Detiled Offers Interesting Puzzles
The Time Waster this week is an interesting puzzle game called Detiled that challenges the player to complete levels while the floor disappears behind them.
Category Archives: Reviews
Mutant Year Zero Brings Charm and Combat
Based off a Swedish role-playing game, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden combines darkly comical characters including a mutant pig and a duck, with turn-based tactical combat and exploration. It’s a little rough, but still a gem.
Brilliant Battling with Renegade’s Tale
One of the best military fiction type space opera books our reviewer has ever had the pleasure of enjoying, Renegade by Joel Shepard focuses on the crewmembers doing the actual fighting in a massive war.
Dreaming of Old Style Point and Clicks
Lucid Dream follows a depressed little wheelchair-bound girl as she struggles to escape her dreary world though a series of colorful dreams. But this classic take on point and click adventures may not be everyone’s cup of tea.
Running into the New Year with Taiga Escape
The Time Waster this time around is an endless runner game called Taiga Escape that Billy can’t help but feel should of been an adventure game.
Spyro Gets his Groove Back in Spyro Reignited
Those of you obsessed with Spyro back in 1998 are going to love the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which takes our beloved dragon on beautiful adventures. Featuring the voice of “Sponge Bob Squarepants” Tom Kenny, everything about this pack of games is pure quality.
Super Spying with the Nomad Novel
Author James Swallow is the writer of The Latter Fire, one of the best Star Trek novels that we have ever reviewed. Now he turns his attention to spy thrillers with Nomad. Packed with the same thrills one might expect from a blockbuster movie, Nomad is predictable but fun.
Classic Dragon Quest JRPG Reborn in Fine Form
A perennial favorite in Japan, the Dragon Quest RPG has never been hugely popular in the west. That should change with Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, a title that is as good, and equally beautiful, as any turn-based RPG that you will find.
Celebrating Christmas with Winterberry
The Time Waster this week is a game called Winterberry that is all about getting a bear fat enough to survive through the winter.
Effervescent Eevee Enhances Pokemon Franchise
Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! harkens back to the good old days of Pokémon Yellow. It has all of that same, classic gameplay, but with a modern take on the plot and story. And when combined with a Pokéball, it enhances the gameplay even more.