There is something wonderfully ridiculous about the Serious Sam series. For years, the formula was basically this: put Sam Stone in front of an absurd number of aliens, give him enough ammunition to make a small country’s military nervous, and let him solve the problem with excessive firepower. Serious Sam: Shatterverse takes that familiar idea…
There’s something wonderfully unsettling about the way A Plague Tale universe keeps turning its smallest mysteries into something much bigger. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy takes that idea and runs straight into ancient mythology. Rather than simply continuing Amicia and Hugo de Rune’s story after A Plague Tale: Requiem, the game reaches backward to explore…
I’ve played enough Soulslikes to know when a game is hiding something behind a wall of vague dialogue, strange corpses, and NPCs who look like they haven’t slept in 400 years. Mortal Shell 2 does exactly that. But this time, I think there’s a much bigger idea underneath all the blood, cosmic horror, dead warriors,…
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit looks peaceful on the surface. You decorate a campsite, help friendly ghost bears, collect resources, and slowly watch the island come back to life. But after spending well over a hundred in-game days with these characters, it’s impossible not to realize that this isn’t just another relaxing life sim. Underneath all…
