All of the hullabaloo around Cyberpunk 2077 put me in the mood for some lowercase-C cyberpunk content so I booted up the original Deus Ex. If you aren’t familiar with Deus Ex, it’s a game from 2000…

I don’t think ever played a game like Outer Wilds before. It’s truly special. The central conceit is that you’re a member of alien NASA on a mission to do space-archeaology in your solar system. The…

Probably over a year ago, the song M.T.A. by the Kingston Trio came on and it sounded really familiar, but I couldn’t place why. Given that I’ve recently moved to the Boston area I figured I’d give…

Not sure when I acquired this game but it’s free on Steam and I never actually played it. Really charming little heist game. The narrator adds a lot of drama. I especially loved the bit where you…

Bioshock made me want to check out Fallout 2 next, and I had a really fun time. Fallout 2 is in my backlog as opposed to Fallout because I played the first game yeeears ago and was really turned off…

The entire time I was playing Bioshock I could not stop comparing it to Bethesda’s Fallout games. The faux-1950s aesthetic shared by both games is too similar to ignore. Both have you exploring…

Pikuniku was fine, but I felt like the cuteness of the graphics and music and animations and character design didn’t make up for the relative lack of substance. The platforming is kind of janky in a…

The second book club game! Firewatch is a work of art that I don’t want to talk about without spoilers, so don’t click read more if you haven’t played the game. IF you haven’t played Firewatch, I…