Picking Up Steam 2026

To kick off the second year of gradually clearing out my massive Steam backlog, I wanted to do something similar

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Cooking can be a delicate art, and when you’re the only person working a restaurant with orders coming in fast,

In Greek myth, Sisyphus is a man who constantly defied death. Whether it was kidnapping the god of death that

The action in the martial arts game One Finger Death Punch is so simple to control that the game is

This year’s Picking Up Steam has been interesting for me not only because I get to see the rest of

The difference between a hero and a villain is more than just a point of view. While the hero will

One day at the Edgewood Home for Lost Children, the last remaining teacher left and never came back. While many

Every now and then a game designer seems to view the passivity of the tower defense genre was a problem

When a story says that the world fell to pieces, they don’t normally mean it as literally as Bastion. After

Brutal Legend has earned itself a bit of a reputation for how its gameplay format shifts the deeper in you

Quantum Conundrum’s dimension swapping puzzle platforming sounds like something with enough broad potential to define a game experience, but the

Torchlight seems like an action role-playing game made to appeal to two very different types of players. On one side

In many city builders, the player is given full control of how a city is laid out. It’s an awful