops unless it touches some spikes. In that case, they will automatically pull towards you. The game permits air time where you can juggle enemies o...

Game Title: Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault Released:  September 2, 2026 Game Length: 40 Hours Grade: A  Route Paths:  There are a total of three biomes with six different locations. You get to choose upwards to three directions on a path to the mini-boss and final boss encounters. The encounters in the rooms can be rather random from multiple waves of enemies to no enemies at all. They are marked to show one or two chests, their rarity, or whether they offer one of two possible damage perks . These perks are  very important  as they are your only means of increasing your damage. They can range from inflicting wounds that deal direct damage or hexes that damage overtime. Each run will have one timed room in order to obtain a bloblet token to adopt a pet and one recipe room for a new furniture to place in your shop. You can obtain a maximum of five at each of the six locations.  Rooms:  There are three specially-marked rooms. The blacksmith modifies ...

Game Title: Fields of Mistria Released:  August 5, 2026 Game Length: N/A Grade: A Challenges Time:  The game has a way to keep you on your toes by putting up a number of obstacles. The very first thing players are going to notice is the amount of time that passes everyday. A standard day lasts  12 minutes and 30 seconds . If you wish to create a more casual experience where you aren't always rushing back home, you can enter your  Accessibility  options and make it Longer at 14-minutes (like  Stardew Valley ) or Longest for 15-minutes   (the fastest setting for  Sun Haven ). You will wake up at 6am, receive a warning at midnight, and collapse at 2am. If you don't reach your bed in time, you will lose 25% of your health and stamina while waking up at a later time of 10am.  Time does not stop inside houses . Time does pause during conversations or accessing storage. Travel:  There are 9 places to visit. One is made special for a festival a...

Game Title: Entropy Effect Released:  February 14, 2024 Game Length: 18 Hours Grade: B   Characters Background:  Are you familiar at all with the BlazBlue franchise? What if you were to take the characters from that series and made a game that revolved all around building attack patterns? You don't need to know much of the story, the characters, or the background since an entirely different team pulled the existing elements of the intellectual property into a glorified test ground. You can play by yourself, with another character next to you, or online with another player. Not all characters are available from the start, but unlocking one of them is as easy as completing a full run or two of the game. Menu:  To access certain parts of the game, you run this little bot around the office. These include setting up the difficulty and character of a run, installing modifiers, accessing small Phenomena  cutscenes from an unusual character, listening to a girl who tal...

Game Title: Doloc Town Released:  August 6, 2026 Game Length: N/A Grade: A Story Characters:  Proti, or whatever name you give your character in the beginning, will be permanent. You are transferred to help a place called Doloc Town after the great robot war. Claud is the Mayor who has been around leading the people ever since the train was stopped in the middle of nowhere. There are four characters that make up a rag-team of defenders:  Orlando  the overzealous leader that still runs the guild alone,  Hult  who is now stuck in a wheelchair after an accident,  Zenis  the tavern maiden, and Ponka who heroically saved the people.  Ponka  is a robot you will hear a lot from the locals who traveled far to keep a secret project intact after the war. You follow the breadcrumbs through many different locations to piece together the  Environmental Modifier  that slightly cleans up the area in small ways so more fish and vegetation can...