Picking Up Steam: SteamWorld Dig (PC)
Even in a world full of steam-powered robots, someone’s got to do the digging for metal they’re made of, although
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Consoles
Picking Up Steam: Who’s That Flying?! (PC)
Back when my Steam account was young and the promise of affordable games was hard to resist I was always
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Picking Up Steam: Atom Zombie Smasher (PC)
In 2011, I finally downloaded the PC gaming platform Steam primarily because I had heard Team Fortress 2 was going
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Super Soccer (SNES)
The most interesting thing about Super Soccer is something that happened to it over 30 years after release. Included as
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Lord Winklebottom Investigates (Switch)
Slap a top hat, monocle, and an absurdly posh name onto an animal, and you have yourself a recipe for
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (PS3)
Even though the superheroes of DC Comics have found themselves in some truly brutal and violent situations, it’s still hard
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Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef (PS4)
In Warhammer 40,000, interplanetary wars are waged by a range of human and alien factions. To win this war, most
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The Hex (PC)
A space marine. A sorceress. A wastelander. A fighter. An animal mascot. And a faceless mystery. Six has-been heroes from
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Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight (3DS)
A sequel can be a chance to evolve on or expand a video game’s offerings and ideas, but when I
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Skies Above (Switch)
In Skies Above, whales known as Leviathans can swim through the air and even outer space with incredible ease thanks
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World’s End Club (Switch)
World’s End Club is a heartwarming, feel-good tale about the end of the world. While having the fate of humanity
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Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES)
Donkey Kong Jr. Math has both a solid idea for how to make math fun and perhaps the absolute worst
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Turok (PS4)
Turok’s origins date back to a comic book from the 1950s, but it seems the world at large really took
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Mario Party: Star Rush (3DS)
The Mario Party series presents a set of virtual board games supplemented by minigames, but simply adding extra activities between
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Leila (PC)
Social belonging is a powerful motivator and one that can unfortunately be at odds with being true to one’s self.
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Goodbye World (Switch)
Goodbye World is a remarkably ominous title for a game with such a friendly and cute cover, but it is
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Einstein’s Cats (PC)
When I was a kid, I came across a type of logic puzzle that I quickly adored but rarely could
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Spilled! (PC)
Cleaning games can often afford to be quite long, the gradual progress of the work part of the appeal. Seeing
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Mario Lemieux Hockey (Genesis/Mega Drive)
After a full month of taking a look at games that star Super Mario, many of which were sports titles,
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Month of Mario: Quality Time: Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch)
When the Super Mario Bros. games first hit the scene, they were trailblazers. Each new game was guaranteed to get
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Month of Mario: Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Switch)
Friends. Family. Even enemies. A person’s identity can be built up by these words that define not who you are
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