Omaze (Playdate)
Omaze is a game of circles. Playing a tiny little orb yourself, you navigate through small mazes where each section
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Spanky’s Quest (SNES)
Spanky’s Quest is a bit of an odd eye-catching title, the name perhaps meant to make young players look twice
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One Piece: Burning Blood (Xbox One)
In the pirate adventure series One Piece, The Paramount War serves as a culmination of the build-up across hundreds of
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Neptunia ReVerse (PS5)
In the land of Gamindustri, there exist four nations: Lastation, Leanbox, Planeptune, and Lowee. Each one is protected by a
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Gearshifters (Switch)
Some game design ideas are too good to confine to one genre. For example, it’s fairly common to find role-playing
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Gravel (Xbox One)
Gravel isn’t a game looking to make waves. It has no major standout feature to draw eyes, and it has
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Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition (PS4)
Hollow Knight begins with a little bug falling down a long drop. Carrying a triangular sword called the Nail, the
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Ary and the Secret of Seasons (PS4)
It’s always tragic to play a game that doesn’t seem to understand where its strengths lie. Ary and the Secret
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite (PS5)
When it acts as a stealthy predator, a xenomorph can be a terrifying killer, its spear of a tail, acid
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Kid Chameleon (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Prior to the 1990s, many video games were short and simple enough that it wasn’t unusual to expect a player
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Stunt Race FX (SNES)
Racing games have been trying to believably present 3D gameplay almost since they started being made, and while technical limitations
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Demon Quest ’85 (Playdate)
Demon Quest ’85 is not an RPG, despite is deceptive efforts to position it as one. The game banner depicts
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Switch)
Besides the mainline Pokémon role-playing games, the most prolific video game series for the Pokémon franchise has been Pokémon Mystery
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Fire ‘n Ice (NES)
Fire ‘n Ice, also known as Solomon’s Key 2 since this game serves as a prequel to it, stars Dana
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Xbox Series X)
An issue that arises in many anime video game adaptations is an unwillingness to provide the proper context or details
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Snow White in Happily Ever After (SNES)
Filmation’s 1989 animated movie Happily Ever After holds a warm spot in my heart with the kind of nostalgia I’m
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Out of Gas (Game Boy)
Even if you have a well-designed game, if you don’t know how to sell it, it won’t find an audience.
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Earth Defense Force 2025 (Xbox 360)
Playing games that were set in the then-future in the year they take place in is often an amusing look
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Skully (PS4)
Skully is a little skull wrapped around a magical ball of clay. As you might imagine, he can’t quite do
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Echoic Memory (Playdate)
Echoic memory refers to the specific way our brains store incoming auditory information, keeping it in our memory for a
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The Elf on the Shelf: Christmas Heroes (PS5)
The Elf on the Shelf is one of the more recent Christmas traditions to have caught on rather well. The
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