Silver Pines is a 2D survival horror game with light Metroidvania elements that immediately draws you in with its unique, almost rotoscoped visuals and thematic callbacks to pre-existing media like Twin Peaks, or one of my favorites, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

Order of the Sinking Star comes from puzzle game aficionado Jonathan Blow who, despite some questionable political opinions, has created some fantastic puzzle games in the past, with Braid and The Witness under his belt, which I assume has a very complicated buckle attached.

It’s ironic that in Garfield’s latest 3D platformer he finds himself trapped in a nightmare, as over the years most Garfield games have been a bit of a horror show.

On a seemingly weekly basis, the metroidvania genre tries its very best to outsaturate itself, with so many new entries in so little time that most of us probably couldn't beat them in our lifetimes. But no matter how crowded a genre like this gets, a truly interesting game in it is likely to get attention when it's as polished and fun as Well Dweller.

Early thoughts based on the first four hours of this musical indie RPG.

Trivia Murder Party III is not only the third entry in the franchise, but the first one released as a standalone, fully independent of the developer's traditional release format.

Kernel Hearts reeks of mediocrity throughout and, ironically, lacks any real heart.

By day, Blackwood is an exciting new third-person action game that promises to give you the chance to feel like a proper John Wick. By night, it’s a complete pile of trash that is so broken and boring that you’ll want to hire an assassin to put you out of your misery if you decide to spend any money or time on Act 1 of this game.

Shroom and Gloom is, well, gloomy, foreboding, hopeless, and dreadful; perfectly so, I should say. You may not know exactly how you’ve found yourself in these dark, thorny tunnels…but you’re absolutely positive that you need to get out now, now, right now.

If you’re looking to play WheelMates with a friend in the same room via 2-player splitscreen, you’re in for a great time, and I’m happy to tell you all about what that experience is like.

Despite its playful yet self-deprecating title, Yet Another Zombie Survivors isn't just that, and even though I'm not well versed in the genre, I was astounded by how much I enjoyed this game.

gunplay across branching paths and more than 10 unique levels packed with enemies, bosses, secrets, and even arena-style combat sections reminiscent of the All-Range Mode from the Star Fox series.

First - the obvious. Duskfade is gorgeous. The artists who made it clearly worked overtime, as every environment looks resolutely stunning and full of color. The animation work is also tremendous and makes this look and feel like the work of a major developer and not a small studio releasing their first title.

It's apparently fallen to an indie developer, Refugium Games, to pick up the mantle. And while Agefield High: Rock the School sounds like a name ChatGPT would come up with if you told it to impersonate Jack Black from the early 2000s, does the game underneath manage to fill the nostalgic shoes of its spiritual predecessor?

Replicant D6 is set to launch Agent 64: Spies Never Die this week, promising action-packed shootouts and gun-blazing espionage that takes us straight back to the '90s.

Akatori centers on Mako, a young girl wielding a magical staff and tasked with ending the toxic Amber Storms plaguing her world. This is no ordinary staff, either. Sealed within it is a magical bird, fittingly named Akatori. Hey, that’s the title of the game!

: Big Walk is exclusively a cooperative online multiplayer game. Absolutely no part of it aside from the tiny opening hub area is remotely playable with only one player, and couch co-op is intentionally not included for reasons that will become clear shortly.

What the hell is Truxton Extreme? No, it's not the name of Elon Musk's latest kid - good guess, though. Instead, it's a surprising new entry in a series many have likely never heard of: a shoot-'em-up arcade title known simply as Truxton (or Tatsujin in Japan, meaning “expert”).

For all the similarities Kusan shares with the game that inspired it, the story isn’t one of them. Developer CIRCLEfromDOT delivers an in‑your‑face narrative wrapped in gorgeous comic‑panel artwork, yet the substance underneath doesn’t quite keep pace.

Much like the original, Tormentum II doesn’t aim to reinvent the fleshy, alienesque wheel, so to speak.