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…

Groovy! I have mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, the graphics and animations are GORGEOUS. I love this game’s aesthetic, it’s well done and well suited to the genre. I really missed the…

So this one wasn’t in the backlog originally, but some of my friends started a “Video Game Book Club” and this was the first game! Donut County is basically inverse Katamari: you’re a racoon that…

Half Life surprised me with how immersive it is for a game that came out in 1998. Sure, there are barely enough polygons to go around, but the simple gameplay, uncluttered UI, and real-time events go…

This game is wonderful. I went in with basically 0 expectations and here were my reactions, in order: