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Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard review – A hoot of a pixel art animal adventure
Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard might be the best point-and-click adventure game about animals ever made. And with a little more playtesting, the ‘about animals’ qualifier might not even have been necessary... Read more
Blood Nova review – Lore-filled sci-fi that's hard to fully love
Blood Nova asks us to assume the role of an unlovable protagonist who spends a good deal of the befuddling lore-bloated adventure acting like she doesn’t care. Which, for the most part, is how many a-player might feel too... Read more
The Rewinder – Ancient Chinese side-scroller is not to be overlooked
Authentic, different, imperfect, but very good. If you’d like a break from questing in the usual sort of places with the usual sort of suspects, give The Rewinder a try. Sometimes it will frustrate you; more often it will wow you, in ways that few others ever do... Read more
Return to Monkey Island review – A treasured comeback for Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman
Questions of where it ranks in the series pantheon ought to be irrelevant: Return to Monkey Island is both an excellent adventure game and an excellent Monkey Island game – and that means it’s a treasure... Read more
Lucy Dreaming review – Don't sleep on this hilarious point-and-click pixel art adventure
Lucy Dreaming is so good that if it had been presented as a lost Schafer/Gilbert/Grossman collaboration from ’95 that was excavated and polished off for a quarter-century-late release, I’d half-believe it... Read more