Cozy Land (Switch)
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Posted on April 14th, 2025 by
Earlier this year I reviewed a game on Switch that let you design your own room. Then a few weeks later I reviewed another one that let you design your own shop. And now you can design your own street corner with Cozy Land on Switch.
Ringo’s Roundup (Switch, PC)
Posted on April 9th, 2025 by
Ringo is a bunny who happens to also be a postal worker. Help him drive around collecting all the letters and returning them to the mailbox in this puzzle game for Switch and PC (reviewed on Switch here).
Unplugged: Baldur’s Gate Minis FTW
Posted on April 8th, 2025 by
The WizKids line of role playing game miniatures is back. After releasing a set celebrating the past 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons, they have now just released a line featuring people and creatures from the popular Baldur’s Gate 3 videogame. Last summer saw the release of a 50th Anniversary set which is fun from a nostalgic collector’s standpoint, but I think the Baldur’s Gate 3 set is the best set I’ve seen in a long time. One of the drawbacks to randomly assorted miniatures is the need to create many different things in order to offer up something new in each box. This can result in opening up a box to find rather specialized miniatures that may be hard to casually work into a game. Both of these sets specialize in the common sorts of creatures one might find in an everyday game of D&D. A half-crystal elf from the far realm (I made that up, feel free to rip it off, Wizkids) may look really cool as a mini, but just how many times am I going to be able to work that into my adventure? With the Baldur’s Gate 3 release, most every box has something I know I’ll be using in the near future.
Akatsuki: Lord of the Dawn (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on April 7th, 2025 by
A long time ago, an evil demon king and his armies ransacked the land. When the demon king was defeated, the armies disbanded but there are some demon stragglers here and there. You play as a young man who just discovered his ancestry and is now a lord. So you must lead your troops into battle to rid the world of demons for good. Akatsuki: Lord of the Dawn is a unique combination of deckbuilding, simple action battles, and hexagonal board style strategy. It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Switch, PS4, PS5)
Posted on April 4th, 2025 by
There are many toy lines that came out in the 80s when I was a kid that are still popular today. Some examples would be Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, etc. Another example that I didn’t know was still around until recently was Care Bears. That was huge when I was a kid, and they had lots of toys, plush, several cartoons, and even some movies! I think even I saw the first Care Bears movie when I was a kid (I remember it being surprisingly dark), and that movie even made more money than the Disney cartoon film it was competing against (granted that Disney movie was The Black Cauldron, but still). Now Care Bears are making a comeback and late last year I reviewed a 2D platformer starring the bunch. And now they have a new installment featuring an assortment of arcade style mini-games. Care Bears: Unlock the Magic is available on Switch and PlayStation consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.
Bubble Ghost Remake (Switch, PC)
Posted on April 2nd, 2025 by
When I was a kid, one of my favorite stores to go into in the mall was Babbages. I don’t think they’re around anymore, but they were kind of like a precursor to GameStop. They sold video games but mostly computer software and stuff. I didn’t really buy too many computer games then, but I still liked to look at the boxes because that’s how we found out about games before the Internet a lot of times. One of the game boxes that caught my eye was Bubble Ghost. It had two things I liked in games: bubbles (like in Bubble Bobble) and ghosts (like in Pac-Man). But I never got around to buying that game. Not sure why. Maybe it was too expensive and I didn’t think it was worth the money. A few years later they made a version of it on the Game Boy, but I never got around to buying it either. There were a few years as a kid that I didn’t buy a whole lot of Game Boy stuff, and I don’t really remember seeing it in a store anyway. So I never got to try Bubble Ghost. So that’s why I’m glad that I got to review this remake. It adds fancy hand drawn graphics and new levels and gameplay ideas. Basic gist is that you are a ghost and try to blow a bubble around obstacles and keep it from popping. Bubble Ghost Remake is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.
S. Prysm Destroyer (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on March 31st, 2025 by
Pilot a mech and mow down robots with streams of bullets while you collect power-ups in S. Prysm Destroyer. It’s an anime inspired 2D run and gun platformer available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Hot Rod Mayhem (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on March 26th, 2025 by
Race hot rods on crazy tracks in this cartoony kart game! It’s available on all current consoles and PC but reviewed on Switch here.
3D Don’t Die, Mr. Robot (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on March 24th, 2025 by
Several years ago I reviewed a game called Don’t Die, Mr. Robot. It was a simple arcade style game where you controlled a square robot and avoided enemies while collecting fruit and coins and chaining explosions. And now they’ve made a 3D version of it. It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Games!
Posted on March 21st, 2025 by
So we all know that Wallace and Gromit have had lots of stop motion clay adventures on the small and big screen. But did you know they’ve had quite a lot of video games, too? They’re both old and recent and cover a wide variety of genres, too! So to end Wallace and Gromit Week, I thought we’d go over all their video games here. And if there were/are any mobile games or browser games starring them, I won’t be going over those. Either I missed out on them or don’t feel like going THAT deep.
