Carto is outstandingly cute, and unlike a lot of Cute™ indie games it’s able to back the cuteness up with incredibly creative gameplay. The plot centers around a little kid who accidentally destroys…

I want to love Graveyard Keeper. I do love chore simulator type games - I’ve put so many hours into Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing and there’s no telling how many big holes I’ve dug in Minecraft…

I meant to write this one MONTHS ago and since then I’ve forgotten most of the things I wanted to say. That said, I think Control was my unexpected fave of 2021. It’s so rare these days that I pick…

This game wasn’t in my backlog, strictly speaking, but I put off getting a copy for a long time so it sort of counts. Either way this game is a blast so I’m going to talk about it.

So I first saw Christmas on the Square over Thanksgiving 2020 and wrote most of the first part of this shortly thereafter, but never posted it. When the Christmas Season came around this year I felt…

Let me get one thing out of the way: absolutely no one was tuning in to Dolly Parton’s 2020 movie-musical Christmas on the Square expecting thought provoking socio-economic commentary. You watch this…

Pyre was made by Supergiant (the studio behind Hades), so I was really looking forward to it, but it hasn’t gripped me as much as I hoped it would. As with Hades, the presentation is top-notch, and…

This is might be the newest game I’ve added the the backlog, but after hearing The Forgotten City be described as “Outer Wilds but in ancient Rome” I just had to check this out. Outer Wilds, but with…