DAN HILLMAN
Shovel Knight: King of Cards Review
Do you like playing cards, Retro video games? and dressing up like Thomas the Tank Engine? Well, if you, my friend, count this unlikely combination as your wish list, I have just the game for you. Let’s get clanking with Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Review (Switch)
Despite capital ships, fighters galore, and a well-established setting BattleStar Galactica has never really made the transition to video games. There have been efforts since the TI-994a back in the day, but generally, it’s been underwhelming. So In honor of its release on the Nintendo Switch let’s take a look at Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Review
Mario, Sonic, and their entourages are back to compete in the Summer Olympics. Quest through Tokyo to save Mario and Sonic from the latest scheme by Dr. Eggman and Bowser, or take control of your favorite character from either franchise and compete in single events.
Tiny Bang Story Review
Gnomes and asteroids come together in a surreal world whose puzzles and high production values will pull you in like a gaming equivalent of a pitcher plant. Once you are inside however you discover it’s not quite what you thought. See if you can escape from Colibri Game’s Tiny Bang Story.
Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw Review
Back in my day, games were actually fun and well coded, oh yeah, and get off my lawn! If you are nostalgic for the 1990s, 1993 precisely then this is your lucky day. Take a trip back to the days of Wing Commander with Double Damage’s Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and game like they did when memory and hard drives were measured in chickens, I mean megabytes.
Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble Review
Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble; a sequel to 2017’s Tiny Metal, is in some ways just another “arcade war game” reminiscent of Nintendo’s Advance Wars, and “just another sequel” in others. But it’s also much more. If you like anime characters in ridiculous costumes, poorly synced voice-overs and a pleasant surprise in the form of an enjoyable war game, then this is the game for you.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Review
Twenty years ago, Crash Team Racing beat Mario Kart at its own game, its well-designed courses, power-sliding mechanics, and relative lack of catch-up items or mercy of any sort for its players make it a game that deserves to be remembered. Today its modern clone once more charges forth to challenge Mario. Will it once again show Nintendo the folly of battling a Bandicoot or has it been left in the dust by 20 years of Mario Kart evolution?
Scrap Review
Jump faster and learn patterns to find your way to freedom. But it's easy, each level is harder than the one before and SCRAP keeps getting faster. If you like old-school running games Scrap might be worth looking at.
Draugen Review
Fans of paranoid schizophrenia, spooky settings and literal graveyards worth of fresh corpses take note Draugen has landed. This Beautiful psycho-thriller set in an isolated Norwegian fjord during the 1920s has plenty to offer as well as a few things to consider.
Battle Worlds: Kronos Review
If classic turn-based Strategy is your thing Christmas has come early in the form of Battle Worlds Kronos, the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, it’s an old school strategy game that will provide red-meat for most wargame fiends.
Rock of Ages II Review
Goofy, surreal and sometimes hilarious Rock of Ages II Bigger and Boulder is definitely a niche product although I wonder if I ended up on some sort of Federal Watch List just for playing it. If you like Monty Python, horribly imitated accents and crushing people with giant rocks this might just be the game for you.
Death end re;Quest Review
Enter “Worlds Odyssey” a virtual reality game of swords, sorcery and lingerie . Adding to the fun is the minor detail that death in game means death in real life. Fortunately, it can be hacked from the outside. If you like JRPGs, decapitation and having your brain trying to escape through your nose Death end re;Quest might be for you.
Heaven's Vault Review
Welcome to the Nebula, the futuristic home of a young Archaeologist who has discovered that an ancient world ending event may be about to re-occur. Will they be able to find the secret and save the world…uh, Nebula or will they be cast into centuries more of darkness. Take a look at Inkle’s Heaven’s Vault to find out.
Neo Atlas 1469 Review
Do you like exploration, trading, and scurvy (who doesn’t?) If so then read on and see if Neo Atlas 1469, the latest title in the long running series might be for you.
Braveland Trilogy Review
Are you tired of your village being raided? Do you like to stab people or magically drop flaming boulders on their head? If so The Braveland Trilogy might be for you. A well-executed, turn-based strategy game in the style of Heroes of Might and Magic that does everything correctly if not spectacularly.
Assault Android Cactus Review
If being surrounded, mobbed and torn to pieces by intelligent machines is your idea of a good time then Assault Android Cactus is just what you need. This intense single or multi-player shoot-em-up plays like a 1980s arcade game and keeps the pressure on until you prevail or fail.
Aground (PC) Review
Is your idea of a good time being stranded on a deserted island surrounded by hostile wildlife and of course mysterious human inhabitants with unknown agendas? If so Aground is for you. Aground is a progressive world builder with deceptively simple gameplay. Despite appearances, it isn’t just a building or crafting game. It has building, it has crafting but also throws in some RPG elements just to spice things up.
Riot: Civil Unrest
Time to fight the power or bash some heads; it’s your call. Play as the police or the angry mob in Leonard Menchiari’s Riot – Civil Unrest. An innovative simulation of several large scale historical civil disturbances provoked by a variety of groups and causes.
Bomber Crew (PC) Review
Are you a fan of aviation? Of history? Of watching cute cartoon people struggle against overwhelming odds and ultimately fail leading to their violent and untimely death? If so Rudder Duck’s Bomber Crew is just the thing to pass the time while you are waiting for Amazon to deliver that new bone saw you’ve been saving up for.
Swords & Soldiers Review (Nintendo Switch)
Today we are going to break out the poison darts and throwing axes for a bit of friendly skull-splitting with Swords&Soldiers for the Nintendo Switch a side-scrolling Real-time strategy game from Two Tribes’ and Ronimo Games.