Replica : A Little Temporary Safety By: Zero Rock Entertainment (SOMI) My experience with SOMI's surveillance game, Replica, has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. I was really looking forward to the game when I first heard about it and was disappointed when it turned out that mobile players would have to wait longer for it than PC players would. Then, when I finally got my hands on the game, it…
YANKAI'S TRIANGLE By: Kenny Sun Kenny Sun's YANKAI'S TRIANGLE is a very simple puzzle game. Perhaps under different circumstances, I might have found it too simple and deleted it after a few minutes. But instead, I played through over three hundred levels in less than twenty-four hours and still keep going back to it. I can't stop. And since there's effectively an infinite number of randomly generated levels, I don't have to.…
Puzzlepops! Trick or Treat By: Layton Hawkes Puzzlepops! was one of my favorite puzzle games this year, so when developer Layton Hawkes sent me an advanced copy of the Halloween-themed sequel, Puzzlepops! Trick or Treat, I dropped every other game I was playing to dig in. Even though I had plenty of other games I was enjoying, for two days I played nothing else until I completed it. I suggest reading my…
That Dragon, Cancer By: Numinous Games I was curious about That Dragon, Cancer back when it first released on PC. I read up on it a bit, but not enough to spoil the whole experience. I knew it was made as a tribute by Ryan and Amy Green for their young son, Joel, who lost his four-year battle with cancer. I'm not actually afraid of a game offering a depressing, gut-wrenching experience.…
Burly Men at Sea By: Brain&Brain Burly Men at Sea is a hard game to write about, mostly because anything I say will spoil some of the magic. I'm not sure how to convince you that it's worth experiencing without ruining part of the fun of discovering it yourself. So if you're already planning to pick up the game, maybe just do it and don't let me ruin it for you? If…
Dog Sled Saga By: Dan FitzGerald Although I'd been looking forward to Dog Sled Saga for quite some time, I didn't really know what the gameplay would be like. I just knew it was about racing a team of sled dogs. I like dogs (who doesn't?) and the pixel graphics made them look adorable, so of course I had to play it. It's been in development for a while, but thankfully the…
Twisted Lines Γò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£Γöñ Mind-twisting Puzzles By: Megagon Industries As many of you might know, I was a bit obsessed with Snakebird recently. I loved its hardcore puzzles that combined trial-and-error with strategy. I didn't know that much about Twisted Lines when I decided to buy it, but I was curious enough to check it out. While it does hold your hand a bit more than Snakebird does, it has quite a few…
KOMRAD By: Sentient Play LLC After playing and thoroughly enjoying Telltale Games' and Nightschool Studio's Mr. Robot text-based TV show tie-in game, I was excited about another interactive fiction game, KOMRAD, by Sentient Play. I don't play too many of these real-time games as I tend to forget about them or lose interest when I'm forced to wait hours for something to happen. I usually move on to other games that let…